Finally, an upgrade!

I finally got around to building a new machine. I’m impressed with how it turned out…think the cats are too.

I ran the POV-Ray render benchmark. The old AMD Dual Core machine rendered the image in 29m50s. The new one did it in 12m13s. Hell of a jump so I had to load some games. Doom3, ultra settings at 1600×1024 easily maintained 60FPS.

The specs…

Intel e8500 dual core 3.16Mhz
Zahlman CPU cooler
Asus mobo with 1600FSB
4 Gig Kinston DDR2 1066
nVidia 9800 with 1Gig
Corsair 575watt PSU
2 250Gig WD Caviar sata3, 1 500Gig WD Caviar sata3
2 Acer 19″ Widescreen monitors