Yep, I'm sticking to the AW case.
I have an old 80GB hard drive which I'm going to use for system and applications only, I'll start with a 250GB HD for storage.
The other system specs to start include a Core2Duo 2.0Ghz CPU, a single Nvidia 8600 VC, SLI motherboard with Quad Core CPU support, 667Mhz DDR2 RAM, 700W PSU and dual DVD writers.
That case has space for six hard drives so there's plenty of room to grow.
The specs for the old build were:
- Intel 875PBZ mobo.
- One 40GB and one 80GB HD.
- Dual DVD writers.
- 256MB NVIDIA 7600 VC.
- 4 sticks of 256MB Kingston DDR RAM.
- Sound Blaster Digital Studio card.
- 550W PSU.
Not a bad rig at all, it could run Bioshock as well as current games quite acceptably
. It started with simpler specs (single DVD writer, 512MB of RAM and NV 5700 card, lesser PSU, lower sound card) and worked my way up with upgrades.
I was thinking of upgrading it further but I have some growing needs regarding computing, storage and graphics power (that's why the upcoming mobo is SLI and Quad Core capable) so I needed to start from scratch.