My first build

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James Prine
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My first build

This was my first build finally found a pic of it. It was an Intel quad core Q9400 LGA 775 from a Dell desktop that my dogs chewed the USB cable up and fried the motherboard. That was the start of me building computers and overclocking. I modified the case a bit added a bigger side window with 2 fans and etched flames into the plexiglass then lite it up with 2 different LEDs one red and one blue. Cut the front of the case out to fit a 140mm and a skull grill with a red enermax tb apolish fan. Installed the CPU into a Intel extreme motherboard with Patriot sector 5 memory. The first game I got for it was battlefield bad company. The OS was Windows Vista which I liked compared to Windows 98 which was the OS that was on a junk gateway computer we unfortunately bought. Gateway I believe was the cow patties of computers had 2 of them and both were junk crashing all the time, slow and optical drive failing. Oops sorry about the rant.
Color(s): Blue Red
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Case Mod
Cooling: Air Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build

Hardware

CPU
$ 12.88
Intel - Q9400
Socket: LGA 775
Cores: 4
Motherboard
Intel - X79 Motherboard (discontinued)
Chipset: X79
Size: ATX
Memory
$ 79.95
Graphics
MSI - N460GTX Hawk
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 460
Storage
$ 36.17
Seagate - Barracuda (ST3500418AS)
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 500 GB
PSU
$ 118.02
Antec - True Power Trio TP3-650
Wattage: 650
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: none
Case
NZXT - Guardian 921RB
Type: Super-Tower
Side Panel: Acrylic
Case Fan
Enermax - T.B.APOLLISH Red
Size: 120 mm
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