Shiny!

[beskippy]

I spent some time recently saving up in order to buy myself a computer upgrade.  About the only things I will be keeping are a 250GB ATA100 HD and my ATA DVD+-RW drive.  Everything else is going to be new.  A year ago I told myself that I would move to console gaming in the future, and wouldn't need a new computer for a long time.  But then I found EVE, and alas I am gaming on the PC once again.  Hopefully this machine will last me for a while;  my current budget box survived for 4 years with only a 6600GT added along the way.

• Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 (2.2 GHz, 2 MB cache)
• Arctic Cooling Pro 7 heatsink/fan
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA2 160GB HD (system drive)
• Antec Sonata III case, with included Antec Earthwatts 500W powersupply
• 2 GB OCZ CL4-4-4-15 DDR2-800 RAM
• HIS IceQ3 Turbo Radeon 3850 / 512 MB videocard

From the various reviews I have been reading, these components are also rather quiet, which will be a pleasant change from my current machine.  It has a lovely high-pitched whine (GPU fan, I think) along with a noisy powersupply and CPU HSF.  If I can tame the noise on this system, I will have to look at my wife's computer to see how I can shut it up as well.

Fingers crossed, it will hopefully be ready a few days after Christmas.  With luck I might get it on the 28th...