It's Alive! - Monster PC Buildup - Part II

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For those of you who followed my post a while back called, Going Overboard Building my new PC?, you'll recall I was ordering parts and planning to build a new P4, liquid cooled monster computer to replace my older 1 Ghz Athlon PC I had been running on for the past three years. Well, the beast has been in operation now for a couple weeks. However, up until yesterday I was running at the stock 3.06 Ghz of the P4 HT (HyperThreading) CPU. Finally yesterday, after hours and hours and hours of playing with endless settings and tedious testing, I found the optimal combination of system settings to overclock the beastie to it's full potential, as well. So, now it's not a 3.06 Ghz beast... It's effectively (3.59 Ghz) a 3.6 Ghz beast. It's darn pretty too... So, make sure to check out my updated photos.

Here is the benchmarking results so far, but this is with the stock Radeon 9700 Pro card. I will soon be overclocking it too. Most likely I'll get it's core clock speed running at least at 410 Mhz from it's stock 324 Mhz and get the memory clock speed up there too. I'm currently adding a card fan cooler on the side of it and a small copper heat sink onto each DRAM chip on it. Of course, the main GPU has a water block on it - so, that's liquid cooled. In addition, I'm also adding active heat spreaders onto the DDR modules to replace the standard ones. i.e. the new heat spreaders have heat sinks and a fan on them.

Sandra Memory: Integer 3886 / Float 3903
Sandra Media: Integer 16539 / Float 25647
Sandra CPU: Dhrystone 11079, Whetstone 3104 / 6755 (iSSE2)

3DMark03 : 3674
3DMark2001SE: 16853

Also, the file system benchmark on the ATA133 Raid Array came out to 44,886 KB/s. Yep... It's FAST.