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I like the silver one. So stylish... and blue LEDs. When you are not trading you can look at the blue LEDs... and be mesmerized... :D

These chipsets are beautiful... All these I/O functions... dealing with keyboard, moust, parallel port, floppy drive, Ethernet, etc... used to be separate cards that you install on a computer. Now the processor chip maker (i.e. Intel versus the other guy LOL)... has integrated these...

Oh boy..... You can keep the Corona and I will take the rest... :D

Yap I agree. There is no onboard video for the ASUS card. Besides the socket (LGA 1155 - for i5-2600k processor), you need to look at the chipset of choice for the motherboard. The Gigabyte and ASUS boards are different. One is P67 and one is Z68. From this page...

It seems that the technical details from the newegg site were unclear, or even perhaps wrong. I always check for the details from the manufacturer's site instead of relying on the retailers. Sometimes their clerks may have transcribed information incorrectly. From the Gigabyte site...

Give yourself a big pat on your own back Tiki. I just skimmed through the book "How To Buy A Trading Computer" mentioned in another thread. EZCOMPUTER posted their savings: You have built yourself a machine with similar performance at... what was the cost again? :) Good job! And...

I don't know either. I love those pimp LEDs. I should have picked up a case based on the flashing LEDs, blue and pink. Lovely. I would love to have a computer with LEDs flashing brighter and faster when the market is moving. So exciting. Dim and slow when the market is dead...

286 was a beautiful processor. It was much faster than 8086. The one I first learned how to write programs in assembly language. Those MOV commands... I miss them so much... *NOT*

The case is about as big as the original IBM XT computer. Albeit standing on its side. 5 1/4-inch floppy drive. 10MB hard disk. 640KB memory. :D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT

Oh that was some pressure! It overshadowed many times over my pressure of maintaining computers for a 500 agent call center for Monday morning... :D I think Tiki needs to negotiate a new contract with ET on advertisement dollars to supplement his electricty and Corona bills...

Don't get me started on these horror stories on installing hardware software. In my prior life I supported servers and desktops on 24x7 call centers, along with phone connections. Imagine coming in on a weekend upgrade and nothing seemed to work comes Sunday midnight the regular rush comes in...

Really? Wow! 1) Did the box "shut down" - meaning that it went through a regular sequence of a Windows shut down? Or it just crashed, died, blue-screened? 2) Was the Windows operating system installed by ibuypower.com? You know that the default Windows operating system configuration...

If I remember correctly LEAPup bought a box from ibuypower.com. He did put in the video cards himself, with his tech guru kind enough to double-check his work. :) Congrats Tiki your post has passed the 500 replies mark. This may be the longest thread in the hardware subforum.

It's the viruses eating away the electrons representing ET pages inside your computer.

Optical drive: Those DVD-RW drives are quite generic. I picked up all mine from Fry's... whatever they were promoting at the time. From $20 - $25. Here are what I got: LiteOn iHAS324 DVD-RW 24x; h/w: ATAPI iHAS324 Y ATA device TSSTcorp DVD-RW drive model TS-H653Q h/w: TSSTcorp...

So... are you ready to build your box this weekend? The impatient mind wants to know... :D Are you all set? These memories are getting more and more inexpensive these days. I still remember the days that a 128 MB SIMMS clip was over $100.

Should be alright. The monitor has both VGA and DVI. Can use either one to connect the monitor. From Samsung's site: http://www.samsung.com/ph/consumer/monitor-peripherals-printer/monitor/lcd-monitor/LS22PUZKFV/XP/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=specification If you get the Zotac...

This looks like a really good deal. Per the Passmark site, GeForce GT 220 ranks at 449, where GeForce 9500 GT at 352. Don't have any experience with Zotac. Hopefully a good card. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/common_gpus.html $20 each is really can't go wrong.

I think that is Scataphagos. I usually throw my money away at Fry's becaiuse I am IMPATIENT! :D

High pitch noise from a computer usually comes from moving parts. Inside a computer, typically it is the hard drive or cooling fan. If from the hard drive, it is a sign of impending failure and should take precautions.