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 [...]

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In part 1 I presented my wishlist, in part 2 I showed you the parts, now it is time to assemble the parts.
I carefully took out the mainboard and placed it on top of my kitchen table an removed the socket plate.

The insertion of the CPU wasn’t complicated at all, it only fits in one [...]

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Finally the big packages arrived. The hardware I decided on before came in two packages and in three plastic bags. I got the hardware from two different dealers - what I could get locally was bought at a local store the rest ordered online. I began building a pyramid in my corridor.

Although I was [...]

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When your name is computhomas you have to get a new computer once in a while. My current workhorse was bought in march 2004 and although it was a solid pal most of the last years it didn’t make much fun to work with it for the last half year. A rising noice [...]

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