Funny, I Just Got my CPU and DDR yesterday from Googlegear.com.

Putting it together this weekend.

-Intel 2.8Ghz HT 800mhz
-Asus p4p800 with Gig LAN, Firewire, USB 2.0, RAID, 6.1 Audio
-Hyper X DDR400 1Gb Ram Dual Channel 2-2-2-1T Latency
-ATI Radeon 9600pro AGP8x 128mb
-WD1600JB 8mb Cache Hard Drive 160GB
-Mitsumi 54X32X54 CD-RW
-LG 16X DVD
-Antec Clear side RED case with 3 fans + Power supply + CPU (5 FANS!!) !Db
-Yellow ATA133 Round Cables

- Viewing it on a Dell Diamondtron NF 22"

THe Plan is to Overclock FSB so 2.8Ghz - 3.06Ghz and enable PAT. If hardware is good quality should be no problems.

Future mods:
Neon!

 

Jesus.

 

My notebook
2.4 GHz Pentium 4 (desktop processor)
512MB DDR RAM (desktop ram)
15 inch display
40 GB notebook hard drive
DVD/CD-RW combo
64MB Integrated video card (next notebook will have a REAL video card!!)

My work computer 1 (overkill for point of sale, heheh)
Athlon XP 1800+
768MB DDR RAM
15 inch ViewSonic LCD
20 GB 7200 RPM ATA133 HD1
40 GB 7200 RPM ATA133 HD2
50x CD-ROM
24x10x40 CD-RW
Kyro II 64MB Video Card

My work computer 2
Duron 1200
512MB DDR RAM
19 inch ViewSonic CRT
20 GB 7200 RPM ATA100 HD
52x CD-ROM
24x10x40 CD-RW
on-board GeForce 2 32MB (nVidia nForce chipset dealy)

Decent computers... nothing spectacular though. Going to do a killer system for my house next year.

 

Ahh the Asus P4P800... I remember when I tried doing an install when my tech was away on vacation... the MB started smoking for some reason. It's okay, RMA that shit.

 

I've used Asus since 1993 and I have not had one go bad on me yet. knock on wood What'd you do?

 

Funny - I got my Intel 2.6Ghz HT 800Mhz CPU, ASUS P4C800-E Motherboard, and 1GB Hyper X DDR433 Dual Channel RAM, and 160GB Western Digital 8Meg cache serial ata drive from googlegear yesterday haha. Still using my 128MB GForce 4600Ti card though, in a coolermaster aluminum case with Yamaha 44x CDRW and pioneer A-06 DVD +/- R/RW. Good luck on the overclock... might want to consider a better heatsink/fan though. I only plan to OC mine from 2.6-2.8 hehe, and PAT is already enabled on my 875 chipset. Good thing you got your 865 chipset now, cuz you won't be able to enable PAT on it in the next rev.

 

Yeah for those who do not know Intel put the STOP on PAT enabled for the 865PE chipset. It turns out that with PAT on a 865PE the board is only a second slower on tasks compare to the 875P.

More technical info on PAT:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/2...h_the_intel_865

Tomshardware Says:
"During our tests we were able to raise the core frequency from 2.8 GHz to 3.22 GHz (FSB speed of 230 MHz) at our first attempt and without any additional cooling."

I'll try it and see want the core temp is and system stability.

 

overclocking ability also seems to be somewhat related to where the parts were assembled. I've had better luck with asian-assembled parts as opposed to costa rican. Not implying that it's the assembly quality that is the cause. I think the parts get split by overall test yields and higher proportion of the top-end units get sent to asia for assembly. I could be wrong though - I don't work in that division hehe.

 

Wow, i think I have about the slowest computer listed here.

Dell Dimension 4600

Pentium 4 @ 2.4Ghz w/ 533 FSB
512 DDR RAM
80GB HD (7200 RPM, of course)
128 MB Video card (can't remember the exact name)
17" LCD
DVD-R
CD-RW
etc etc

 

i ing hate computers. by extension, I hate all of you.