When I got my Mac, I immediately took it apart, and replaced nearly everything possible. RAM, HDD, and the optical drive amongst them.

Warranty? What warranty?

Knowing what terrible luck you have with computers breaking in your vicinity, I don't think that was the best idea.

I figured that since I went with the out of box so often and got screwed anyway, I might as well treat myself.

I'm near a record lifespan with this one. Go figure.

Don't forget computers getting stolen.

That could happen to anyone though.
My point was that voiding the warranty when you have a history of computers breaking is a bad idea.

Bad idea = fun
My bad luck is with hard drives...and possibly the OS itself...

HWiNFO32's report:

CPU: Intel Pentium D 920 (Presler, B1)
2800 MHz (14.00x200.0) @ 2800 MHz (14.00x200.0)
Motherboard: Unknow NF570_SLIT-A
Chipset: nVidia nForce 570 SLI Intel Edition + MCP51
Memory: 4096 MBytes @ 266 MHz, 4.0-4-4-12
- 1024 MB PC5300 DDR2-SDRAM - OCZ OCZ2SE6671G
- 1024 MB PC5300 DDR2-SDRAM - OCZ OCZ2SE6671G
- 1024 MB PC5300 DDR2-SDRAM - OCZ OCZ2SE6671G
- 1024 MB PC5300 DDR2-SDRAM - OCZ OCZ2SE6671G
Graphics: PNY Verto GeForce 8500 GT
nVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (G86), 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM
Drive: ST3500630A, 488.4 GB, E-IDE (ATA-7)
Drive: COMBI RW16x10/DVD, Combo CD-R Writer
Drive: , IDE <-- undetected 250 GB SATAII drive
Sound: nVIDIA MCP51 - High Definition Audio Controller
Network: NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Build 6001

Saves me typing it out
Needs some upgrades badly...

Bad Swi1ch! BAD SWI1CH! Stop looking a components! Cracking the price right up!

Antec 1200. 3 front loaded 120mms, 2 rear 120mms, 1 top loaded 200mm
Q6600 2.4Ghz, Guaranteed to run at 3.00GHZ
Thermalright TRUE Black 120 CPU Cooler + 2 120mm fans
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) (Gonna get the Dominator if I can)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
BFG GeForce 9800 GTX+ OC 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI OR A Radeon 4870. Not sure yet.

And this is before monitor, mouse, keyboard, sound card, headset and speakers. Goddamn. I'm going to go buy some scratch cards, cus this baby is clocking in around £1500 ($2247.15)

Do you seriously need THAT many fans?

That's what it comes with aha. Means I can quite happily overclock.

My system has a few 120mm with magnetic bearings, meaning they produce about zero sound (only sound is the air that passes through them). I perfer my system to be quiet then to be massively overpowered (thought its specs are not exactly wimpy).

The 1200, even with it's 6 (Maybe 7) fans is super-quiet when they're all flicked onto low-med speed. On high they get a little louder but that's when i'll be gaming with headphones or loud speakers, so it makes little difference. Plus it's only for a year or so because when I go to Uni I fully plan on making an external rad box and having a full watercooling system.

CPU; i7 920
RAM; 6 GB OCZ Platinum
GPU; 2x 4870x2 (Quad-CFX)
HDD; 2x Hitachi 500gb
1x Seagate 160gb
PSU; Thermaltake 1200w.
MB; Asus P6T Deluxe.

What kind of Mac did you get? I own a PowerBook G4 15" 1.67GHz, last Generation before Intel-Cores.
Plan to throw Leopard on it sometimes, as soon I upgraded my 70GB HDD to something bigger like 400GB or so. I guess it's pointless to replace/upgrade other stuff on that machine, except Ram which I already did (1.5GB DDR2); maybe I should get another 1GB and make it a round 2GB of parallel Rams. Graphics are hard molded onto the board and replacing the CPU isn't going to work either.
I would love to. If you happen to have some advice, I'd gladly take it.

Maybe I should try to at least get some of the old batteries which I turned in for the replacement ones they offered freely because the old ones had some issues on overheating and turning some laptops into a BBQ. Crap! Shouldn't have done it. Batterie-lifetimes fell dramaticaly from 5h to 4h to now less then 1.5h.

I should get a new Intel-Mac somewhen in the future, if I have the money for it. Once a Mac, always a Mac. I love my "old" Mac though. Wouldn't want to leave it in the desert. Maybe I just put a slig Linux on it and use it for portable or driving around *g*
Just need to fix that battery-lifetime issue first.

Another thing: do you know how to change the Mac-adresse of the wlan-antenna? I tried through terminal but it wouldn't do it. Maybe I should get an external USB-antenna which usually has a whider range? Also easier to use for cantennas.
Or do you know a way?

EDIT:
Oh, you are supposed to post your rig here?
Well one is my PowerBook G4 and the other is my PC

1.) PowerBook G4 15", PPC 1.67GHz, 1,5GB DDR2 (upgraded to 2GB now) RAM, 80GB HDD (upgraded to 320GB now), SuperDrive, OS X 10.5.8, FireFox Browser prefered

2.) Intel Core2 Duo 8400 3.0 GHz, Gigabyte EP35-DS4 Mainboard, 4 GB G.Skill DDR2 RAM 1066MHz, 1TB Samsung HDD,
LG DVD-Burner, BluRay-Drive, Iiyama 19" vision master pro (CRT), Cherry keyboard, Logitech OEM optical mouse USB + Logitech G9x laser mouse, BeQuiet DarkPower Pro P7 550W, PCIe Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX 512MB, Watercooling with Aquastream XT Ultra pump, Ubuntu Linux Karmic Koala and Windows XP.
Since mid 2008.

Before that I had an AMD Thunderbird 1000c, 640MB SDRAM 133MHz, Geforce 2MX 32MB, Creative Labs Soundblaster Value and some stuff from top to go along with my Mac.

Because it seems there are people on here from all over the world and especially the USA, I wanted to ask the U.S. American mates: "who the heck was requesting glossy displays on Mac's as Steve said?". God damn, I'm not going to buy another Mac until this glossy crazyness stoped again. Wouldn't mind an old 30" Apple Cinescreen non glossy.
-> Finally the manufacturers realised that glossy is not all that welcome and start rethinking.

Rig coming in a couple days. Considered i7 but it's too costly atm.

Antec 1200 Case
Q9550 Quad @ 2.83. Gonna OC to 3.3
Noctua CPUHSF
8GB Corsair DDR2 XMS2
Zalman Heatpipe 750w PSU
BFG GTX280 OC 1GB
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45
Samsung F1 1TB HDD

It makes me feel better about myself knowing there are people who sell more of their soul then I do for their rig.