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Well, last friday, (severals days after tropical storm Cindy, but 2 days before Dennis) we had a minute flicker in the electricity to our house. Keep in mind that when Cindy came through, the power went on and off several times for that day and the next 2 days. That one little flicker killed my motherboard on my server!!! I was so pissed that day. I had been writing a midterm paper on my server. But I got it back. (It helps having like 5 or so other computers in the house)

Now, I figure I'm going to just upgrade my work/gaming computer and pass down the parts. Here's what I'm going to order tomorrow:
AMD 3000+ 64bit (Venice core)
Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra 939 motherboard
Patriot 1 gig of ram (two 512 sticks)

totals to about $370 with shipping from NewEgg.

I have already installed a similar setup in a friend of mine's computer. His had the same processor, but the cheapest model 939 Gigabyte motherboard and a cheap set of ram (Corsair). His went extremely well, so I'm sticking with the Gigabyte/Venice core 939 setup.

that sucks... atleast you got your paper back and you get a sweet computer :P

The computer is pretty cool so far. The only thing I don't like about Gigabyte mobo's is that they don't really give you expert adjustments like my Abit boards have. But it is a good motherboard.

I just got everything up and running this morning finally. I still need to reinstall XP on my server and get that back going.

I added a 250 gig hdd to my server for my family to use as a local storage. BEFORE I had added that hard drive, between my two computers, I had 700 gig's of space; add 250 to that. I need to stop buying hard drives.

So, the specs of my workstation/gaming computer:
3000+ 64bit AMD Venice core
Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939
Patriot 1 gig of ram (two 512 sticks)
447 gig raid (striping) array (three 160 gig hdd's)
Albatron 4800se 8x agp geforce 4

my server now has:
1900+ AMD Athlon
Abit MAX-2 mobo
512 MB ram
470 gigs (two 30gig's in raid striping array, one 160 gig hard drive, one 250 gig hard drive)
crappy Eos video card
other basic necessities

I didn't realize just how much space I had. yikes