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Building Better Computers

It seems there is a new holiday tradition in my household. This is now the third consecutive year I found myself piecing together the parts to build somebody a new “super computer”.

This year it was for my son’s best friend who was tired of the lag he encountered while playing games like World of Warcraft and Guild Wars on his aging “rent-a-pc”. So after getting Santa’s approval for the financing, we ordered the hardware to make his games fly and an uber leet box just for show.

We were both like little boys the day the package arrived. We purchased an Asus motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, 1 Gig of DDR2 RAM, Diablo X-Man tower, and an extra translucent fan to keep it cool. The harddrive and CD-ROMs were getting recycled from the old box to save some money.

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Ever wonder where PC’s go when they die ? They seem to end up at my place.

Some will call me a pack-rat, but I found I never need something… until it has been tossed out. Over the years, I have seemed to amass quite a collection of computers that have outlived their prime.

From a late model 386 (complete with a “turbo” button) to an early Pentium II that had succumbed to an early death. There is even a 5 1/4″ floppy drive in the one. Some of those pictured still work, while others have been gutted and put to use elsewhere.

Perhaps someday I should open my very own PC Museum.