The Saga Continues

I received the Ultra case from Tiger Direct on a school day. Ho hum. I have to wait till after school before I can do anything. But after school I dig in. I find the sparse instruction book and proceed to install every single mounting pin...whether it be for a mini ATX of a full. But finally it was all in. I now have a clear sided case that is so big it takes up a good 1/4 of my school desk. I was so happy...for a while. Now came the incessant need again. I WANTED MORE!!



I now order a single blue/blue UV Cold Cathode light and install it, but with a tiny modification. I remove one of the 5 1/4 in drive bay covers and take my dad's drill press and promptly cut out a hole for the switch. Now I have LIGHT!! Well it wasn't quite the effect I was going for. Firstly a green mATX motherboard and a cheesy looking heat sink really do not look that good bathed in blue or in UV, for that matter, and second, there just wasn't enough light. The case still looked like a voluminous cave. Yuck. So what do I do? I order another. This finally sets the case right, but not the board. Like the dentist said, "Its gotta come out".

Blue Cold Cathode Light

Now really I didn't purchase a new board purely on aesthetic reasons. I will say that it was on the list of look-for's, but it wasn't the highest priority. I was actually looking for three things. Affordibility, Upgrade-ablity, and SLI capablity. And I found it. I went to Fry's on the way back from work one afternoon and had my mom and brothers sit in a car on a humid Houston day while I looked around. (It was actually their choice) The board was an ASUS P5N-E SLI with a nVidia 650i chipset, 1333mhz FSB capable, and SLI capable, not to mention that it supported Core 2's . Intel Core 2 Quads, to be precise.

Asus P5N-E SLI

Beyond the board I purchased two Antec blue LED 120mm fans for intake and outtake on my case and a stick of Kingston DDR2 6400 memory.

Antec 120mm Blue LED Fan

Now this whole system, as it was, depended on one thing - my aging Pentium 4 processor. Somethings never go as planned...