Huzzar! Finally my new computer has been built, overclocked and tweaked so as it can finally be labelled as finished!
As this was my first build and I live in a heavilly carpetted and cat-inhabited house I was somewhat skeptical about spedning a boat-load of money on static-hating computer components. But once my room was filled with boxes of graphics cards and processors aprehension turned into glee as my computer took shape.
Of course, when you get a new computer you can't help but go back and play your old games to see how much it beats the living daylights out of old one.
Crysis actually runs, smoothly - success! Even at 1680x1050 the game runs smoothly, plus with the added help of this mod it looks fantastic.
Oblivion has at last been tamed. Once a game that killed my old 7900GS has itself been defeated, as I have installed Quarl's texture pack, put everything to high and forced 8xQSAA on it and it still runs smooth as silk. Randomly attacking Imperial Guards and getting mauled and killed to death has never looked so good.
World in Conflict was a tricky one. It was better than my old computer, as I could turn up everything to high and have the game still run, but it wasn't the blisteringly smooth thing that I had expected it to be. However, after I overcloked my processor to 3.4Ghz I was able to turn on DX10 rendering and it now plays above 30 FPS at all times. Ooooh pretty explosions...
So yes, after all yapping I guess I should post my specs:
ASUS P5N-D nForce 750i
Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.4GHz
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
4GB Corsair 800MHz RAM
500GB 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda, 32MB Cache
2 x 8800GT in SLi
Corsair 620W HX Modular PSU
CoolerMaster Dominator Case
Yum yum :) I have to give a special thank you to SonicSurfer for a lot of help he gave me regarding basically the whole build, including giving me the right OCing frequencies, which without I probably wouldn't have known where to start to overclock and ended up setting my new comp on fire.
I'm also using Vista 64, and I don't care what people say - it runs great. I did have XP Pro installed but it was laggy and buggy so I switched to Vista which beats it hands-down.
The bottom line is I built this awesome comp myself and it makes every frag I get that much sweeter.