The Precious

I built this in January:




What we are looking at is a quad core QX6700 that I overclocked to 3.46 MHz. The liquid cooling system is a Coolermaster Mini R80, and I've never seen core temperature exceed 60 degrees. The power supply is a Tagan TG1100 working at 1100 watts to supply what will eventually be three graphics processors. At the moment, the solitary eVGA 8800GTX is quite sufficient. The main board is a 680i ASUS P5N32-E SLI, and I have two gigabytes of Corsair Dominator 8500C5D running at 1066 MHz. Hidden are two Raptor Xes running in RAID-0. I am (mostly) stable in Vista Ultimate 32-bit, but waiting on some new nVidia drivers for the 8800GTX.

Sweet!

For some reason, they've decided to lay fiber optic cable in all of the outlying areas of Tampa before they put it down near the city center. In the meantime, though, we shelled out extra for 10kbs bandwidth. I never knew quite how much we eat up on it: between the xBox, Tivo, four computers, and an HD TV all using the same connection, I'm wondering if I shouldn't even upgrade to 15. In the meantime, we're crossing our fingers that we're next for fiber.

THIS is a cool place to check your speed (and you can see ours).