Birth of a Lethal PC

[StangFlyer]

Awesome Foxy Body! I'm sure you're geeked about it. I sure was when I first fired up my new screamer. It's funny because it doesn't "seem" tremendously faster than a healthy normal system... UNTIL you do something like digital video editing or gaming, then you see how much power it does have. I can crunch an entire 9 gig DVD worth of video data down to a 4.7 GB DVD-R in 15 minutes or less with this thing. Or, compress an entire DVD into a VideoCD file in 1.5 hrs with the highest quality settings. My old 1 Ghz Athlon system took FIVE OR SIX HOURS to do the same task. Now, that's a massive difference.

Any ways, that's a decent system you put together. If you put some killer cooling pieces in it (CPU, case fans, motherboard chipset, video card) you could definitely overclock it some too. That's the whole reason I went with the water cooling set-up, I wanted to keep it nice and cool while I overclocked the piss out of it. I've got my 3.06 Ghz hyperthreaded P4 jacked up to 3.6 Ghz and my Radeon 9700 Pro all in wonder jacked up to 420+ Mhz (volt modded, RAMsinked, water cooled, and a side duel 80mm fan cooler).

I can point you to some good overclocking info if you want it... Lemme know. Congrats on the new system. You'll have to do some bench marking with it.