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Old Aug 17, 2006 | 07:04 PM
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I'm not a gamer no, don't really need it at all, just fancied it

I use the PC mainly for a bit of web development work, and notepad isn't exactly cpu intensive!

It's currently just a baby spec;

Athlon XP2500 (overclocked to the XP3200, ie, just turn the FSB to 200mhz)
AOpen crappy motherboard
512mb PC3200 ram
200gb IDE disk
Lightscribe DVDRW

Nothing special at all, will probably upgrade to a Pentium D 805 (dual core 2.66ghz - as again, just turning the FSB up will give you 4ghz on both cores!) sometime in the near future, wanted to get the cooling/rest of it sorted beforehand though.

The Vapochill case was around £500 new, I picked mine up on eBay for £130

Only other thing I needed was a new power supply as the compressor is 12v. The decieving thing is, most of the 500-600W PSUs are no good for the job, as they have dual 12v rails, only able to supply ~15A on each.

Got an XPro 460W power supply, as although the overall wattage seems low, it's only got one 12v rail, supplying a massive 30A!!!

So apart from the new PSU, it didn't need anything else
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