Wow, obviously the new computer (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) is working great, but I still owe you the objective numbers of the benchmarks.

  Old computer
(3GHz P4, 1.5GB, Radeon 9800XXL)		 New computer
(4×2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 8800 GTS 640MB)		 New computer overclocked
(4×3.0GHz)
Cinebench 10 Single CPU 1721 2475 3088
Cinebench 10 Multi CPU 2007 8735 10860
3DMark2006 985 9737 10118
PCMark05 - - 8913

Unfortunately I did the PCMark benchmark only with the new PC but the other benchmarks were quite impressive for me. The biggest difference between the old and the new system is graphic power: A modern graphic card like the Gainwad 8800 GTS is such a big jump compared to the four years old Radeon.

The overclocking doesn’t give much advantage at the 3DMark benchmark but as expected at the CPU heavy Cinebench.
The 25% overclock leads to a 24,76% better performance with one core, a 24,33% better performance with all four cores but only to a 3,91% better 3DMark performance.

More important than the synthetic benchmarks is the subjective impression - and that is that i absolutely love the new machine.

Do you know of any usefull benchmarks or have a comparison between your old and new machines?

Read part 1 of the building a new computer series here.

Read part 2 of the building a new computer series here.

Read part 3 of the building a new computer series here.