New Box in the Hizzouse.

Hey y'all,

Well, Liz and I spent all last night putting together my new computer. All the parts had come in yesterday afternoon, so we spent the evening doing computer surgery in our basement.

For the most part, it went pretty well. We took quite a but of time checking out the motherboard and all the jumper settings and conenctions. All in all, I was pretty impressed with the motherboard. Things were labeled well and, for the most part, were pretty accessible (as far as motherboards go, that is).

There was only really one hiccup to the whole assembly process. I seem to be short one cable - the one that connects the CD-ROM drive to the sound card. It's not horribly essential but, without it, I can't play audio CDs on my computer. I suppose I'll have to try to find one of these cables...I wonder if Best Buy even carries such a thing.

Upon powering the beast up, I was very happy to see that all the fans were running and there was a distinct lack of smoke. Despite 5 internal fans (power supply, case, processor, northbridge, video card), this computer is very quiet. I suppose it didn't hurt that I spent a little extra to get a nice heatsink/cooling fan for the processor. Once I closed up the case, you could barely tell the thing was running. I set my BIOS settings and rebooted to install Windows. It went remarkably well.

So, now that I've got Windows on there, my box is up and running. I installed a few goodies last night (Yahoo! Messenger, Google Toolbar, Firefox, and City of Heroes). By the time I got that stuff on there, it was already quite late. Nonetheless, I did fire up City of Heroes for a bit just to check it out. I couldn't help but laugh - it looks like a whole new game. It's so sweet. I can't wait to get some time to play on it.

Liz took some pictures of the whole assembly process but I haven't had the time to get the pictures of the camera yet. Hopefully, I'll have those up soon.

Anyway, that's my update for now. Catch y'all later.