Last update :- 29 April 2010

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• Amstrad CPC6128
• Venturing Into PC's
• First Homebuilt
• Overclocking
• Duron 800@1066
• Athlon 1000@1466
• Athlon XP 2600+
• Athlon XP 2600+ @ 2412
• May 2003 to October 2007
• Core 2 Duo - The Parts
• Core 2 Duo - The Build
• Core 2 Duo - The Overclock
• Laptops & Specials

May 2003 to October 2007

I've just looked at the date I put down for the XP2600+ system and realized I had built that way back in May 2003. Given my past history building computers you may have thought I was slacking in not upgrading regularly. Well, I have been upgrading fairly regularly in the last 5 years but couldn't really make the time to document it all.

At present I've opted for a system based around an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor - my first dual core system. Before I go into that in detail, the highlights of the systems I built in the period between May 2003 and October 2007 are presented below in chronological order.

• 27/1/2004 - Althon XP3000+ System
  • AMD Athlon "Barton" XP3000+ 333FSB (Socket A) - 2.17GHz
  • Abit NF7 v2.0 SktA
  • Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI
  • ThermalTake Aquarius II Water Cooling
  • Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 40GB 2MB
  • Existing memory, case, PSU, CD-RW and ATA adapter from XP2600+ system
• 29/9/2004 - Athlon 64 3500+ System
  • AMD Athlon 64 3500+ S939 512Kb 130nm
  • MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum-54G Mainboard S939
  • TwinMOS PC4300 TwiSTER DDR 512MB CL3
  • Thermaltake Bigwater Water Cooling
  • Thermaltake Tsunami Dreams VA3000SWA (Silver Window)
  • Aerocool Aeropower II+ Acrylic-Titanium Plated 450W
  • Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 80Gb OEM ATA/133
  • LITEON 12X DVD+R & 8X DVD-R AND RW
  • Akasa Fan Controller Junior 3.5"
• 11/4/2005 - Upgrades
  • Viewsonic VX912 19" LCD, 12ms 500:1, DVI/Analogue
  • Maxtor DiamondMax 21 250GB STM3250820AS SATA-II 8MB Cache
  • Logitech Optical TrackMan Wheel Trackball USB Mouse
  • Logitech UltraX Keyboard USB
  • Logitech Wingman RumblePad USB Force Feedback Game Pad
• 20/10/2006 - Core 2 Duo E6600 System
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 4MB, BOXED w/fan
  • ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP - Socket LGA775 for Intel - Chipset Intel P965 - ATX
  • 2 x GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
  • MSI GeForce 7900GTO 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI TV Out PCI-E
  • 2 x Samsung SyncMaster 940BF 19" LCD, 2ms 700:1, DVI/Analogue
  • Hiper 580W, Modular, ATX 2.2, 12 Device con., SATA, APFC, Silent
  • Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 - 250 GB - 7200 RPM - 16 MB - SATA II
  • Watercooling:- Thermaltake BigWater 735, 12cm Liquid Cooling System
• 5/2/2007 - Change of motherboard
  • Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4, P965, Socket-775, Firewire, ATX, GbLAN, DDR2, 2xPCI-Ex16
• 14/10/2007 - Current system

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