Atomic Cookie Blast Furnace 4.0 on the way!
 

The next version of my favorite machine is just about to be assembled, as soon as I turn off the current version (the power supply, the case and fans will be carrying on to the next version) - Quad Core, 4 gigs of RAM yumminess on it's way (with pics).

:D

4gigs? Vista?

Hybrid drive?

Hopefully 4 GB is enough for Vista.

Yes, but can it drive you to work? ;)

I just set up my new baby with the 4 gigs of RAM, and it's sheer heaven! You are going to be so happy (and I stayed with XP...I'll upgrade someday, but not soon). Congrats!

I'll be dual booting Vista 64 and Ubuntu Linux (which will probably be my main OS)

The system POSTED on the first try, and is now running PRIME to do a little testing before I start the fun of overclocking. This is the first Intel build I've done, so I've got a bit to learn, but it looks like it's gonna be fun.

This is my first post to LoT from the new Atomic Cookie Blast Furnace.

So far, I'm just so stoked that the machine booted on the first try- I don't think I've EVER had a buid that happened with.

During assembly, some tiny little things that I'd heard were a nightmare were completely easy, especially the notorious installation of the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme heatsink. That was the easiest installation of a heatsink I've had in a while (no razor sharp fins, no pushpins).

Anyway, nothing flashy from the outside of the case now, the heatsink blocks a big chunk of window (the tips of the heatpipe ends clear the acrylic by about 1cm), and I don't have any lights installed, other than the yellow lights on the rear exhaust fan.

I thought that having 4GB of RAM in Windows XP wasn't useful tho since it can't recognize over 2GB unless you have Windows XP 64-bit?

Nope XP will go up to four (with a few chunks missing). the 64bit version will go up to 32GB.

Glad it went well Matt!

I have no clue what you said above, but it sounds good! ;)