Some Overclocking

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This is mainly just for fun, but interesting nonetheless.  Currently I am running this processor at 3.5 GHz, and its working out pretty well considering that I am using an Intel stock cooler, which is a piece of garbage.  Once I get my other cooler in place, I should be able to go much higher with the frequencies.  (Really this is just for fun.)

Video Card!

Well, a friend agreed to lend me this video card for a while, an ATI Radeon X1650 PRO .  I will be getting another video card for myself in the next week or two.  This bad boy made the system a whole lot louder.  I will be running a few 3D benchmarks just for fun.

Well, the system as is scores 2140 in 3Dmark06, a 3D benchmark.  For comparison, my old computer that I recently replaced scored over 9000.  It's incredible how far technology has come in a few years...  3DMark06 Score

Benchmarking

Doing some quick benchmarks before I start overclocking.  This is a benchmark called Super Pi, which uses the processor to calculate pi to a varying amount of digits.  It took the system 53.3 seconds to calculate one million digits of pi.