I decided I would build my mother a computer to replace her aging Dell

her old computer: Dell Inspirion 630 tower
- Pentium 4 HT 2.2 ghz
- 2 gigs of DDR2 667
- 160 Gb HDD
- ATI 1800 XT
- CD-ROM drive (NOT a DVD drive!)
- DELL 1280 x 1024 CRT monitor
- dell mouse and dell keyboard (Both are PS/2)
- DELL speakers (left is broken)
- Logitec webcam 480p @ 15 fps
- Windows XP

since I didn't actually have to try that hard to make something better, I decided to go for looks first, performance second so I could blow my mom's mind

new computer:
- Intel Executive Platform motherboard, socket LGA 775 DQ35JOE
- Q9550 quad core 2.83 ghz
- 8 gigs of DDR2 800
- 60 Gig SSD (configured as boot drive only)
- twin 1 Tb western digital "Blue" hard drives in RAID 1 (my mother has a history of failed hard drives)
- Viotek 450 watt PSU
- AGPtek RGB mouse
- M200 RGB keyboard
- PC cooler "Shark" heatsink (using Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound)
- external DVD burner
- DIYPC DIY-F2-P mini tower
- RX 460 graphics card (not pictured)
- evercool HDD cooler
- Microsoft LifeCam 720p webcam (not pictured)
- two UV strips (generic brand)
- APC BACK-UPS 900 (they have dirty power)
- Dell "ultrasharp" monitor with built in USB hub
- Rosewill 300 mbps wifi card (PCIe x1)
- adaptek firewire card (mom has older accessories she occasionally uses)
- Windows 10