It has been a long time since I have laid my hands on a "respectable" desktop platform.
More than 5 years.
The last Desktop I've built is a Pentium 4 (478) 1.8Ghz with only 256MB DDR SDRAM and a 40GB Hard drive using GeForce 256 DDR (From old Desktop) for my brother 3 years back.
My new desktop specifications are as below:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz Processor (Conroe)
2x 512 MB Cosair DDR2 RAM (PC-5300)
Gigabyte 965P-DS3P Mainboard
Seagate 320 7200.10 SATA2 Hard Drive
Sony DRU-830A DVD Writer Drive
Leadtek nVidia GeForce 7900GS 256MB Graphic Card
Powered by
Antec Truepower Trio! 430Watt Power Supply Unit
Housed in
CoolerMaster Praetorian RC-730 Aluminium Casing
2x CoolerMaster 12cm Fan with Blue LED
3x CoolerMaster 8cm Fan with Blue LED
2x Artic Cooling 12cm Fan with noise dampening
Swiftech Apogee CPU Waterblock
Swiftech MCP655 1200LPH Pump
Swiftech MicrosMCRES Reservior
Cooltrek Radiator (2x120 Fan Type)
6 Feet Clearflex 1/2" house
I have further plans with this system.
The cooling capacity easily allows overclocking over 3Ghz without much heat related issues with the CPU however this would be limited to the RAM and CHIPSET cooling capacity and their capabilities. In order to push further, I am required to change the RAM and allow implement active cooling on my Northbridge chipset (Either by using Swiftech Waterblock or normal fan heatsink cooler)
Currently I am running the graphic processing unit at 500Mhz Core, 733Mhz Memory.
This graphic processing unit will retire when the nVidia Geforce 8000 series is affordable enough.
There is also a slim change I may run ATi R600 type processing units on Crossfire mode should they be affordable and has performance comparable if not greater than that of their nVidia counterparts.
For now, we shall see.