"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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*JimH* wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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*JimH* wrote:

Harry, there is a button or link on the summary page that says
something like "show me my score" after the test is run. You will
then get a numerical score based on your test results. All I have been
asking you to do for the past 24 hours is to post that number.

Got it? Good because I will not explain it to you again.

First I've heard of that button from you.
My score was 1779. I saved the page as an *.rtf, and I have to figure
out how to convert that to a *.jpg.

I believe you. That is a very high score and it beats the computers in
this house, the newest one being 2 years old. If I recall the highest
score I got was in the 1500's.

You have a fast computer Harry.

It is good to run tests every so often over at PC Pitstop and take the
advice on how to tweak your computer to its maximum speed.



I converted the *.rtf to a *.jpg. Here's the URL:

http://tinyurl.com/7zkqu


The motherboard is an ASUS P5WD2 Premium. running the 955X chipset.
I installed an Intel retail P4 775 CPU, running at 3.4, a gig of
high-speed ram, and one really FAST 10,000 rpm hard drive, with a slightly
slower drive for "storage."

Since I don't run games much, I bought an ordinary ATI video card.

I could have built a significantly faster Intel-based box, but I had no
reason to do so. For the kind of work I do, mostly text-based, the hangup
is not the CPU, the memory, or the video. It typically is the hard drive.

I've stuck with ASUS motherboards over the years. I like them. I'm sure
there are faster, but what I need most is rock steady in my desktop.

My previous ASUS has built-in SCSI drive support, but the new SATA hard
drives seem a bit faster than SCSI.

Cheers.




Nice set up. ASUS makes a nice motherboard, as does Abit.

If you are into overclocking the DFI Lan Party motherboard with an AMD
Athlon 64 X2 4800+1 ghz FSB socket 939 dual core processor kicks ass,
especially when provided with a nice chunk of DDR400 memory. My next
machine will have that setup.