I thought I’d post the specs of my newest rig. It’s named P-PC (Long Story)

• AMD Phenom II x4 955 BLACK edition CPU (3.2GHz native, currently running @ 3.42GHz)
• Gigabyte 790XT – UD4 Socket AM3 motherboard
• Visiontek ATI Radeon HD 4870 GDDR5 1GB PCIe x16 Graphics adapter
• 2x2GB OCZ High Performance DDR3 1600 Memory (Low Voltage) (Board only supports 1066 native, but I over-clocked it to the full spec)
• OCZ Game(X)Strean 600W Power Supply
• CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (W/ Direct HeatPipe Contact)

It’s not a super super beast. But she does what I want of it. The slowest bit on the machine is that I currently have 2x250GB Sata1.5gb/s drives on it… Which lowers my Windows Experience Index from 7.4 (determined by processor) to 5.3.

I did finally get, and have Windows 7 Ultimate installed. You can see my 3D Mark Vantage Basic results here.

It plays GuildWars like a dream. In fact, I was playing GuildWars on the Primary Monitor (Viewsonic VA2226w 22inch LCD @ 1680×1050) whilst I had a 720p MP4 of Bruce Almighty simultaneously playing full screen on the Secondary Monitor (ACER P205H 20inch LCD @ 1600×900) and the movie never sputtered once, and GuildWars was consistently doing over 60fps.

I’ve played FarCry2 and Bioshock (the Original) with not an issue. Well, at the beginning of Bioshock it sputtered for a second once I was initially dumped in the water). Fallout3 had issues with the opening cinematic, it was stuttering briefly, but I think that might have been a drive access issue.

QuakeLive plays almost TOO fast/Smoth, and one of my favorite games, RollerCoaster Tycoon III runs beautifully also (once I let windows choose the desired settings for the installer).

I plan to install more of my favorite classic games, like UnrealTournament 3, and then entire Quake series when I get a chance.

N-E-Ways, that’s all I have for now. I just wanted to take a moment, and brag about my new computer.

-P/KAF/PT