My Baby

Today I decided to do something different and show you my computer. This is my creation and the source of all my enjoyment in this world (my girlfriend is not going to like this statement).

Sorry for the messy table and the blurry picture. 

I was shaking out of excitement.

Starting with the exterior, you can notice that the theme is black and blue. In the dark it looks even better and I can change my keyboard backlight to only work on the WASD keys (how awesome is that?). A shout-out to my fellow blogger SirJohnBear and my favorite game developer Valve for the wallpaper.

Here's what the inside of this bad boy looks like. The metal spiky box in the top left is my Venomous X CPU cooler. Right below you can see my video card Radeon HD 5850 by XFX (that thing is so big and heavy that you can probably beat someone to death with it). The hard drive along with the DVD burner and the SSD are hidden behind the metal in the top and and bottom right corners. The motherboard is in the back and the 2 Ripjaw RAM sticks are kind of in the shadow to the right of the cooler. Finally, you can see the fat black box which is my 850W Antec power supply in the bottom left.

Sorry for the blinding lights but that's just how awesome and shiny my baby is.

If anyone is interested in the specs here they are shown in the form of a shopping list. One thing that's missing is my i5 processor which is not sold on that website anymore. If you care, it was the first version of it to come out and it was the 750 model for platform 1156. Also, I used Arctic Silver thermal paste and ArctiClean cleaning solution. The price came out to around 2,000 Canadian dollars, with price matches and rebates and all.

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