Topic: I get to play with the big boy toyz

[RazalYllib]

This is the year i cast off the shackles and chains of 32 bit computation. I have used my refund from our good friends at the internal revenue service to upgrade.

After much handwringing on base specs, i settled on:

Intel® Core™ i7 920 Processor (4x 2.66GHz/8MB L3 Cache)

ASUS P6T SE -- Intel X58 Chipset CrossFire Supported w/8-ch HD Audio, Triple-Channel DDR3, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, 3 PCI-E MB

3 GB [1 GB X3] DDR3-1333 Triple Memory Module - Corsair XMS3 Dominator w/

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 - 2GB - Single Card

CoolerMaster HAF 922 Mid Tower case

Running win7 with all the bells and whistles.
This should be still pretty good box in 5 years i am guessing.
Already have a migration of data plan in place for my pair of machines, as wife/kids get my current box (amd duel core 4800+, 2 gig ram, pair of 7800 gtx nvidia in sli)
It gonna take a bit, but I can xfer all the data back and forth keep spouse happy not loosing her stuff.

For my SFC-OP needs gonna use my 200 gig spare drive as an "XP Only" boot device and install it to that drive and boot to it when I want to play around in xp os mode and play sfc. (or any other thing that wont run in windows 7 that might interest me)

Any advice on getting the best bang for tricking out the system for Seti or win7 in general would be helpful ...since i have the xtra horsepower, it would be nice to kick my out put up and I am certain someone has advice i could put into use.

[RazalYllib]

FINALLY, I have it--was not able to get the nvidia card. Vendor probs, so I had to settle for ATI 5870, which is more than enough horse power in the GFX dept for a while.

Have a whole lot of data to migrate now...wife is getting my old box and she bunch to back up so I can port over.

Naturally one of the first things I installed was the boinc client...

[marstone]

Naturally, Boinc is your friend.