(But what was the process of Construction like?)
Well, I plugged it in, fired it up, there was a shower of sparks and some white smoke and then nothing. I walked calmly to the bridge, and tossed myself over the suicide barrier.
The End
Actually, it fired up smoothly. Not only did this not happen with my last build (I mentioned the whole power switch cable nonsense earlier), but it must have taken me at least 3 more hours just to get to that point, fussing with screws, dropping screws, screaming "Screw this!", getting the rails backwards, putting the drive on the rails backwards, too far out, too far in, getting the CPU fan on backwards, threading tiny cables onto tinier pins, etc. From the time I got the last box from UPS (around 1pm) to the time I got the first POST was about 3 hours.
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Installing Windows (I did a full format -- I assume that helps pick out bad blocks from the get-go), getting all the updates (it took some persistence to get to the point where they would let me download Service Pack 2), installing all the drivers, getting the updates for the drivers, getting the MAC address for my ethernet card so that I could add it to my router -- I was done at about 9.30pm (just in time to catch a bite to eat at Le Cordon Bleu).
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And it was all for this -- Far Cry with everything at Very High, 1920x1600 (turns out the screenshots are lower res -- 1600x1000).
Now to deal with the aftermath:
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Fin
Okay actually, here's an Addendum
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