I bought a Athlon XP computer in a beige midi tower. It reminds me of the first PC I assembled myself, which was my third IBM compatible PC, after my 386 and my Pentium II. I loved this computer and enjoyed building and upgrading it.

This current PC has the following characteristics:

• AMD Athlon XP 1700+ CPU (Socket A)
• 768MB RAM
  • 1x Kingston KVR400K64C25/236 2.6V
  • 1x Kingston KVR400X64C3/512
  • 1x Samsung 256MB DDR PC3200 CL3
• ASUS A7V600-X motherboard. It has the VIA KT600 chipset.
• V9400-X R2.005/TD/128M/AR VGA card
• it has a external gameport connector hooked up to the motherboard.

Currently, it has Windows 98 installed. Eventually I think I will be using this PC as a Windows XP machine.

Things I want to change are:

• adding a faster AGP video card.
• adding a faster CPU and/or overclocking it.
• changing the CPU cooler for a quieter one.
• change the PSU for a quieter one.
• replace the harddisk with a esata SSD.
• adding a card reader to the front 3.5inch bay.
• adding some kind of cool front bay thingy.
• a cool case badge.