The desk setup I used to have at my old condo. Gear: # Abit AV8 with third Eye motherboard # Athlon 64 FX-53 running at 2448 mHz # CPU cooling by a Thermalright DP120 heatpipe heatsink with a 120mm fan on top for less noise # 1GB OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum RAM # Western Digital "special edition" 7200rpm 120gb 8mb cache hard drive # Seagate 7200rpm 120gb 8mb cach hard drive # Benq 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW drive # ATI Radeon 9800 SE 128mb graphics card, with dual monitor support, 8x AGP and TV out # all packed into a silver aluminum Antec LANBOY case with a side window and 400 watt quiet power supply with blue LED and 120mm fan # the case has two temperature-sensitive 80mm fans for less noise # round silver-color cables for all the drives # 12V car cigarette lighter plug, so I can power my CD/MP3 player or charge a mobile phone # Eluminx blue-backlit keyboard in black case # cordless Logitech MX700 mouse I also upgraded to a LG Flatron L1710B 17" LCD monitor after this picture was taken The desk is an older Effektiv hexagonal corner unit (top only) from IKEA. Got it for just $31 from the IKEA returns/scratch-and-dent section :) Huge amounts of space but it takes up a hell of a lot of room.

A8N-SLI premium. Dual RAID SATA II controllers. Chaintech PCIe 6600GT. Room for another. 1GB of RAM. AMD64 3000+. Heatpipe . This is during the build process. Many pieces are not installed at this point. Update Dec 2006, the SIL SATA RAID controller has failed.