Woohoo!!! My new parts have arrived, and I'm now posting from my new and improved system.

Im downloading 3DMark03 as I type, and I'll post my benchmark as soon as I can get it installed.

Here is what I'm now running:

MSI 875P NEO-LSR Mainboard - All I can say is WOW. This is one snazzy motherboard. I could post all of the specks (which are AWESOME), but I will leave it to you to check them out on your own.

Intel P4C 3.0Ghz (800Mhz FSB) - Do I really have to say anything about this?

OCZ PC4000 512MB RAM (1GB total) - I won't kick a dead horse on this one either, but I am totally impressed with this memory.

All I can say is wow. This system is blazing.

Oh yeah, I remembered to update my sig too...

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MSI 875P NEO-LSR Mainboard - Intel P4C 3.0Ghz (800Mhz FSB) - 2 x OCZ PC4000 512MB DIMMs - 4 x WD800JB 80GB/8MB Cache (RAID 0+1) - SB Audigy Platinum eX - ATi Radeon 9800 Pro AIW - Sony Trinitron 19" - Windows Server 2003 Enterprise

I got 5683 points with everything configured as default. Tomorrow I will turn Performance mode on in my BIOS, overclock my CPU & video card, and tweak my Windows configuration a bit.

We can see what she will do after that.

Check here to compare it to a system matching my old dual Athlon config. (I never benchmarked my old system using '03, so I found this one as a substitute).

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MSI 875P NEO-LSR Mainboard - Intel P4C 3.0Ghz (800Mhz FSB) - 2 x OCZ PC4000 512MB DIMMs - 4 x WD800JB 80GB/8MB Cache (RAID 0+1) - SB Audigy Platinum eX - ATi Radeon 9800 Pro AIW - Sony Trinitron 19" - Windows Server 2003 Enterprise

Nice, I am buying a system soon, and my specs are:

CoolerMaster 710 Case
Abit Motherboard (don't remember model, hehe, but top of the line)
Intel Pentium 4 3.0C
1GB Geil PC3200 RAM
5900 Ultra
2x Western Digital Raptor 10,000RPM 36GB in SATA RAID 0!

and some other crap . At just $1700.

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--Daniel--

NICE. If I wasnt in debt from this stuff I would go SATA...

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MSI 875P NEO-LSR Mainboard - Intel P4C 3.0Ghz (800Mhz FSB) - 2 x OCZ PC4000 512MB DIMMs - 4 x WD800JB 80GB/8MB Cache (RAID 0+1) - SB Audigy Platinum eX - ATi Radeon 9800 Pro AIW - Sony Trinitron 19" - Windows Server 2003 Enterprise

Heh....for how many years?

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Ryan

Uhm... Huh?

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MSI 875P NEO-LSR Mainboard - Intel P4C 3.0Ghz (800Mhz FSB) - 2 x OCZ PC4000 512MB DIMMs - 4 x WD800JB 80GB/8MB Cache (RAID 0+1) - SB Audigy Platinum eX - ATi Radeon 9800 Pro AIW - Sony Trinitron 19" - Windows Server 2003 Enterprise

It was a joke....

you said you were in debt...so I said for how many years..hinting that the stuff cost you a lot...get it?

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Ryan

doh.

/me is a tiny bit under the influence of Crown Royal Special Reserve at the moment...

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MSI 875P NEO-LSR Mainboard - Intel P4C 3.0Ghz (800Mhz FSB) - 2 x OCZ PC4000 512MB DIMMs - 4 x WD800JB 80GB/8MB Cache (RAID 0+1) - SB Audigy Platinum eX - ATi Radeon 9800 Pro AIW - Sony Trinitron 19" - Windows Server 2003 Enterprise

Hey Dan, if that's YAS (Yet Another System), I wouldn't mind a hand-me-down ;-)

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paul@pleaseohpleasedontspamme.slcentral.com
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems -- P. Erdos

Crown Royal!! :P

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Ryan

How about a review

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