System Details

Case	Dimensions: width height depth weight	22.5cm 54cm 46.3cm x
Case	Coolermaster Praetorian 732
PSU	600W FSP FX600-GLN Epsilon
Motherboard	Asus A8N-SLi Premium NF4 S939
CPU	AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4400+
GPU	BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
RAM	Corsair TwinX Pro
Soundcard
Hard Drives	2 x 36.7Gb SATA Western Digital Raptor
Optical Drives	Sony DWQ30AB2 DVD±RW Sony Black 16x DVD-ROM
Keyboard	Saitek Eclipse Keyboard PZ-30AX
Mouse	Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000
Modifications	Raptor Gaming P2 Pad
Monitor	Dell 3007WFP @ home Dell 17" flat panel @ LANs

Benchmarks

Please note these are with my old 7800GTX. I'll update with my 8800GTS asap.

Further Information

The Pearl, named after the pirate ship from the Pirates of the Carribean for those non film buffs, is the first PC I've built myself. Previously I've owned a HP machine and an Alienware. Pearl takes pride of place in the living room where it acts as a media centre. Thanks to my 8800 GTS I can now enjoy games at the native res on my lovely Dell 3007WFP. I tend to only play on Saturday mornings, thanks to an endless workload, meeting up with some of the others from the group online or just conquiring the world in Rome Total War on my own. My plans for the next year is to maybe change the CPU to but as that means a whole new motherboard I'm still thinking about it. I will be getting Vista in June/July.