Computer advice needed

Also, the Phenom II is coming soon. This was a neat article I found where they managed to overclock it to 5.0GHz with Liquid Nitrogen. http://www.legitreviews.com/article/836/1/ I looked around a little bit more and found out its been overclocked to 6.3GHz while still being stable.

Stable while the liquid helium lasted?

On another note, I upgraded my system a bit! I'll probably purchase it tomorrow, unless you protest.

Antec Nine Hundred (Black/Transparent) (Miditower)
Asus P5Q Pro (Moderboard (Intel Socket 775))
Corsair CMPSU-650TXEU 650W (PSU - ATX)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,4GHz Box (CPU (Intel Socket 775))
Sapphire Radeon HD4870 Silent Efficiency Dual-DVI 1GB (PCI-Express)
Kingston ValueRAM DDR2 PC6400/800MHz CL5 2x2GB (DDR2)
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 16MB 640GB (3,5" S-ATA)
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (CPU-heatsink)
Noctua NF-S12-1200 120mm (Fan (for the Ultra-120))
Samsung SH-S223F (DVD Burner)

Total cost: $1 170 (This was after finding the components in five of the cheapest stores in Sweden. The cheapest single source for the components charges $1 292 for them.)

Stable while the liquid helium lasted? On another note, I upgraded my system a bit! I'll probably purchase it tomorrow, unless you protest. Antec Nine Hundred (Black/Transparent) (Miditower) Asus P5Q Pro (Moderboard (Intel Socket 775)) Corsair CMPSU-650TXEU 650W (PSU - ATX) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,4GHz Box (CPU (Intel Socket 775)) Sapphire Radeon HD4870 Silent Efficiency Dual-DVI 1GB (PCI-Express) Kingston ValueRAM DDR2 PC6400/800MHz CL5 2x2GB (DDR2) Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 16MB 640GB (3,5" S-ATA) Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (CPU-heatsink) Noctua NF-S12-1200 120mm (Fan (for the Ultra-120)) Samsung SH-S223F (DVD Burner) Total cost: $1 170 (This was after finding the components in five of the cheapest stores in Sweden. The cheapest single source for the components charges $1 292 for them.)

Good Work! Now, when your done building it you can go ahead and mail it this way. I'll be nice and pay for S&H.

(thats a sweet machine, i'm running on a dell that i found in a foreclosure house. (Father is a real estate agent :P))

Good Work! Now, when your done building it you can go ahead and mail it this way. I'll be nice and pay for S&H. (thats a sweet machine, i'm running on a dell that i found in a foreclosure house. (Father is a real estate agent :P))

I'll be nice enough to not let you financially devastate yourself with the electric bills that this monster elicits.

I overclocked it to 3.4 GHz on air cooling, which, you guessed it, required me to mount a steel alloy version of something out of Metropolis inside it:



(For a while, I was confident that the heat sink wouldn't even fit, but as it turned out, it barely even scraped the plexiglass of the Antec Nine Hundred case.)

The 800 MHz RAM is perfect for a 3.6 GHz overclock, but CoreTemp is indicative of temperatures around 65ºC after running Prime95 for a few hours. Thus, I think I'll remain at 3.4 GHz for a while, especially governing that I'm able to play new games on ultra high settings in 1920x1200 with a good to excellent frame rate.




Sadly, it doesn't handle Dwarf Fortress as well as I had hoped it would. It's unfortunate governing that it was one of the main reasons for me to procure a new PC. Here's what the game looks like in action (obviating that it's paused):



It may look trivial, but it will eat your system alive after your dwarf population reaches numbers of 100-150. Also, if you decide to play it, be warned that it's one of the most innovative, awesome and time-consuming games released in the past few years.