This is a couple months old, but at least I managed to post these pics before Briney got around to finishing BFE. Mere's big Christmas present was a new PC, but with a caveat - she had to build it herself. I thought I'd share a couple of pictures, and I hope you guys consider doing the same thing for your spouses/girlfriends/BFFs!
Here's Meredith showing off her mostly-finished PC. A little cable management and an operating system (
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit), and she's ready to go!
It's a fairly decent system, and I'm really surprised at just how incredibly smoothly it runs. I played a couple hours of Portal (you know... for testing!) on her 24" monitor (
Asus VH242H) on 1920x1080 with all of the eye candy cranked, and it performed flawlessly.
It was a lot of fun building Mere's PC with her, and I think it made the gift even more interesting. Besides, not every girl can brag that she built her own PC!
-b0b
(...w00t!)