Spent a significant chunk of the Memorial Day weekend building my son's new PC, installing WinXP & applications, and then optimizing performance. Unless you're a PC geek like me, this won't make much sense to you, but I was able to get the Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 Wolfdale processor (2.66 GHz stock clockspeed) up to 3.68 GHz so far (8x460 MHz FSB), with the G.Skill DDR2 1066 memory running at 1104 MHz. So I've already gotten a "free" extra 1 GHz of processing power, and it may even do a bit more. But that'll be gravy, because it's already screaming along pretty nicely! Together with the Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT 512MB video card I installed, this machine just eats up games. I watched my son run Call of Duty 4 for a while, and the 3D image quality is just flat amazing, and the frame rates look smooth as silk. Quite a machine. System components are:

All parts from NewEgg.com. Pretty amazing performance for a tad over $700!