The building begins in earnest

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

After all of the shop-scouring, penny-pinching and quibbling over precisely which CPU, GPU and PSU to buy, all my parts have finally arrived and I’ve begun to put my rig together – a process which, so far, hasn’t been fraught with problems. Although, saying that, I’ve probably just jinxed it, so I hope that my colleagues don’t use eBay and the Internet to come up with vastly superior machines.

My final shopping list – after taking suggestions from the helpful comments of Grimer, E and Ian Devlin, among others – looks like this:

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