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Almost 5 years ago I built a computer for Lomar with a tagline from him: "Money is no option, and I want to be able to upgrade easily." I chose the Asus A7V Motherboard, Athlon 1200 (top of the line at the time) and 256MB of Memory (unheard of back then). We also went with a massive (for the time) 60GB HDD, Radeon All-In-Wonder, and Creative AWE32 soundcard. Lastnight he returned with it, along with 2 other computers for spare parts to build a frankenstein. Working into the night we managed to get the processor up to 1200Mhz (thanks to a BIOS upgrade). The A7V motherboard is phenomenal: he can crank up to the latest Athlon processor with no problem using the same 5 year old motherboard. The original BIOS could only run to 900Mhz. Memory upgraded to 458MB, and an additional HDD (his 60GB only had 256KB free on it). We also replaced Millenium (Yeah, that joke was on us Microsoft) with Windows XP. I originally built his computer at the beginning of my dual-partition awakening so I easily wiped out the system partition and replaced it without having to backup any of his data files. I'm still working on final updates and restoring his applications, but I feel like a long lost child has come back to visit me for a short time. It put up with untold abuse from Lomar and is still going strong. I think I might cry when he comes to pick it up again.