My current PC is a hodgepodge of upgraded parts from the original I built in 2002. The only thing original in it is the 24/12 CDRW and the DVD drive. Even the case is new, but none of it happened at once so I still consider it to be all upgraded. I had a SWEET Antec case that I painted metallic blue and silver, with black inside and a DIY window with blue cold cathodes (before windows and lights were too common), as well as 3 extra fan holes I cut in it. This was back when all cases came with 1 fan hole and in any color you wanted, so long as it was beige. But that case has since been replaced with a smaller black one. The silver-painted drives still look great in it though
Original:
Athlon XP 1800+ (THE FASTEST at the time)
2x256 cheap DDR 1, pretty good at the time
GeForce3 TI 200, second best at the time
C: 20 GB HDD, who needed more, LOL?
Brand spankin new Windows XP
Current: (upgraded over 2 year period so not everything matches, last upgrade was about 5 years ago)
Athlon XP 2700 running at '3000' clock
1x512 Corsair 2700, THE BEST available at the time, and who needed 1 GB RAM, LOL
Radeon 9800+ Pro, paid big bucks because it was THE BEST, but still cost less than half of what a top end card costs nowadays.
C: 60GB, D: 120GB.
I've had 3 Motherboards, the 2nd died in an unfortunate DIY watercooling experiment (consisting of an old heatsink, some aluminum sheet metal, a garden pond pump, a random automobile heater core and a lot of JB Weld, which anyway, resulted in a voltage regulator on the mobo desoldering itself and exploding. Ooops. I KNEW I should have leak-tested that thing better. I also have 3 spare Athlon XPs laying around, only 2 of which actually work, due to the aforementioned watercooling incident.
I realize I need to upgrade, unfortunately I am much more strapped for cash these days and cannot afford to buy 4 CPUs, much less experiment with watercooling

By the time ETW comes out however, I will have a brand new PC. 'Stimulus package' here I come! And there goes the $ straight to Taiwan
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