My new build -- updated

Richard Dower

Gigabyte GA-8KNXP revision 2.1 FJ BIOS
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 3.2Ghz 800MHz FSB ( Soon to be upgraded to a 3.4C since Newegg prices have dropped alot, still hoping to arrange a deal to get a 3.4EE)
Corsair 2GB, TwinX PC3200XLPT @ 2-2-2-5 DDR400 (1Gb due next week + deal done for a further 1GB)
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 4.5ms, x2 - RAID 0 Array 128k stripe
Leadtek 6800 Ultra 256MB GDDR3 425/1100MHz, massive copper cooling solution!
AOpen H700a full size tower, supports seven 80mm fans
Plextor PX-712A 12x DVD+R (may get the Pioneer 108 retail with the fancy front bezel or hold out for a Plextor 716A)
Plextor PX116A2 16x DVD-ROM
Digital Doc 5+ controlling eight 80mm Vantec Stealth fans
Thermalright SP-94
Panasonic PanoFlo 92mm
Arctic Silver 5
Sony 3.5" floppy drive
Eircom Cayman Netopia 3341, latest firmware
Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite
Creative I-Trigue L3450 speakers
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB, 2004 build
Coolermaster rounded floppy and IDE cables
Antec TruePower 550W PSU - all power cables have been sleeved/heatshrinked by a company in the US, cost $150 + €40 to ship my PSU to them. I sleeved every other wire in my case myself using Vantec cable sleeving kits.
Microcool Northpole Northbridge cooler, using a Vantec Fan Mate 1 to reduce to speed, and noise, of the fan on this
Also using various small copper heatsinks and chipsinks on everything on the motherboard
Hewlet Packard monitor cooler
Windows XP Professional - SP2 slipstreamed.

Right now i have this rig overclocked to 3.36GHz @ 210FSB, DDR420, PAT enabled.
So whatcha think?....and it only cost me a few hundread quid, as i did trades with people for most of the parts, all brand new and retail also.

I think this is the best i can build this PC right now, don't think i could get any higher spec, could i?

When 1066MHz FSB comes i might change over to PCI-E, but for right now this is as good as it gets. I wonder if i sold this right how much i would get?

lol....knowing Boards probably under a grand, "i'll give you 400", lol.

Mutant_Fruit

I'd take it off your hands if you gave me EUR50 What exactly is "sleeving" though?

Jammer

covering the wires...cable braiding its known as too

unkel

Richard Dower wrote:

Right now i have this rig overclocked to 3.36GHz @ 210FSB

Although technically true, but I wouldn't label that as overclocked to be honest

Report back here once you go over 3.8 on air or 4 on H20

Richard Dower

Well, slight overclock...my memory i have right now won't clock higher...unless i raise the voltage to 2.8v

I am waiting for the 3200XLPT as they have a default voltage of 2.75v, i'll set it to 2.8v and that should afford me an overclock of 215FSB, or DDR430. That should rasise the CPU to just over 3.4GHz.

I'd be happy with this.

unkel

The new memory would still be your bottleneck. Try and get PC4000 memory with the lowest latency you can find (probably 2.5)