The desktop I had before my new rebuild was a Dell Dimension 4550 that went through two motherboards and P4 processors and a hard drive. I used it for a good seven or so years until Windows 7 came out (odd numerology on that one). Then I decided one must rebuild. I rebuilt the case so it looks nicer and has new parts. Now, I decided that with Windows 8 and Grand Theft Automobile 5 will be coming out, one must rebuild.
And my rebuild will be essentially future proofing myself for a good five years at least; this is what I'm planning on right now: a new AMD APU quad core Trinity processor (might be overclocking it) with its Radeon 7000 series graphics chip in CrossFire with a Radeon 6990 (if I can flippin' find one and one built by ASUS
), probably 16 gigs of AMD built RAM as DDR3 is still rather dirt cheap than the last time I rebuilt my system, an ASUS mobo, a 128 gig SSD, eight 4 TB hard drives in RAID 5, two internal 2.5" hard drive bays, two external 2.5" ports, an external SATA connection for a 3.5" hard drive or my DVD drive that I'll be building an external enclosure for, a wifi card, a TV tuner, probably a dedicated RAID card, and to top it all off, the case is undergoing renovations so it looks even more sleeker, simpler, a little strange and totally different than anything out there (kind of like Windows 8
).
Aw yeah.