Again nice reading Archer57.

When socket 939 came out, I began with an MSI K8N Neo2 Diamond Platinum + Athlon64 3500+ with an XFX Geforce 6800LE unlocked to GT. Later I sold the 3500+ and got a much cheaper 3000+ but OC'ed it to 2.6 GHz. A few months later the Asus A8N+SLI Deluxe + Opteron 165 came in.
It was a time when my main machine's internals got exchanged about every year. Fun times.

PD2JK wrote on Today, 06:48:

Again nice reading Archer57.

When socket 939 came out, I began with an MSI K8N Neo2 Diamond + Athlon64 3500+ with an XFX Geforce 6800LE unlocked to GT. Later I sold the 3500+ and got a much cheaper 3000+ but OC'ed it to 2.6 GHz. A few months later the Asus A8N+SLI Deluxe + Opteron 165 came in.
It was a time when my main machine's internals got exchanged about every year. Fun times.

Yeah, it definitely was an exciting time with rapid progress. I almost regret i missed out on playing around with it back then, as sensible as it was. Nothing since then has brought as radical changes as switching to pci-e for everything, multi-core CPUs and unified shader architecture for GPUs did.