WOOHOO!! It's ALIVE!!!!

[Wolverdick]

2am mountain time and the beast is online...windows loaded and now ts just a matter of updates and drivers. My first build a success, with some minor parts to upgrade later.

Went with a 32-bit WinXP pro with plans to upgrade later to WinXPx64bit version (when the bugs are out)

AMD Athlon 64 FX62 Socket AM2 CPU
Asus M2N-SLI-DELUXE Socket AM2 Motherboard
4 x Crucial Ballistix 1024MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz
XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 520M 1GB PCIe w/Dual DVI/HDTV
BFG PhysX Accelerator Card PCI
Aopen DUW DUW1616L PRO-ROHS 16X DVD Burner Int IDE
2 x Seagate 250GB Serial ATA w/NCQ 7200/8MB/SATA-3G
-RAID striped
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme
Thermaltake Tai-Chi Aluminum Case - Liquid Cooling
PPA 5 Port USB PCI Card

Aspire 680W Beast Alum Black PSU
-to be upgraded later cause it sux...
going with this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817103517

Need to get a Waterblock to fit my AM2 socket, but thats on the way...

Thanks for all the help and forum support!

Ill be loading it up with software, and then once the PSU is upgraded and the water block is on I may be looking to the forum to see what kind of overclock power i can expect from this mutha.

[Ob1]

you might as well go for vista 64 when that becomes bug free if there is such a thing as a bug free OS, so far im going with a big fat NO on that one.

[mojo]

You'll want to upgrade the BIOS for that motherboard if it came with the 2.x version. The latest release (3.7 I believe) seems to be working well for me. Before I updated the bios my system would crash weirdly after 2 days of being up. I have a memory card reader in one of the bays, and after 2 days the device would stop working, the sound would disappear on my computer, and it would not turn off by telling it to from windows, had to hold down the button. I tried ordering a new reader even though the one I had worked perfectly well for over a year on my old mobo, but the new one had the same problems.

Updated my BIOS and all is well. I had a 16 day uptime until I "had" to install 2 of seagates 320 GB perpendicular SATA drives.

[Cricket]

Congrats on the completion of your first build.

Cricket

[Wolverdick]

Thanks all. I did the mobo Bios update first, actually, to version 0307. Loaded the raid drivers and striped the arrays...then windows loaded without a hitch.
All my drivers are installed, Graphics running sweet...currently running at 1600x1200 on my HD 2035 monitor. Looks great and has max resolution of 2500x1500 or something like that. Installed the sound blaster card and Physx card and both are working great.
So far the PSU is giving steady and good voltage, but im still planning an upgrade.
Ethernet is strong and steady and all the windows updates are all complete, all in all, im very pleased!

Im sure it will be a while before a good 64bit OS is ready. Ive got XPx64 arriving on monday, but i doubt i will install it...ill be too busy playing with this baby...