Blog: Building a Computer

Building a Computer - Saturday, June 9, 2007

Priscilla's parents have been in need of a better computer for a while, and since I'm supposedly in the know, they recruiting me to build one. I got to pick the parts and they're going to reimburse me. I ordered pretty good components based on the massive amount of video editing that they do. The specs are as follows:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor, 2.4GHz
2x 1GB Kingston DDR2-800 RAM
EVGA GeForce 7100GS (midrange graphics card, since they don't need a good one for games)
MSI P6N Platinum motherboard
320GB Seagate SATA hard drive, perpendicular recording
2x Pioneer DVD/CD writer
Antec Sonata II quiet case
Hanns-G 199D 19" LCD monitor

The total came out to just over $1k, but I think it's a good investment for how it will expedite the amount of computer work they do. Now I just need to get them a copy of Windows and we're all set.