just built...

[pengyman89]

So I finally replaced 2 of the final pieces of hardware original to my hewlitt packard pc. Replaced the mother board and the processor.

New Specs are:
EVGA 750i sli ftw
intel e8400 w/ hr-01+ @3.6Ghz
EVGA 8800gt stock
2GB Patriot CL5 DDR2-800Mhz PC2-6400
Antec Truepower Trio 650W PSU
Seagate 250GB hard drive
XP32
all in a CM690

I couldn't be happier at the moment. no issues whatsoever, overclocking the e8400 was a cake walk (this coming from someone who has never overclocked a processor before). Everything went together almost perfectly. Only issues i have now are some very noisy fans which i'll have to deal with soon.

I'm sure the noise will piss off someone in the household enough that they'll get me a fan controller  ::) as i've used up the last of me grad gifts.

As a matter of interest the rig, out of the box, stock clocks scored 11,637 in 3dmark06 and after overclocking the cpu scored 12,258 (keeping in mind thats the basic version)

[AMDDDA]

Umm, if you wanted a unique processor I could trade you a Pentium 3 for that motherboard...  ;D


Seriously, nice specs.

[pengyman89]

haha, does seem like everyone is running them, but it does do the job and well.

Out of curiosity, when I look in CPU-Z the multiplier sits at 6x usually, and then goes back up to 9x when the computer is doing something. I'm assuming thats the power-saving feature. I thought I had turned that off. Is that the case? and if so could anyone tell me which feature it is that will make it stay at 9x?