Face to face chassis

 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.