New PC

    I am a Computer Science student at Oklahoma Christian University (oc.edu) and I am very much into computers and electronics.  I spent the first seven semesters of my college career as a computer engineering student before changing my major to Math and Computer Science.  While I have spent endless hours fiddling with computers and learning more about the tech field in general, not to mention the countless days I've wasted playing video games during my childhood (and adulthood), I actually have never had the experience of purchasing my own computer or building my own from scratch.

    Today is that day that I can proudly claim I have become a geek.  I purchased all the necessary parts from Newegg (newegg.com) and am awaiting their arrival so I can assemble and use
 my first PC.  I have been planning this build for 
several months, and am very excited about it.

    Here are the specs for the system:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+(65W) CPU
  
• 3 GB Corsair DDR2 667 RAM
  
• 1 TB (1000 GB) of HDD (500 GB Samsung + 500 GB WD) Sata 3.0 Gb/s
  
• ASUS 18x DVD+R 8x DVD+RW 8x DVD+R DL Burner
  
• 19in 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD monitor by Hanns-G
  

    All supported by an ASUS barebones system with an AM2 socket motherboard, onboard Nvidia GeForce 6150 with built-in card reader and Gigabit ethernet.

    I will update in a few days when I put this together, hopefully I can report all working well on a Debian GNU/Linux operating system.