Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
As a result of PQBON.COM needing new hardware, Tonya got a new computer.
I had given her my P4 2.4GHz to replace her 900MHz Celeron. We replaced the harddrive and installed a new legal OEM copy of Windows XP. However, when toryn died I needed a system to replace it with quickly. I went to Fry's to see what I could do. I quickly realized that buying Tonya a new motherboard for Xeon's would be cheeper then buying a processor, motherboard, and memory for toryn. I decided that I would buy Tonya an Asus PC-DL Delux. I also bought her 1GB of 512MB dimms (I had 1GB of 512MB dimms and two 2.2 GHz Xeons ready for her). We later bought a GeForce 5700LE video card to complete the system.
I had gotten a new case for Christmas from my parents and hadn't done anything with it (I was going to put a duel Opteron in it since I have two Opterons sitting on my desk at work but I guess that will come later). Tonya assembled the case from scratch. We then added lights and fans. Then the harddrive, memory card drive, and CD/DVD burner. Finally, the motherboard and powersupply. The ATA cables and the powersupply cables are all ultraviolet sensitive. Four of the fans, and four of the cold cathode tubes are ultraviolet lights. There is one fan that isn't, it is a four color lighted fan and there is one cold cathode that is blue. The powersupply is partially acrylic and has two ultraviolet blue fans in it.
The closest thing we had to a "problem" was getting the top fan installed. We could have left it out and put in just a wire grill and let convection be responsible for the airflow out the top instead we choose to mount the fan out side the case on top. We were put to these choices because the power intruded into the location the fan was supposed to occupy.
Here are some pictures...
