My old rig contained the following items which were replaced:
Asus A8N32 SLI-Deluxe motherboard
AMD 4400+ Dual Core CPU (stock fan)
Kingstone HyperX Ram (2 x 1048 MB & 2 x 512 MB)
2 x EVGA 8800 GTX GPU in SLi
2 x Seagate HDD 120 GIG in Raid 0
2 x Seagate HDD 250 GIG
Microsoft Vista Home Premium 32-bit OS
Powercom 1000 KVa UPS
Above was replaced with the following in my new upgraded rig:
Asus Crosshair II Formula motherboard
AMD Phenom X4 9950BE CPU
Zalman CNPS 9300AT CPU fan
OCZ DDR2 PC-2 8500 / 1066 MHz / Reaper HPC Edition / Dual Channel RAM (4 x 2 GIG)
2 x EVGA GTX 280 GPU in SLi
2 x Seagate HDD 80 GIG in raid 0 as main drive
2 x Seagate HDD 500 GIG (one for my games, the other for my documents, pictures, music, etc)
Microsoft Vista Ultimate 64-bit
MGE Nova AVR 1250 UPS with power management system
The following items have been retained and form part of my new upgraded rig:
Antec P180 PC Case
Antec TruePower Quattro 850W PSU
Creative Audigy 2ZS Platinum Pro sound card
Samsung SyncMaster 226BW 22" wide screen monitor
Logitech Z5500 speaker system
Logitech G15 keyboard
Logitech G7 mouse
SteelSeries SX mouse pad
Logitech ClearChat Pro USB headset
Logitech Force 3D Pro joystick
At this point I was actually planning to direct any interested parties to the "For Sale" or "Classifieds" section as I would like to sell most of the items/components that I have replaced (plus one or two others I have which I have upgraded from prior to this current upgrade, eg 2 x 7900 GTX's), but somehow the "For Sale" or "Classifieds" section has dissapeard/vanished - great pity that
Anyway, to continue - .......................
Here are some benchmark results of my new rig compared to my previous system:
Edit - 3DMark Vantage on this page (close to bottom):
http://forums.pcformat.co.za/viewtopic. ... a&start=75
Edit - 3DMark 06 on this page (close to bottom):
http://forums.pcformat.co.za/viewtopic. ... start=1065
Very happy with this setup
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