Here's an update... All the parts for the new system, except the motherboard that I'll have late this week, have arrived. In addition, I've also just completed a new 2 Ghz Athlon XP 2500+ system that I built for someone else. Here is the specs and its bechmarks:
ECS KM400 Motherboard
-- 333 Mhz Bus
-- ATA133 IDE
-- Up to DDR400 support
-- AGP 8x
-- USB 2.0
-- OnBoard 6-Channel RealTek Sound
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ processor
-- ThermalTek Volcano 12 copper heatsink / 75 CFM fan
Corsair XMS 512 CAS2 DDR2700 memory module
Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB video card
Lite-On 16X DVD-Rom / Mitsumi Floppy
Maxtor 7200 RPM 120 GB 8MB Cache ATA133 Hard Drive
CPU Arithmetic Benchmark
Dhrystone ALU: 6901 MIPS
Whetstone FPU: 2871 MFLOPS
CPU Multi-Media Benchmark
Integer aEMMX/aSSE: 17201 it/s
Floating-Point aSSE: 18368 it/s
File System Benchmark
Hard Drive Index: 48 MB/s
Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
RAM Bandwidth Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE: 2310 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buffered aEMMX/aSSE: 2146 MB/s
Cache and Memory Benchmark
Combined Index: 3657 MB/s
3DMark2001SE: 8224
3DMark03: 2340
3DMark04: 3020
I'll post the bechmarking on the new system once it is complete next week.
I know it'll be some extremely impressive specs. My current water cooled P4 3.06 Ghz OC'ed at 3.6 Ghz more than doubles all these benchmarks listed above on this AMD system.