Team,
In May of 2006, one of my Buddies at work asked me to help him with a new box. He's really keen on having only good tech inside (bragging rights) so we spec'd it out. (I don't know why is Jim telling us all this crap... I'll get to it...)
We went with an Antec P180 Mid Tower Case, which is constucted with insulated panels like a Fridge => hence it's name and that of it's successors... It's very, very quite. In my opinion still the best case out there!
Installed in the case:
1- Asus P5N32 SLI Deluxe Motherboard
2- Intel Pentium D 950 3.4 GHz S775 800 Mhz with 4 MB Cache
3- Antec True Power II 550 Watt PSU
4- 2 X Kingston 1024 MB PC4200 533 MHz DDR2 RAM
5- Panasonic Floppy Drive
6- BenQ1655 16X Lightscribe DVD+/- RW Burner
7- LG SuperMulti DVD Rewriter GSA-H54N
8- 2 X 250 GB SATA2 Segate Hard Drives
Eventually it had some misc. stuff => a couple Sliders with more HDs, and a Video Card, Asus TV Tuner Card, and a Pinnacle Video Capture Card.
We finished configuring it at my office in my spare time. It was a great Box but the Motherboard died prematurely last June. We took it apart and got it ready to send to Asus. My Buddy checked out his home but couldn't find the Reciept.
We kept bugging him all summer, and fall. In about September we started Fridge 3 (see
http://forum.optical-edge.net/showth...ghlight=Fridge for Fridge 2 see
http://forum.optical-edge.net/showth...ghlight=Fridge ) and he started asking me if I wanted to build a new Box for me from the reminants of The Fridge.
So after a couple of months, just after my Motherboard died (see
http://forum.optical-edge.net/showthread.php?t=7749 ) he asked me again so I said, "Make me a Deal. What are you wanting to part with, and what do you want for it?"
He wanted to keep Items 6, 7, & 8 as well as the misc. stuff and trade all 1-5. He asked me to supply a Western Digital 250 SATA2 Portable Notebook HD in a Case that connects via USB. They had just come into Costco, and so that night I bought it for ~$160 and gave it to him the next day and took the debris home that afternoon from work.
The next day (Saturday), I'm out and about and I get a Text message from him (I hate Text messages on my Cell phone but that's another story...) saying his wife just found the receipt for the MB. So on Monday I ask him what he wants to do. He says he doesn't think I'd want to wait for the RMA to return the MB and I said., "Make me a Deal", what do you want.
He said he didn't want money but wanted to get 2 X 2 Gig Corsair DDR2 Memory for Fridge 3 so XP 64 would have 6 Gigs Total. It was on Sale @ NCIX, with rebate, it would net at $106. I said you buy it and I'll give you $106 but I'll want the BenQ DVD Burner as well. He agreed.
A couple days later he said he'd spec'd different faster Corsair RAM and the Net was now $135. I said okay but now I want the LG Burner & Asus TV Tuner. He said ok but he wants me to try to recover the photos and stuff off the 2 HDs as they were configured as a Striped RAID. I agreed.
So the Motherboard is supposed to ship back tomorrow => Ground from Indanapolis => who ships small stuff on the ground!! We shipped it Fedex Air to them!! I asked what they did and the clerk said they don't get the report until after it shipped. She did advise it could be repaired, or replaced with rebult or new. I'll just have to wait.
My buddy is looking hard at doing 2 of
XFX GeForce 8800GTS 650MHZ 512MB 1.94GHZ DDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDCP HDTV Video Cards (or similar). If so I'll grab his "old" nVidia 7900 Card. We'll see
I'll keep you posted as to how this works out.
The Fridge is a Phoenix
Re: The Fridge is a Phoenix
) if he could get one of the DVD burners back, as one he had at home (not in Fridge 3) died last night. He also wants the Asus card to try in Fridge 3 under XP 64. Of course I said yes 
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Today a request for another Warranty RMA for the Asus P5N32 SLI Deluxe Motherboard went in to Asus.
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so I retired it a couple weeks back.
so it's out with the old, and in with the new.
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