It's a sweet setup. Dell 690 1kw machine. Dual/Dual cpus, XP64, Quadro4600, 8GB ram dual 15k drives, and that great big 30" LCD.

Out of the box it's a really quiet machine. No, not sound quiet, though I can't really hear it over the ambiant. It's computationally quiet. I loaded the sysinternals filemon and regmon. Neither shows hardly any activity, unless I'm actively doing something. Quite unlike the corporate paranoid-ware laden pc this will be replacing.

One thing I like is that the machine arrived with a standard load of XP64 on it. Not one sign of bloat ware!!! Not even the seemingly obligatory 60 day trial of Office. The only thing on the desktop was the trash bin. Woot indeed!

To bad I have to let the system admins muck it up. Their idea of configuring a new machine is to copy the disk image of an existing machine over what is currently installed. Never mind that the hardware in the machine is unlikely to be the same rev through out as that machine purchased a month ago.