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document updated 17 years ago, on Dec 13, 2006
Case:   Silver Thermaltake Tsunami         $105-120
                (it really is pretty)

Fans:  Those mentioned here: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1902999,00.asp
            The motherboard supports "Asus Q-Fan 2"...  is this all I need for speed control?
                        (well, it sounds like it *should* work...  I guess we'll stick with that for now)

Graphics:
            http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/26/the_best_gaming_video_cards_for_the_money/page2.html#best_pcie_card_for_under_100
            http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
    X800 GTO    73fps       $86      POWERCOLOR X800GTO256MBDDR3
    X700        51fps       $62


HDD:
    How much space is a full enwiki dump?  Well, a full dewiki dump is ~400gb uncompressed.  Soo......
            Compressed as bz2, a full enwiki dump is likely to be >60gb

Sound card:
    On-board sound looks pretty great, especially if we're output digital.  THough it doesn't do
    digital encoding of dynamic sources, so it's still mediocre-ish.

    Have we decided on any sort of sound setup?  :|   It *would* be nice to 



Order:
    Case:       Silver Thermaltake Tsunami  (the ONE WITHOUT THE WINDOW)
    PSU:        SeaSonic S12-430
    MB:         Asus P5B Deluxe
    CPU         Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
    Graphics:   POWERCOLOR X800GTO256MBDDR3  (the non-open one)
    RAM:        4GB PC6400 DDR2-800 SDRAM, probably F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK   (this is 2.0v, but I think the MB is very flexible)
                http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010170147+1052108080+1052416064+1052308477&Subcategory=147&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=
    HD:         400GB  N82E16822152046
                http://tinyurl.com/ylcenh
    DVD drive:  NEC 7170A-0S




Future hardware plans:
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    - GPU IS OPEN BOX!  Test it and return if needed ASAP!!  (15 day limit)

    - upgrade to a DirectX10 graphics card once they hit the ~$300 price point, and they're not so bleeding-edge new

    - fill the other two RAM slots with either 2x1GB or 2x2GB (for a total of either 4GB or 6GB of RAM)

    - buy whatever is needed to do audio mixing

    - buy whatever is needed to make a sort of universal remote work with my various components

    - buy a HD-DVD drive (or BluRay or combo drive) when they're less bleeding edge, and there's more movies for them

    - BUY A QUIET DVD drive, cripes  (though http://www.cdspeed2000.com/ is software that can limit a drive's maximum speed)


Future software plans:
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    - figure out how to get Windows and Linux working alongside each other
                (possibly in a way that makes MVP not be such a huge PITA incompatible POS)