Computer Upgrade time

{Edits added to translate technospeak into JanaSpeak to help regular people understand the significance of this upgrade.}

It has been nearly 4 years { that was Season 2 of "24"} since my last major computer upgrade. I am currently running an Athlon 2500+ on a ECS Nforce2 board (this combo was a $99.99 Fry's special back in the day) with a Nvidia 6800 graphics card. The machine is decent but rather slow by today's standards. {Think of this as popcorn shrimp at Red Lobster. Decent and will fill you up but you aren't going to blog about that meal.} Also, the motherboard has been acting flaky lately so i figure it was time for an upgrade.





New parts are MSI P6N SLI motherboard with the nvidia 650i chipset. Processor is the Intel Core 2 Duo E4300. Heatsink is the Rosewill RCX-Z775- EX (they might as well add Deluxe Turbo SuperFun to that long-ass name). The videocard is a Sapphire ATI X1950XT based graphics card. 2GB of Crucail ballistix RAM rounds out the upgrade. The E4300 runs at 1.8ghz stock and paired with the MSI board and the rosewill cooler, I am expecting to hit 3.0 ghz via overclocking the FSB. {Think of overclocking as ordering 2 shrimp tempura rolls at Kyoto's, and they decide to give you 4 rolls at no extra cost.}