So, for christmas/b-day I got some monehs and decided it was time to upgrade the hardware.

Now I'm just waiting to get home where my package of guts should be waiting (got the case yesterday) to put it all together.

It really is about time too, I ordered the parts for my current/old machine in March of 05 and only added minor upgrades since (i.e. more hard drives, ram) so it really is due.

For those curious:

Old Machine:
AMD Athalon 64, 2.0GHz, Single-Core
ABIT AX8 MoBo w/ 1x PCI-e 16x, Gigabit LAN, etc.
NVidia 9600 GTX
~3GB RAM (can't remember)
2x 120mm Case Fans
2X 80mm Case Fans

New Machine:
AMD PhenomII X4, 3.0GHz, Quad-Core
ASUS M4N72-E MoBo w/ 2x PCIe 2.0 16x, 6 3Gb/s SATA, 6+6 USB
NVidia GTX 260 896MB/448-bit
4GB RAM (2x 2GB sticks)
2x 230mm Case Fans (1 that glows red)
1x 200mm Case Fan
6X 120mm Case Fans (5 that glow red)
And a HUGE CoolerMaster Case

I'm using my more recently replaced PSU (750w), my old hard drives (4x 150GB SATA, 1x 120GB PATA), and my 16X DVD-R drive. Would have a second CD drive but I'd rather have the HDD since I've only one PATA on this MoBo.

Eventually I plan to double the RAM (at least), get a second GTX 260 for SLI, and probably a second PSU to avoid getting a 1200w one to run this thing, yeah.. my case is built for two PSU's :P