It took all day. It cost me much sanity. It tried my patience. It questioned my viability as a geek. But I have prevailed.

The Specs:

• CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
• Motherboard: Chaintech VNF3-250
• Memory: Mushkin DDR400 512MB
• Harddrive: Western Digital 160GB SATA
• Video: Chaintech NVidia GeForce FX5200 256MB (transplanted)
• CD1: Asus 36x CD-RW (transplanted)
• CD2: AOpen 56x CD-ROM (transplanted – non-functioning)
• Power Supply: StarTech 480w Silent Power Supply
• Case: Silverstone SST-J02 Glacier Case

(And damn, is it fast. And a little hot too, so I’ll be getting another fan for it, but isn’t it just the prettiest thing?)