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My daughter has been running on my old P3 600@800 that I built for her sixth birthday. For her 13th birthday I decided she was way overdue for some more horsepower. Since I just happen to have a spare workstation on hand it seemed like the logical upgrade path for her. Although the "guts" are essentially the same, I pulled out the Matrox Parhelia and put in a card more suitable for gaming: an AGP 512M Radeon 2600.

 
 
Tech Specs
CPU Dual Prestonia Xeon @ 3.06 GHz w/533MHz FSB
HSF Stock "wind-tunnels"
Mobo Intel SE7505VB2
RAM 2G Crucial ECC
Vid Sapphire ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro
Sound M-Audio Audiophile 2496
HD Four Western Digital 74G Raptors
in RAID 10 with 3Ware Escalade 8506
Removable Western Digital WD2000JB storage drive
 

But, of course, you can't just give a teenage girl a plain black computer (well, I can't anyhow) so once again I brought the machine down to Ron's Signs (the guys that painted the House of RagE computer and put the decals on my two Road RagE projects). This time though, I didn't really have anything in mind. Just told him "purple dragon". Here is what he come up with:

  Purple Dragon

  Purple Dragon

  Purple Dragon

  Purple Dragon

  Although I didn't have time to completely tear the machine down, I did decide the wiring needed some cleanup:

  Purple Dragon guts

 

What? Don't all 13 year old girls have dual Xeon workstations?

 

 
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