Got my motherboard and power supply yesterday. My case still has not shown up, sadly. I contacted the company and they said it should appear soon. They are running behind because of “Holiday overload”.Tonight, after work, I’m off to Best Buy to get a hard drive and a floppy drive. I probably won’t make the floppy drive permanent, but I’ll want one for flashing BIOS’s and such. I was originally planning on getting Serial ATA hard drives, but it looks like they’re difficult to set up. So I’ll probably get a normal IDE drive and add S-ATA later. (The C3 case has room for four hard drives. My motherboard can handle ten!) [10:12 AM]
Revision 2.0.1: Best Buy is charging twenty-five bucks for a floppy drive! I simply can’t bring myself to pay that much for a crappy old floppy drive, so I’m just going to order it online (where I can get it around ten or fifteen bucks cheaper). I did get a hard drive though. Just a video card, sound card, water cooler kit, three more fans, CD drive, monitor, processor, network hub, additional S-ATA drives, and cathodes and/or LEDs to go!
P.S. My C3 case is scheduled to arrive Monday, June 2.
That clear case is going to look cool with all the room lights turned off, the hard drive light and other external lights flashing, the various motherboard LEDs…
What about a Superdrive? The floppy/120M optical/zipdrive-like thingies? Quick and dirty storage space for any documents and reads/write 3.5 floppies for BIOS (why do the still require a floppy for BIOS upgrades, etc?).
Nobody uses floppies any more. :p
A Superdrive would actually be a good idea. I wanted to get a plain old floppy so I could get my SATA RAID started — but since I’ve postponed that and am starting with a normal drive, I can skip getting the floppy.
Thanks for opening my eyes!