Well as I mentioned on the NCIX forum a week or so ago I’ve been using a Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPU and a 9700pro in my work system since I started at the company. I did get a RAM upgrade about 8 months ago and that was kewl, but it’s time for an overhaul. Here are the before shots:

So I requested some hardware for my upgrade, and let’s just say it came through. Here are some of the highlights:

I had to promise I wouldn’t spend too much time gaming on this machine though :p

The initial plan was to use an Intel box heatsink and my old Enermax power supply, but as you can see in my before picture, the PSU I had in my system before isn’t enough to handle a quad core (Q6600) and crossfire system. The PSU had to go. I ended up changing a couple other things along the way such as the CPU heatsink (grabbed one from a Core 2 Extreme Q9650) and hard drive (now using SATA! W00t), but here’s the final result in boy light and dark.

Now that it’s done I’m going to get it up and running for the NCIX Folding Team as soon as possible. I fold under the name Closet Gamer.