Face to face chassis

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

 My illegal WinXP machine reintroduced me to the dreaded Blue Screen of Death and crashed last week. I'm not surprised because deep inside my heart I know that every WinXP installation are bound to crash sooner or later because it's a hidden Microsoft's feature scheme to let you buy new M$ software every 2 months. And that's just genius. And evil.

Anyhow, like any seasoned WinXP user, I already mastered the kung fu of WindowsXP re-installation. It's an art form if you must. But unlike my previous installations, I decided to do some much needed upgrade. You see, my PC has been asking for a lot of juice and my current 350W PSU (powers supply unit) isn't up for a 2 DVD ROM ( the other is a dvd writer), a 7200RPM HDD, 2 auxiliary fans and a gigantic CPU Volcano fan setup. Sometimes i just have to remove one of those components to make my PC running.

Not only i need to upgrade the PSU, i also need a new housing for my PC. My PC chassis is not doing any help cooling the insides of my PC that i have to use my PC half open all the time. This is like driving a car without the hood or like running around half naked all the time or like Lito Lapid carrying a big-ass machine gun on his right hand and his intestines by his left. Not really ideal.

So I bought this chassis with 500W PSU and it came free with a PS2 keyboard and mouse and crappy speaker. It was a nice deal though. And after nearly 2 hours of CPU to CPU transplant, my machines up and running. And after reinstallation of WinXP (which I will discuss next), it's running smoothly and much better. Guess the temperature drop helped a lot.

Here's my newly "pimped" PC.