New Computer arrived!

It's finally here! After just over 3 months of problems and waiting, my new computer arrived last week. Of course, I had to insure that it did indeed POST and had all the hardware that it was supposed to have (it did). After that, I installed 3dMark06 and had it take my new gaming rig through its paces. The score (if you don't want to follow the title link) was 7208. Yes, there are machines faster. Yes, I could probably optimize that and overclock the rig and get a better score. Oh, and yes the score will go down now that I've installed anti-virus (Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus Personal Edition). I've also turned off the integrated soundcard in favor of a Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeGamer with accompanying speakers (thank you Newegg!).

So why haven't I tweaked it? Well, first of all I had to get the sound system configured. I still don't know what was going on, but for some reason the speakers were only outputting this barely audible scratchy whisper on some of the speakers and nothing on the two peripheral front speakers. Then a couple of reboots later (and disabling AMD Live) it worked just fine! Second, my keyboard still isn't working quite right - it seems to lag a bit in DAoC. I'm thinking it's probably because it's a wireless so I need to change out keyboards and see what happens. Third, I want to rerun benchmarks and see what they look like now. And fourth, I haven't found a game yet that really takes my computer and hits it hard. I'll have to wait for NWN2 for that I guess.