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It's been a while since I last updated the specs of my rig. I have since replaced the motherboard, memory and one of my DVD burners. Also, got into Vista, and so far so good after installing SP1 on it.
So, my updated rig (as of June 14, 2008) is now:
So my updated rig is now:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
Memory: 2GB (2 x 1GB) Corsair XMS2 DHX TWIN2X2048-6400C5DHX @ 5-5-5-18 @ DDR2-800
MB: Intel DP35DPM
GPU: BFG 8800GT OC
Case: Antec Super Lanboy
Power Supply: Corsair HX520
Monitor: LG 19" widescreen
DVD Drives: TSSTcorp/Samsung SH-S203N SATA; Lite-On 160P6S IDE
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit with Service Pack 1 and all critical updates to date
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It's been more than 16 months since I made my last post in this thread. During that time I have updated and upgraded my main system several times, so that it is now as follows:
CPU: Intel Core i7-920 OC'd to 3.5GHz (that's as far as I want to go on the stock Intel CPU cooler; I feel that my overclock can go higher if I had a better cooler)
Memory: 6GB (3 x 2GB) Corsair XMS3 TR3X6G1600C7 (CMX6GX3M3A1600C7) @ 7-7-7-20 @ DDR3-1400
MB: Intel DX58SO
Hard Drive #1: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
Hard Drive #2: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 (1TB each - 2TB total) in a RAID 0 array (for video editing)
Hard Drive #3: Western Digital MyBook Home 1.5TB (connected via eSATA)
GPU: VisionTek Ati Radeon HD 4850
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Extreme Music PCI (a legacy from the days when I had my last AMD system to date, an Athlon x2 3800+ Socket 939 with 2GB of DDR400 memory)
TV Tuner Card: ATi Theater 650 PCI-e
Case: Antec Nine Hundred
Power Supply: PC Power And Cooling Silencer 750W
Monitor: LG 19" widescreen
Blu-Ray Drive: LG BH08LS20 (SATA)
DVD Drive: Pioneer DVR-216D SATA
Speakers: Altec ACS-48 (a 2.1 system that's 11 years old and still going strong!)
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
Mouse: Logitech Trackman Wheel (trackball)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit with all critical updates to date
Miscellaneous: IEEE 1394b PCI-e card
This leaves one PCI-e x16 slot and one PCI-e x4 slot open in my system. My new motherboard has only one PCI "legacy" slot whereas my previous Intel motherboard had three. It's time for the other motherboard manufacturers to follow suit and reduce the number of legacy connectors on their newer motherboards. Some of their latest and greatest models to date still have way too many legacy connectors taking up space that could have been utilized for newer features; for example, the Asus P6T series have only one PCI-e x1 slot but two PCI "legacy" slots, plus legacy floppy, IDE and PS/2 connectors up the wazoo on most models in the series. To Asus' credit, however, the P6T series have three full-length PCI-e connectors which make full use of the 36 PCI-e 2.0 lanes on the X58 chipset's IOH. The Intel X58 reference motherboard does not make full use of the 36 lanes since the board has only two full-length PCI-e 2.0 slots and thus is limited to 32 lanes; its PCI-e x4 slot uses the same PCI-e 1.x bus as the PCI-e x1 slots - the one that's connected to the ICH10R that's used with the X58 chipset. Plus, the only reason why most motherboard manufacturers choose to disable the chipset's dedicated LAN bus connection in favor of eating up one PCI-e 1.x lane with a PCI-e LAN controller from Realtek or Marvell is that the Intel LAN controller chips that are meant to be used with the chipset's dedicated bus cost Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers more money than the third-party PCI-e LAN controller solutions.
My only upgrade plans for the next couple of years would be to replace my existing video card with a workstation-oriented card since I hardly play games any more on this PC.
