My Dual Harper - Asus Z7S WS living review *56K warning*

[sgmunson]

Here's the pics I promised - as attachments because they're not hosted on a URL. The process of building this system has been surprisingly easy, save two things:

1.) The room in this case isn't quite what I thought it would be, so if there's a next time, I won't choose to go cheap on the case. I found that the cabling was having trouble with the closing up of thr right hand side of the case and the hard drives and video card. Without even realizing it, I managed to bust off a piece of the plastic on one of the SATA power cables, such that you can see the pins from one side, in the process of just closing the right side of the case. This case has both sides capable of being folded down from the top.

2.) I appear to have misplugged a USB cable that goes to the front of the case, and I burned up two different SATA card readers before I realized I had it wrong. Sure wish I had known that was a possible outcome ahead of time. I had the cable plugged in backwards from what I could tell, but I'm not entirely sure, as I ended up letting go of the cable right after removing it from the pins on the mobo, and another possibility is that I only had half of it plugged in, but who knows which half. I can't even be sure I have it right at this point, but I won't be using those anytime soon. I guess I'll have to find a real cheap USB device to test it again later.

Next step is the install of Vista Ultimate 64-bit, followed by SQL Server Developer's Edition 2005 AND 2008, so that I have both versions available. Then I get a copy of the multi-processor version of Fritz (chess playing program) - perhaps for Christmas...

Anyway, if anyone has any guidance based on this post of the pics, please feel free to respond. Thanks!

Steve
(aka sgmunson)