Time for an upgrade..

[mikekim]

UPDATE:

Decided to make some changes to the kit list:

Asus Rampage III (replacing the UDR3 which was supplied with faulty socket pins)
OCZ IBIS (replacing the Revo, which has gone end of life)
Asus GTX 580 (for the 5850 Toxic)

and added a set of Logitech Z5500's

behold.... its like all your christmases have arrived at once




installation was a breeze with the coolermaster case, as it has a removable motherboard tray. (the small card next to the 580 is the HDSL interface for the IBIS)




completed installation in case, prior to tidying cables



boots into windows is about 10 seconds from cold.

had a dabble with overcloking (well i picked the 4ghz option in the bios ) runs stable- will look on pushing it to around 4.5 in the next couple of weeks



performed a slight OC on the GTX580 up from 782/2004 to 950/2194 seems to be running stable with no issues.

as for the speed increase comparison to my previous system...

when I originally installed my old system (Q6600, 8MB, GTX260) i benchmarked it on Aquamark (after finding the patch to enable it to run on vista) and scored 81,000, which i thought was pretty good at the time.

I have just installed and run the same benchmark on my new system and scored 250,000.

haven't got around to trying wow yet, but cant see it being a problem running 5 instances from this machine with high details.