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Well in a very random twist, a week after I did my post on building a computer, mine happened to die, lol.

So this really presents me with the perfect opportunity to show you guys how to assemble a PC. The parts all arrive tomorrow (hopefully), and then I’ll be rebuilding everything!

But today, I’ll run down the components I went with.

For the CPU, Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Yorkfield 2.66GHz
This isn’t the most powerful CPU out there, but he’s still a really nice model. I opted for the quad core because I really wanted to see the difference in performance. My last CPU was a Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, so it’s a pretty good level for comparison.

For the motherboard, GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R
This was actually really close between an ASUS board. I’ve used both manufacturers in the past though and I’ve been very happy with each. Both boards have a large number of positive reviews as well. In the end, they were so close in their builds that the deciding factor turned out to be the number of USB ports, lol

Some faster Ram, OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB)
I currently have two slower sticks of 1GB each DDR2 that I might add as well. It’s true that it’ll lower the speeds all around on the ram, but I’m thinking the simple capacity will make up for it comfortably.

I’m also debating on doing some water cooling. I do have a pretty nice CPU cooler, but I’m really wondering how big of a temperature difference I’ll see on a quad core vs my old dual core CPU.

But like I said, the parts arrive tomorrow, then I’ll do a full write up on everything! lots of pictures

Do I know how to call them or what? In the Microsoft vs Google game I made mention to the fact that it’s likely we’ll be seeing google netbooks powered by ARM processors. And today I see this article popping out, “ARM Cortex + Google Chrome = Your Next Netbook?“. Looks like I was right

So whats this all mean?

Well google will be starting a big larger of a battle than against just microsoft. It’ll be waging ware on software developers and a few hardware developers. All home and work computers run off the same CPU Model as Intel. They may not have an Intel processor, but odds are, they do.

Now the software developers won’t be too big of an issue since ARM has been around for a while, but they’re still pretty late to hit the mainstream game, and all that software you love for your desktop/laptop will need to be redeveloper to run with an ARM processor.

Whats the difference between ARM and Intel? Well ARM has never had the power to process things like windows. Intel has never had the battery life that ARM has. It’s sort of like comparing a ranger to an F-350 (King Ranch Edition of Course). For a netbook, ARM might be an ideal choice, but I think there is still a lot to come from all of this.