Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions PC is DEAD. Please help

I promised to report back.

Keeping the above in mind, I wanted to come up with a robust PC that is capable of handling Vista (doing XP Home for now) when they get an SP or two under their belt. Got one of my buddies at work (major geek) involved and we went to work on Newegg putting the pieces together. The new PC:

- BIOSTAR TForce TF570SLI Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce AMD Motherboard (IDE and SATA)

- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Windsor 2.8GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor

- MSI NX8500GT-TD256E OC GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

- Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3500641AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

- LITE-ON 20X IDE DVD Burner

- MSI TurboStream MS-4500-020 ATX12V V2.2 500W Power Supply 115/230 V UL

- 4 GB = CORSAIR XMS2 DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Memory

- COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel, SECC ATX Computer Case

(Also installed a Pioneer DVR-108 DVD Burner from the previous PC)

My buddy put it together last night and is letting it burn in today. I’ll get it tomorrow. He tells me that I’ll have the fastest "old guy" computer on the block.

The good news is that the whole thing (with rebates and some free shipping) came in at about $675. I saw a similar PC (many of the same components) advertised in PCWorld for $1700.

Let me know what you think.