Unboxing

Everything arrived within two business days (I ordered Wednesday morning and received everything either Thursday or Friday). Here it all is just sitting in my room waiting to be opened and assembled:
Just click on any picture to see the full image.

Top Row: GPU, Cooler, CPU, RAM
2nd Row: PSU, Motherboard, DVD drive, Hard Drive, Keyboard
3rd Row: Monitor, Chassis
Bottom: Case fans

Here I will show some pictures of each part that I bought, with a short review of what came in the box. I'm not going to do a full product review because that can all be found online.

Let's start again with the case:

Cooler Master Centurion 590

The lovely box showing plenty of photos of the case

The mesh front of the case with I/O panel

The left side and top with fan vents

Right side and rear of case

Inside of the case, with all items included

Instructions, along with zip-ties and plenty of screws

The hard drive cage, which converts 3 5.25" drive bays to 4 3.5" bays

The rear inside with the included 120mm Fan, and tool-less expansion slots

The front with mesh panel removed, revealing up to 9 drive bays

The front intake 120mm blue LED fan attached to the hard drive cage

Next up, the Power Supply:
Corsair VX550W

The Box

The bottom of the box

The instructions, with the PSU inside a sweet Corsair drawstring bag

The cables, connectors, zip-ties and screws

The power supply unit

The top of the PSU, showing the specs

And onto the Motherboard:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775

The box

The contents: Setup guide, IDE and SATA cables, sticker, CD, I/O pate, instructions

The motherboard wrapped in a static-free bag

Free from the bag

Here we have my new processor:
Intel Core 2 Q6600 Kentsfield

The lovely box

A small window showing off the most powerful square inch I've ever seen

Instructions along with the crap stock cooler

The processor again, with the sticker

This is what I bought to replace that crap stock cooler:
Masscool 8WA741 92mm

The packaging (looked like a spindle of DVDs at first)

The backplate, thermal compound and the cooler itself

There are arrows on the top of the cooler to tell you which way the fan moves
(I heard of a few people having trouble with this)

And here is arguably the best video card available for under $200:
EVGA 512-P3-N801-AR GeForce 8800GT 512MB

The wonderful box

The contents of said box: Instructions, 2x DVI/VGA adaptor, S-Video cable, power chords, HDTV adaptor,
and of course the card itself

Another one of the most powerful small objects I've ever owned

Next up, the memory:
G Skill 4 GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM 1000

The pretty box

It flips open to show off the RAM!

The contents: Decal, paper thing with websites on it, sticker, and the RAM

4GBs

Now for the Hard Drive:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB

It came in a static bag, this is what it looks like (yea its SATA)

The optical drive:
Pioneer DVR-215DBK 20x SATA

The only packaging were these two foam blocks and the instructions
Not even a plastic bag or anything. I'm glad the box had plenty of packing peanuts

The drive in all of its glory (I'm glad its black)

Finally my case fans:
Cooler Master 120 Blue LED
4x Hiper HFF-1N12N 120mm Transparent
Hiper HFF-1N08N 80mm Transparent

6 fans plus my included 2 in the case make 8!

I'm too lazy to rotate this picture (it's just the blue LED fan's packaging)

Here is the blue LED fan along with the screws and 3-4pin power adapter. This adapter has an extension section, so this fan will not take up one of my 4pin molex connectors (nice touch). It's going to go in the front of the case as well. Hope to get to see it light up soon.

Again too lazy. The packaging for the 80mm and 120mm were the same.

The 120mm fan along with rubber sticky washer things, screws, and 3-4pin power adapter
(it would have been nice for them to make the 4-pin end an extension like Cooler Master did, but I can't expect too much when I pay 5 bucks for a 19dB fan.)

The thin (15mm) 80mm fan with screws and power adapter (again, no extension)

Now one of the best looking parts of this system:
KDS K-2237MDWB Black 22"

The box, showing off the nice screen

The contents: instructions, stand, VGA cable, audio cable, power cable
(no DVI cable, sadly, but I found one online for $5, and it was a Monster cable)

The screen itself, all 21.6 inches of it

Finally, my new keyboard:
Logitech UltraX

The keyboard box

As you can see, I kept it simple with only a few hotkeys, and a nice simiple layout

That concludes the unboxing part of this build. I'm going to go build now. I'll take pleny of pictures. Tomorrow I should be done building and I'll find time to make the post with step by step of what I did. Hope I don't mess it up too bad.

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