Intel i7

Due to reliability problems with my office computer, I have upgraded to an Intel i7 -3770 @3.4Ghz with 16Gig ram and an SSD. It is running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and at the moment is running with Hyper-threading turned off.
This is going to hopefully speed up the rate at which I can find primes for PrimeGrid.

On the topic of PrimeGrid, as I write this, we are in the middle of their base 5 Riesel "Fathers Day" challenge and I dragged a few of the older machines out of the store-room for the occasion. The obvious down side is that these machines take well over 6hrs to complete a work unit.