This is one hell of a deal! I’m pissed though since the 1 TB drive I bought for my Tivo just 6 months ago cost me 130 bucks. Now you can get one for 75 bucks shipped. I wish I could add another internal drive to my Tivo but I don’t think I watch enough shows to use up all 2 TB worth of recording capacity.
I’ve seen this clip so many times but it never gets old. It’s just too cool. I probably have enough old PC parts to build one of these but I don’t know about spending all that money on mineral oil. Besides, it’s probably going to be a pain to dispose of it when the time comes… unless Autozone takes mineral oil. Hmm… Should I build one?
It looks like time has come to retire my wife’s old computer and build her a new one. Her eMachine has been humming along for nearly five years now but it is starting to show its age. In fact, the upgrade is probably at least six months overdue. Poor thing can’t keep up with all those damned MS patches anymore! Oh and it got blasted by the same lightning strike that fried the hard drive on my old DVR. Her damage was limited to the built-in NIC. I guess I’m off to a little Newegg shopping.
So…what to get? I think the goal is to keep cost down and recycle some old parts like the CD/DVD ROM, HDD (IDE but works like a champ), and maybe adopt a slightly newer 8400GS gpu. That leaves three major parts: cpu, motherboard, RAM. I should also note that this build should last just as long if not longer than the old one and keep up with newer and heavier apps until then.
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