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I’m presently installing Gentoo onto my new box. I pretty much had to decimate my finances, and go into minor debt, but it’s black and shiny and oozes number crunching power.

So here it is…

Antec P180B Case (the updated version with the features of the P182)
Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus Mainboard
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB Video Card
Corsair 620HX Power Supply (yay for modular cabling!)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU
G.SKill 2×1GB DDR2 800 ‘HZ’ RAM
Seagate Barracuda ES 320GB SATA HardDrive
Samsung SATA 18X DVDRW with Lightscribe (No More PATA for me!)
Logitech LX710 Cordless Desktop

So far so good. I might add in a discrete sound card, but probably not; just depends on how it performs. Creative is still sitting on X-Fi drivers for Linux, so until they’re released that is totally out of the question. I’ve been considering a HT-Omega Striker though, I’m impressed with it, but I guess we’ll see.

Oblivion is so fast that I can barely control myself, as I’m used to the considerably slower GeForce 6200.

I have several MIR to deal with, that should help a bit. Sadly, my brother warned me of the drop in memory prices and I didn’t heed the warning. It was on sale when I bought it, but my RAM dropped about $30, but oh well, the price I paid was pretty sweet anyway.

The next step is a big fancy widescreen LCD. That’ll replace my aging Sony LCD, though it’s still quite nice.

I’m totally lost when it comes to setting up the ‘overclocking’ in the BIOS, it is set to “auto” right now, but it doesn’t display what the settings are. I don’t even know if my memory is running at the proper settings, hah. I did manually set the timings to 4-4-4-12 2T, no problems thus far, but that’s what it’s rated at, so it better work! :)