New PC

After 6 years I am tired with my P3 and got a new one today.

This time I felt like assembling it.

I was waiting to get a Core 2 since long time. Initially I thought of taking an iMAC. That is coming up with new Core 2 ones. But I felt the cost factor beyond my limit.

Then I went ahead to buy an E6400 (2.13 GHz, 2MB Shared) model Core2 from Intel. And then the motherboard I wanted with Firewire support. Only Intel P865 chipset supports firewire. So I took ASUS TEK P5B Delux WIFI AP board. This costed a bomb. Final configuration came out like this.

1) Intel E6400 - 12.8 K
2) Asus TEK P5B Delux WIFI - 18K
3) RAM 1GB non ECC Trancend - 5.5K
4) SATA 160 GB Hard Disk - 3K
5) ATI X550 256 MB graphics - 4K
6) Microsoft wireless Keyboard and Mouse - 1.5 K
7) Zebronics Cabinet - 2.5 K
8) SONY 17" LCD - 13.9 K
9) LG DVD Writer - 2K

But Motherboard is good with dual LAN and WIFI. Yet the explore the performance.

Can anybody suggest clean tools to test overall system performance.