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ouch..... look at the colour :( ;)

Nah.. im waiting on the FX-57 now... due out in the next 2 weeks or so :)

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I'll believe that when it's sitting under a heatsink on your mobo :D

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mmmm..... me too :( we'll see...

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Overclockers have venice 3800xp chips in stock and are allowing pre order on the 3700 and 4000 san diego chips available soon

http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=45014

venice vs san diego

If the prices quoted are correct I think I might have to make new friends accross the pond :D

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Nice job, I thought you'd gone for 2 x 6800U's though?

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They are ultras :( not sure why they come up as GTs.. in my device manager they just come up as NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU, but in the geforce settings window (screenshot) theyre listed as ultras....

Ive also done a little overclocking, and my 3dmark05 score is now 9875 :D

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=797432

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I thought PCI-E was 16x? :erm:

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Not when you run SLi, it has to be 2 8x channels.

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Learn something everyday :dozey:

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Hey KP, what temp are you running at? I'm at 39/32 degs C...............

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Ok, you are all depressing me now :(

I have an Athlon Xp 3000+, 1Gb of DDR, nvidia GeForce 5700 - 256Mb card, mirrored 160Gb SATA drives, and a fresh install of XP - my 3DMark05 score in less than 700 :(

Mind you - it runs HL2 and CS:Source with full resolution etc really well..

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That's a bit low........Did you turn av etc off?

Demonstrating how silly benchmarking can be :D

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Pretty sure I did - but will run it again to make sure :(

True - but it does seem a bit low for a resonably spec'd system.

Maybe I need to look at whether it is set up correctly (jumpers etc) as the CPU never really works hard, and the temp never seems to go above 30C

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link doesnt work

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Will check when i get it, i think its idle temp is around 42 after running for 24 hours
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That one was turned off, to show my better score... (it appears i can only publish 1 score at a time) the link to my new score is on the page before this one :)