Just checking in to see the progress, and now I'm positively drooling! Our server here at the Uni died yesterday, succumbing to the plague of multiple blackouts, and we were out of internet for the whole damn day!
Good news is, I placed the order for the new parts! Sometime next week I'll be the proud owner of:
Intel C2D E8200 CPU
ASUS P5K SE motherboard
Kingston PC6200 1GB DDR2 RAM...not very proud of that, really, but it was dirt cheap! One stick so I can add another one later on to bring the RAM to 2 GB and enable dual-channel
ATi HD3650 PCI-E graphics card (256MB DDR3 version)
WD SATA2 320GB hard disk
The rest will be salvaged from the old PC. Best config I could come up with...318 Euros, tax-free (it's good to have a professor who knows people in computer stores!)!
