Mainboard: ASUS P5B Deluxe
CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6600@3.2 GHz*
RAM: 2 GB Patriot Memory 4-4-4-12@900 MHz**
Sound card: Creative SoundBlaster Augigy 2 ZS***
HDD: Western Digital 320 GB (16 MB cache)****
Monitor: BenQ FP91G P (19")*****
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium******
Notes:
*cooled by a
Noctua NH-U12P
** Sadly I won't be able to upgrade my RAM without buying a completely new set because Patriot stopped producing the "unrated" version which runs on lower voltage by default and can be overclocked quite heavily - if I were to raise the latencies I could go all the way up to 1 GHz
*** I don't really care for sound cards ;-)
**** I don't know why people need so much space on their HDDs. I have 1 system partition, 1 data partition and a separate swap partition and none of them is more than half full. I also dual-boot with Linux and still can't use that much space. OK, I have a fileserver at home but I guess some people must have very, VERY untidy hard drives. :-P
***** with a MVA matrix (manufactured by Samsung, I believe) for REAL true color graphics. The size doesn't always matter and TN matrices are the crap of the crap. BenQ is very, VERY cheap and has very, VERY bad quality control. I had to test no less than 4 monitors for dead pixels before I found one that didn't have any
****** I didn't have a SINGLE total system failure or BSoD for over one year of using Vista, which I couldn't say about WinXP in its early days before all the service packs (in fact I went back to Win2K and have been using it all the way until Vista came out). Now that the drivers got better Vista is at least as fast as WinXP and sometimes even faster when it comes to games. Most people whining about Vista haven't used it for more than a week or didn't bother to configure it properly. Yes, it isn't a very good product from a marketing standpoint (too many versions, far too long development etc.) but it isn't total crap like some people claim and there's no reason to NOT go with Vista if you're getting yourself a new computer. Also, the lack of compatibility with certain apps (I didn't have any problems with it but I know some people have) stems from lazy developers not adapting to the new OS despite having dev kits and alpha versions of the system like one year before its release.
P.S.
with capped 60fps due to vync because no vsync disorders some graphics for me
Turning VSync off is ALWAYS bad except for benchmarks or cases where you have very high screen refresh rates (mostly on CRT monitors) or your average FPS are close to your refresh rate. VSync only caps your FPS at your monitor's refresh rate and turning it off will only cause screen tearing, not REALLY increase the visible FPS since your monitor can't display more than its refresh rate anyway. Turning VSync off to "gain performance" is a myth spread by clueless tech-wannabes (probably the same ones who claim that cleaning your prefetch folder will speed up Windows or that you have to defragment your HDD like twice a day). Of course there are cases where bugs in the drivers (most famously in the Forceware Drivers) cause problems and FPS fluctuations with VSync turned on but that's another story and an exception to the rule. =)
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Cards are cheaper and better if you'd ask me, although the 9800gx2 is the highest scoring card.
