Thursday, May 23, 2002
I Built a Pentium 4 2.0 GHz Computer from Scratch
PC Club opened a new computer store in Dayton. They specialize in parts for upgrading and building computers. I took advantage of the grand opening sale (combined with their franchise-wide 10 year anniversary sale) and bought a case, motherboard, 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 processor and fan, 60 gig IBM hard drive, floppy drive, DVD-ROM drive, memory, and Windows XP Professional operating system. I already had an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon card.
It took about an hour
to build the computer, and almost an hour to install the operating system.
With the All-In-Wonder card I can watch cable TV on the computer.