Quad core, here I come!

  

So I broke down and bought some (probably unneeded) upgrades for my computer.  I have been eyeing this chip for a while now.  With such a good price, i thought it would be a good time to buy some (slightly outdated) technology.

Add in another $25 (!!!) for a second pair of 4GB RAM and I got a nice little upgrade.  My christmas vacation will consist of me:

• installing new CPU
  
• popping in 8GB of RAM
  
• formating hard drives
  
• installing Vista 64 bit
  

:)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3970768&CatId=3406

Jing Project

Probably the most useful tool on my PC.

http://www.jingproject.com

If you are not using it, you are missing out. :)

up all night..... sleep all day..

thats right.

ugh. i was up till about 12:30am building this damn computer.
not having done this before, i took my time & was very careful. while im sure this is easy to some, installing the CPU & heatsink was kind of a daunting task. I am just a 'tad' nervous that i did something wrong.

anyways, its basically all put together. i had to fix a few things & take everything out to change somethings. ugh. oh well, it looks nice. i still need to hook up power & sata cables to my hard drives... and instal my fan controller.

oh, and im still waiting on my nvida 8800gts video card. it should be there in the next few days (hopefully). i may plug in my old card tonight, to at least boot up & play around in the bios. we'll see how tired i am when i get home.