New Rig

With AMD having reduced the prices on their processors, I thought I'd treat myself to a few new components. I could have gone the way of the Conroe chips as they are seriously kicking butt in the benchmarks department, but I decided to stick with AMD due to my limited budget.

These are the things that I got:

• A Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard
• A Zalman CNPS9500 AM2
• An AM2 X2 4400+ CPU
• A Seagate 300GB SATA harddrive
• 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 memory chips (had to go a bit low on this one, the DDR2-800 was a bit too steep in price for me)
• 2 x 7600 GS SLI video cards (again budget issues)

As for my old rig, I will use that as a proper Linux box seeing I have running Ubuntu as a virtual machine.

Here's a few piccies of my new setup: