The Build Saga: Part Sixteen.

I am still waiting on pictures, sorry.

That being said, we are at completion.  We have moved past benchmarks and stability testing and are now giving it some mostly-daily abuse in real gaming.  I've been playing WoW, CoD and some D3 lately.  None of these games are really cutting edge, but it runs them like a dream.  It stands up to anything I put in its way.

The next step, now that we are all stable, is going to be overclocking.  I am going to be working out temps over the next week.  I live in a very hot and very humid state for a majority of the year.  It is the beginning of March and we hit 70 back in February, if that is any indication of how awful it is to live here.  Now that we are seeing consecutive 70+ degree days, it sucks.  The lows are dipping just barely into the 40s and it looks like it will just be getting warmer.  This means that we are going to be limited on the overlocks, due to our ambient temps.

This isn't a bad thing.  Once I get all of the extra people (my sister-in-law has lived with me for about 3 months and my father-in-law for over a year) out of my house, which I expect to happy by the end of April at the very latest, I will be moving my setup to a cooler part of the house.  I look forward to this greatly.  I will be on the first floor, instead of the second, and I will be in a room with a door, instead of in a corner where my two year-old can yank everything off my desk.  Once this happens I will probably do some further work with overclocking, I'm not going to press it too hard just yet.

For the CPU I want to get it to 4 GHz.  Going beyond is fine, but 600MHz is a pretty good increase in power.  I do not plan to try and take it to 4.6 or 4.8GHz, I am not that kind of enthusiast.  For my GPU I am looking for a 10% boost in performance.  With the new cards and the way that they basically overclock themselves... I'm not sure how this will work or if it will ultimately be all that beneficial.  It is worth a shot and I want to get as much performance as I can out of this thing.  I spent a lot of money on this rig and expect it to perform well.

I promise that pictures are coming!