Well I have reached a new plateau in my life. As of a few weeks ago, I graduated from my MBA program in Business Administration. Since then, little issues which I could not perform while attending college full time have suddenly made themselves more apparent. A perfect example was my desktop computer as I went to use it and things starting acting odd. I had intended to rebuild but was planning for the right time. Now that college is done, I thought it was a good idea to start investigating what I could do for upgrading my tower PC.

After a few days of research I located a good deal for rebuilding the entire tower plus it would give me the opportunity to grow. Here is what I came up with:

- 6000 AMD Athlon X2 Processor 3.1GHz
- Asrock A780GXE/128M AMD 780G+ SB700 Chipset Motherboard
- DDR RAM F2-6400 2048 MB x2 (F2-6400CL6D-4D4GBMQ)
- PC-A59B Lian Li Black Case
- Power Supply: 500 watt from old system, unsure of name
- Hard drive: 500 gig Seagate SATA

I removed my DVD-Rom and the current 80 gig Seagate hard drive which I had in my old system and put that in the new one. The new mid tower case has four ports available so there is ample space to support two hard drives including the DVD-Rom drive. Should I purchase a second SATA drive to ghost the first or a second DVD-Rom, there will be room due to that fourth port opening.

The largest question I have right now is what operating system I am going to run on the desktop. I have considered staying with Windows XP 64 bit. I have also considered Windows Vista however there are questions I have regarding that operating system because others have had issues with it. Another option I am reviewing is leaving Windows permanently and moving to Ubuntu or Debian as I can use VMWare should I need to run Windows.

Currently, Windows XP is on it with a bare minimum while I wait on my hard drive.