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Note: At the time of purchase I found this case as cheap as $269 and I paid extra to have the window installed. Don’t ask where I got it because I won’t tell you. The quality of work from that vendor was terrible and the original side panel they sent me was horribly crafted. The replacement panel I received was not much better (at least no cracked window from install) and I would not recommend the vendor. If you want this case w/ a window find the Lian Li optional panel which was not available at the time.

This is a quick description of my current system. This box was built late last year and I still have not gotten around to upgrading my video. I changed my mind numerous times on that subject and decided to wait for a die shrunk dual core GTX280 which is rumored to be available soon. For everyday use and for the games I still play it is more than capable. I currently play COD4 and COD WAW at 1920×1200 pretty much maxed out and still get a FPS range of ~65-90 playing COD4. I have not checked WAW rates but it performs very well. For any given online game I play the system is so fast I am almost always the first loaded and spawned. Occasionally I still play a little Quake Wars and maybe some Battlefield and already put down Farcry 2. You may find me online as LordRaven or LordRavenSky (as more people took my alias). Other than gaming the system gets everyday tasks along with audio & video encoding and editing.

I don’t really see building a I7 system anytime soon but who knows. Next update may be a Yorkfield quad core at 3ghz+ when the prices finally dip. I really don’t want a quad if I can’t get at least 4ghz out of it. Other than that the next gen Geforce and probably a 1.5TB backup drive. Bluray is still a thought but the burners and media are still overpriced and I don’t really watch movies on my PC (have home theater for that).

Not the world’s fastest system by any means (and a new video card would improve it) but it works. I actually toned it down from 4.4 to 4.3 recently which allowed me to drop voltage quite a bit and reduce some of the heat it pumps into the room (can raise room temp 10F easy between CPU/GPU and X48). I am using Windows XP 32 bit so I have roughly 3.33gb of available ram (4gb – 768kb on GTX). A 32 bit OS can only address a maximum of 4gb memory which includes any video memory and memory on any cards you may have.

3DMark06 14265 (@4.275ghz)
Raid ~190mbs peaks and averages ~155mbs

Jim Phillips
anartik.com