Gaming Computer

Monitor:	Samsung SyncMaster 900NF
Case:	Antec Plus880 with 430W TruePower PS
Procesor:	Pentium IV 2.26GHz Northwood B
Mainboard:	Gigabyte 8iHXP
Memory:	2 Kingston PC1066 256MB RDRAM DIMMs
Video Card:	nVidia GeForceFX 5600 128MB
Sound Card:	Creative Audigy with IEEE1394 port
Speakers:	Koss Headphones
Network Card:	Intel 10/100 Pro
Keyboard:	Mitsumi PS/2 keyboard
Mouse:	Logitec B69 Optical Mouse
DVD-ROM Drive:	NEC 8x DVD Burner
CD-RW Drive:	ACER 52x32x52 Burner
Hard Drive:	Western Digital "Special Edition" (8MB cache) 80 GB
Operating System:	Dual Boot Windows 2000 with SP4 and FreeBSD 4.9

Other Notes:
May 2004
In the last couple of months I've added a new GeForce FX video card, NEC DVD burner and ACER CD-ROM burner.
Feb 8, 2003
XFree86 looks awsome now that nVidia has released a driver for FreeBSD. Good job nVidia!

September 18, 2002
Now that I have my monitor I installed XFree86. It looks like crap. The text is all messed up, especially in interactive terminal programs like pine. I think the GeForce4 card is too new for the nv video driver that comes with XFree86.
The audigy is also too new for FreeBSD. I will have to buy a driver from opensound.com or wait until the FreeBSD developers get around to implementing it.

August 12, 2002
I ran into problems with a company called EMS Computing while building this system. They seemed like a good company when I bought from them, but that same month (almost to the day I ordeded from them) they crashed and burned. Since I ordered from them they turned off thier "live chat", stopped responding to emails and changed thier phone system so you can't talk to anyone. I ordered the case, a surge protector, the memory and the monitor from them. They took thier sweet time (20 days) shipping my order even though thier web site claimed everything was in stock. Of course when it all arrived I discovered that the monitor was defective.
They were nice enough to pick the monitor up and spare me the $50 expense of shipping it back to them. However, they picked up the monitor on July 17th and it took them until Sept 8th to ship me another one.
Needless to say, I won't be buying from them again.
I also had to RMA the memory, RMA the processor and have the motherboard tested before I could get the system to sucessfully POST. I actually got a bad processor, but not bad enough to keep the motherboard from not POSTing.