This place definitely encourages one to go out and upgrade. Its a good thing, unless one has just upgraded! I realize that whenever I buy pc parts, its basically obsolete immediately (with the exception of keyboards, mice, and monitors). Its just tough to resist the urge to upgrade again. Somone took my post the wrong way about my p4 2.4 oc to 3.0-3.3 (depending on ambient temps) not being enough. I was recently doing a lot of video editing which just destroyed my machine for hours on end. (8+ hours of work for one bit with cpu 100% maxed). When I come on here and I see that someone just put together a machine that benches 15% faster, that's a real world savings. When I'm not checking in on here, I'm more happy with the way the machine runs and can deal with it taking its time doing computationally complex work.

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