My new baby is magnificent.

[theweaselking]

I have a new machine.

I am right now transferring all my important data to it, while surfing the web and installing Supreme Commander.

It is magnificent!

That is all.

Comments

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

Jealous. Started playing Age of Conan and want a new one myself. The five year old machine has finally met its match.

[geminiknight.livejournal.com]

Oh come on..you didn't really want double digit FPS did you?

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm watching a flash animation from 1997!

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

So give us the specs, monkey man!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Core 2 Quad 2.6GHz
4GB RAM
1 Terabyte 7200RPM RAID-5
GeForce 9800GX2 SLI graphics card
Twin 22W LCDs[1]

It is shiny!

[1]: Meaning I have to swap the SLI *off* when I want dual-heads. That's actually okay, for now - they're expecting a patch to fix that, so I can get SLI-out on both monitors at once, in a few months.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Very nice. How do the 9800s perform? I like my ATi card, but it's loud and the 9800 series is relatively cheap, so hey, easy upgrade!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Other people's benchmarks say the 9800GX2 is basically the fastest thing on the market. I only got a chance to make it dance briefly last night, but I plugged in Supreme Commander, set all the graphics settings to maximum, started a game with 6 opponents, and it played through *beautifully* without a single hitch for the entire skirmish.

So it's SPIFFY. Actual numbers will have to wait until I have time to sit down and really hammer on it.