I've finally got a new computer system up and running. It feels so good. The old AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz system (yes, I know it's ancient) died on me sometime towards September of last year and since then I've been using the HTPC for my computer needs. Now since Tuesday, I once again have my own personal system to use.

I'll give the spec. of my old and new system just to show the differences in hardware I had.

Old:

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz

Generic PC-133 SD-RAM 384MB

Epox Socket A motherboard running a VIA chipset of some sort (I can't remember)

Fujitsu 40GB HDD

Leadtek nVidia GeForce MX440

New:

Intel Core i7 920 2.67GHz $390.00AUD (~$304.19USD)

OZC Flex-EX PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 C7 6GB $173.41AUD (~$135.25USD)

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P $322.00AUD (~$251.25USD)

Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB $78.00AUD (~$60.84USD)

Gigabyte GeForce 9600GT 512MB $60.00AUD (~$46.81USD)

So far the thing has been a joy to use. I don't plan on building a replacement in 3 to 5 years. So lets hope it'll last.