So, I broke down and bought a new computer, even though I was planning on waiting for the 32nm refresh of Core i7.  What originally started as a CPU upgrade went a little overboard, and I wound up with the following:

  • Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz
  • ASUS Rampage II Motherboard
  • Corsair XMS 6GB (3×2GB) DDR3-1333
  • 2x EVGA 1GB Nvidia Geforce GTS 250
  • Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB 10k rpm
  • SONY SATA DVD-RW DL
  • Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 2250
  • Lian Li PC-P60 Case
  • Corsair 650W PSU
  • Samsung 24″ WUXGA(1920×1200) LCD TV
  • Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 (64bit)

So far, the machine is running great, and has no problems running Crysis at max settings at 1920×1200.  Of course, I’m not doing too much gaming, um, it’s for work, right? That’s what the video cards are there for, CUDA!  I do have it crunching through some distributed computing projects though, currently climateprediction and SETI@home (it looks like SETI@home puts my new rig at just over 2.6 GFLOPS).

I took a decent number of pictures, which I’m going to put online shortly, I’ll post a link when they’re up.

EDIT: Well, that GFLOPS number can’t be right, one of those GPUS alone should be doing ~470 from what I read… hrm, guess I need to run a real benchmark.

EDIT: And here are the pictures.