Our current test rig that we use for all testing is actually Marauder's home/gaming/work system. We're not sponsored and we have no money so one computer has to wear many hats. The upside is that at least this is a good excuse to have a pimping computer. Excuses are good.

Here's the specs:

Thermal Take Matrix VX mid tower case
ASUS P5N32 SLI Premium motherboard
Intel Core 2 e6600 CPU
Stock cooling
2 x 1gb Corsair DD2 667 Dominator RAM
300 gig Seagate PATA boot hard drive (7,200 RPM)
250 gig Seagate SATA movie editing drive (7,200 RPM)
2x 320 gig Seagate SATA data hard drives (7,200 RPM, mirrored)
Sony 1.44 floppy drive
LG 16x DVD-ROM drive
LG 16x DVD-/+RWdrive
MSI Geforce 8800GTX PCI-E video card
Creative Labs SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum sound card
Windows XP Home
Logitech G15 keyboard w. shiny LCD
Logitech G5 optical mouse
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick
Viewsonic VG920 19" LCD monitor, LG Flatron 19" LCD Monitor
Plantronics headphones w. mic.

Total cost on this system is frankly more than I like to think about. So I don't. How does it benchmark? Rather impressively. I've listed the old test rigs for comparison.

The new rig, Core 2 E6600, 2 gig Corsair Dominator, MSI 8800GTX

Aquamark - 107,069
3dmark 2001 - not tested
3dmark 2003 - 31,596
3dmark 2005 - 13,574
3dmark 2006 - 9,490
Doom 3 (Timedemo1) Ultra mode:
99.9 fps (1280x1024, aa off)
100.0 fps (1280x1024, aa 2x)
100.1 fps (1280x1024, aa 4x)
89.3 fps (1280x1024, aa 8x)
100.4 fps (1600x1200, aa off)
99.9 fps (1600x1200, aa 2x)
95.8 fps (1600x1200, aa 4x)
71.6 fps (1600x1200, aa 8x)
The 8800GTX wouldn't run any 16x AA tests.

The old AMD XP64 3500+, 2 gig corsair pro, Dual MSI 7800gt SLi

Aquamark - 67,989
3dmark 2001 - 22,789
3dmark 2003 - 22,890
3dmark 2005 - 9,331
3dmark 2006 - 3,882
Doom 3 (Timedemo1) Ultra mode:
74.6 fps (1024x768, aa off)
73.8 fps (1600x1200, aa off)
72.6 fps (1600x1200, aa 2x)
66.9 fps (1600x1200, aa 4x)
26.3 fps (1600x1200, aa 8x)
26.5 fps (1600x1200, aa 16x)

The old AMD XP64 3500+, 2 gig corsair pro, x800 Pro

Aquamark - 60,979
3dmark 2001 - 20,028
3dmark 2003 - 10, 096
3dmark 2005 - 4,867