Just finished building my first computer!

[bmxmon]

My brother also just built a system, and it has the core 2 duo E2160. His is actually benchmarking better than mine, for some reason. So this morning has been spent trying to get the thing to beat his, yet to no-avail. We have the exact same graphics card, different ram (mine is faster) and different Mobo's. (Mine has more features, though I honestly dont know what they all do, haha) So its all in the tune as it sits now, I know mine can beat his, I just need to figure stuff out. Right now im sitting at 3.0ghz cpu with 999mhz ram. When I up it to 3.2ghz it has been failing, though im pretty sure its the ram, not the cpu. Anyway, the race is on between us, haha.
Like you said, I guess the architecture between the old chips and the core 2 duo's is pretty insane, making it faster with lower clock speeds. I honestly dont know too much about computers yet, though im trying to learn more. What do you do for work?