The new case - I later realized it's called the Antec Super Lanboy and comes with carrying straps. Now I have to install Unreal Tournament and stop showering.

Coolest feature ever. No longer will I lose all my little screws etc!

Motherboard - MSI 865PE Neo2-P. The box looks like an exciting video game, not a fairly boring piece of computer hardware (though it IS a pretty cool board - SP/DIF digital 6.1 audio out, onboard gigabit ethernet... snort...)

CPU - P4 2.60 GHz, 800MHz FSB

RAM - 512MB PC3200 DDR400 (another 512MB will come later)

Motherboard installed

That's a lot of cooler for such a small chip

Installing the CPU

CPU installed

CPU Heatsink/fan installed

Lots of cooling in a concentrated area

RAM installed

Mounting the HDs to the trays with vibration/noise-absorbing grommets

Drives installed in drive cage (coolest installation system ever)

HD wiring installed

Video card - ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

The card itself (dual VGA out so I can have two monitors like all the cool kids)

Everything installed

I didn't realize the front fan glows blue. Sort of cool, but how do you turn it off at night when you want to sleep?

Also, it has a window. Now I'm obligated to put blue cathodes in there or something. Well I have to look good at all the LAN parties I'll undoubtedly be carrying it to, don't I?

And all this unbelievable graphics performance is piped through a 10-year-old 15" monitor that turns yellow at random

Degeneration. Oh well, red is a cooler color anyway.

Although some things disappear from the screen

Stratification