The First 100 Years Are The Hardest

Hardware Configuration Updated 5/7/04 : Be sure to use a passively cooled video card if you want to minimize system noise. I replaced the PNY nVidia card with one from XForce (XFX) which is built on the same nVidia GeForce FX chipset. The XFX is passively cooled and uses DDR333 (vs DDR400) SDRAM. Otherwise the XFX is identical to the PNY model. The fan on the actively cooled PNY video card doubled the noise from the Shuttle XPC! Luckily, Tiger Direct agreed to RMA the card with no restocking fee and even paid for the return shipping. What started out as a PC upgrade has become a full scale replacement. Here are the specs for the system components that I have on order from Newegg and TigerDirect . All items are being shipped either UPS or FedX and should be delivered by Sunday! Shuttle XPC SN85G4 Barebones kit AMD Athlon 64 2800+, 512KB L2 Cache, 64-bit Processor XFX nVIDIA GeForce FX5200 Video Card, 128MB DDR, TV-Out, 8X AGP (Updated!) Corsair ValueSelect 184