PC Upgrade!!!

[spikegifted]

Hehe... I've just finished upgrading my main rig with the following changes/additions:

Motherboard: changed to Iwill DH800 (i875P dual S604)
CPUs: changed to Xeon 3.06GHz 512kb 533MHz SL6VP (D1 stepping)
HSF: changed to Swiftech MCX-603 Rev. 2 x 2 (with GlobalWin 80mm fans)
PSU: changed to Tagan TG480-U01 EPS12V PSU
RAM: changed to Kingston HyperX PC3500 CL2.0 512MB x 4 (up from 1.5Gb previously)
HDD: added Seagate Cheetah 10k 18Gb

Here's what I'm clocking right now...

 

[Mloot]

Nice. What made you spend the extra dough for the DH800 vs. the PC-DL?

 

[spikegifted]

Nice. What made you spend the extra dough for the DH800 vs. the PC-DL?

Oh, it's a completely different class of board! The DH800 has a pair of PCI-X slots which the PC-DL doesn't and it supports 800MHz FSB Xeons, which the PC-DL can only dream of. While I only 64bit/66MHz PCI, it's nice to have the PCI-X. The 800MHz FSB is just such an excellent opportunity - Ok I'm too chicken sh!t to do the processor socket mod or the pin mod, but for some people it's easy enough... (see this over at 2CPU.com forums )