No specific topic so why limit myself?

So I've found out that I don't work well under extreme pressure. My brother ordered ~$3,000 worth of computer parts and I was supposed to put it together. Easy right? Not so much. When you have a $550 dollar video card in your hands and it's not going in easy, you sort of have to worry. Things worked out after a couple of serious hiccups. The main one was the computer shorting out a couple of electrical sockets...that was quite worrisome but the power supply did its job and protected the internals from harm. I don't know how it happened but after taking it apart and then putting it back together, it's been working fine. Pretty much the only thing I have left to do is install the drivers for the sound. During the whole build, I was having psychological problems. At the start of the build, I was thinking "what if it doesn't work and my brother is out 3000 bucks?". Then roughly 5 minutes in, the power supply wouldn't fit in the case. That sent me over the metaphorical edge. I got so worked up trying to get the PSU in for 45 minutes, I just had to stop and go away from it for about 2 hours. If everything went smoothly, I would guess that I would have been fine but things didn't go smoothly and that's what made me keep on second guessing myself. The build wasn't fun, esprecially when I plugged it in for the first time and instead of a start-up screen, I get a spark and the lights going out. That let down was quite depressing. Oh well, it worked out in the end. Anyway, if you're geeky, here are the major specs on it.

• Thermaltake Armor Case


• 2 dual-core AMD Opteron 265 (1.8 GHz)


• 512MBx4 Corsair ECC PC3200


• 2 eVGA 7900GTXs in SLI


• Western Digital SATA 250GB hard drive with 16MB of cache


• BenQ 16x DVD+RW drive

I already tested 3dmark03 and it got 30,027 so it's a fast machine. And the monitor my brother is going to use this computer with? A 37" 1080p Westinghouse LCD. I'll probably post pictures of the computer onto my flickr or my.opera later on when I'm not lazy.

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