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There wasn't a problem with the sata or raid setup, the problem came from windows setup neglecting to tell me that it had actually loaded the raid drivers..........

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Glad you got it up and going rammy :D :D :D :tu:

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top result i reckon , 1 question though , would you do it again :erm: :D :D :D

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I would do it again.
.....btw.....I am typing on my new pc that's connected via it's onboard wi-fi :D

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Nice one Rammy - I have dished out a few reps as per your request :tu: Gaz

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:tu: Been watching this thread since the start well done any chance of some pics ?

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I have a lot of windows security patches to download.....not to mention SP2 :disturbd:
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Homealone is a bit confused :D

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No they don't.
On my board (Asus A8V Deluxe) it has to run off the VIA RAID controller so I have to do the same as Ramrod.

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Pics will be forthcoming.............first I have to set up 'my precioussssss' the way I like it :D
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I'm a bit concerned about whether my RAM is set up properly...........don't know what to do about it :confused:

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Download CPUZ from here:
http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-128.zip
Extract the ZIP, run the EXE and click on the RAM tab - this will tell you how many channels you are running at.

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Downloading SP2.....I may be some time :disturbd: :D
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Will do......thanks!
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Just realised...........this is insane...........it's taken two internet connected PC's and you lot to do this :disturbd: :nworthy:
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KP................I think that the rather noisy fan type sound is coming from the Geforce 6800 ultra (henceforth known as the 'helicopter')...........since you are building a two helicopter system, may I suggest earmuffs? :D

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nothing new there ;) - edited - thanks :)

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Yeah they do, you just disable the raid bios in your normal bios, rendering the ports as standard SATA controllers ;) Thats how my current Asus P4P800-E works ;) and i run my raid on there using a Promise sx-150 card :)

Unless of course the bios is completely different.... which i dont know why they would remove that system with a later board..... unless it causes issues with other parts of the board or something:confused:

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Why are you downloading SP2 when I sent it to you on CD ????

DOH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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damn i been out while you had all the fun

Way to go dude :D

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Thanks for your help m8!

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I just can't get my bluddy sound to work..............
It's an audigy 2zs. It should plug in, load drivers and pump sound through the headphones.
'Device is enabled', setup even shows the mic works but I just cant get sound.....anyone got any ideas? :confused:

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Have you disabled your on board sound in the bios? as windows is probably using the on board as default ;)

You can just get windows to use the other sound card easy enough, but i would recommend disabling the on board :)

Any probs give me a bell.... you know the number :)

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Have you disabled the onboard sound in the Bios ?
May be responsible for it.

[Edit: Phoenix beat me to it.]

I'm glad you are set up and all is working for you. It feels great having built that. I certianly remember feeeling well happy when I got my system up and running.

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ther isnt a mute on somewhere in control panel is there ????? :)

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Mute is not ticked :mad: :D

.......onboard sound is set to 'auto'...I'll try disabling it.....
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The asus mobo came with 3 months free norton internet security :D

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Can't dude, I won't have any SATA ports then. (I tried last year)

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It appears to be running in 'dual channel'
.........Thanks Rich :tu: :)

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Excellent.
I'll see you on CoD on Friday night then Sergeant! :D :sniper:

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Just installed and patched CoD :tu: :D
Doubt if I'll get as far as getting MOHAA:SH on today though....
........anyone remember how to place an IE shortcut onto the desktop? :dunce: :D

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Just drag it from the start bar?

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Drag it from the Start men, or quick task bar, but press and hold ctrl and shift while you do it.

(ctrl copies, shift moves, and ctrl-shift makes shortcut).

OR right click, goto New Shortcut, and point it at c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe

But using IE.. tsk tsk tsk.... :)

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Or right click on Desktop and select properties. Then select desktop tab. And choose Customise Desktop from the bottom of the window.

That way you get more than a shortcut, you can right click it and acccess the internet properties etc...

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How about Firefox ?

Link in Sig.

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Thats the one!--Thanks!

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And if you want a shortcut to a specific page, say, Cableforum for instance, just right click on the Desktop, select "New Shortcut" and type the address (say http://www.cableforum.co.uk ). :D

Anything that saves those extra couple of milliseconds so you can build up your postcount at Cableforum even more.. :D

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Disregard what I said about the noise levels.........it's 'cos it was next to me......now that the PC is in it's normal location I can hardly hear it :tu: :)

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132683 DMarks in 3DMark 03............any good?

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Um...you made a typo.
I don't think any machine will get that much until about 2030. :D
Take a screenshot of the score window by pressing ALT + Prt Scr then post it here.

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lol 13268 in 3dmark03 .......I didn't put a space inbetween the score and the rest of what I typed:D

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I get 6244 on this machine, using a 9800 Pro:
http://www.richardm.co.uk/blog/archives/000040.html

Not a bad score at all for yours. :)

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Where do I find the screenshot on my HD? :dunce:

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Open Irfanview then do edit > paste.
Save as a jpg to your desktop then attach to your post. :)

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Irfanview? :confused:
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....and thats not o/c'd :D
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Figured it out.....learn something new every day :dunce: :D ............Just have to find my photoshop CD and install that :dozey:

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Found my adobe elements CD......here's the screenshot :)

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This is the 3DMark03 result with CPU o/c'd 5% and GPU o/c'd by some random unspecified amount :D

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have you chucked doom3 or half life 2 at it yet?? Doom will be an experience :D :D

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Tempted to re-play HL2......... :D

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gotta be worth a go :D :D specially if you can transfer your saves and play the citadel again

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Hi Rammy.

It has been suggested that you deserve an award for your efforts and success.

So here is an award I may extend to others in the future. :D

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Never mind all that jazz with 03, run 3D Mark 05, my last result was 6073, with the system you've built you should easily surpass that.

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Why, thank you Incog! :)
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I'll give it a go........
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Hmmmmm............5690 and it doesn't run all the tests......any suggestions Bif? :confused:.............Are you perhaps running an ATI GPU (if that would make any difference)

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Some of you may remember that when I booted this PC up for the first time nothing happened till I swapped the RAM onto the other channels. I have swapped the RAM back to the original channels and it still works fine now :confused:
........btw, should I get another 1gig of RAM? Would it make any difference?

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The more RAM you have installed the better the PC will run and you'll be able to run more applications on it simultaniously.

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if you want to run dual channel you have to have the same amount of ram on each channel ie channel 1, 2 x 512 channel 2,1x 1 gig,I am not sure about your board but on a few ive seen if all 4 slots are populated the ram speed drops to 333

64 bit xp loves ram the more the better :)

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You might find that you have slightly higher latency.
Unless you do serious video editing or something like that then I wouldn't bother with the extra RAM - gaming doesn't need it yet.

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The benchmark of mine was run on a flashed X800 Pro running at higher clock speeds than the XT PE with an Athlon 64 3400 (running @ stock) on a ****y MSI K8N board. I haven't run it since I upgraded, here's the original url though http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=254626

If you're running an Athlon 64 4000 and a 6800 Ultra, I'd have expected you to get more, check you haven't got AA/AF enabled.

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Err, I think 1GB is enough. I have 1.28GB and my system never uses 800MB of it.

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AA & AF are 'application controlled' :scratch:
...any idea why it doesn't run all the tests?
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What about what zingle said re the 64 bit?

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World of Warcraft also needs boat loads of memory, far too much disk swappage with 1 gig.

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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/6...tion/top5.mspx

Upto 128 gigs worth (obviously for future use):D

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Some of the tests are only available in the retail version.

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.............Toddles off to buy more of the same memory :D
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So why the lowish score? :confused:

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If you really want to get a performance boost try a Linux distro :D Actually, it would be nice to see what Doom3 for Linux would be like on your machine compared with windows.

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Prolly because my card was clocked higher than yours, that's the only reason I can think of.

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lowish score .... pah, try those tests on mine, and prolly get about 2.

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Not really, you got the 6800GT, you would at least get 1000.

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The (presumably) CPU testing had the framerate in the 1's and 2's at some points :disturbd:
It was like 3DMark03 on my old PC :erm:

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Then again, Rich scored 2458 on the '05......so maby my score isn't all that bad :scratch:

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Richard has a previous gen. card though, you have a next gen card, reputedly the top of it's class ;)

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Do I detect some.....ribbing? :D

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5690? :cry:

My beast of a system, with its unbranded RAM, 2000XP chip running at 1.6ghz, and my scaled down 9600 graphics card gets 753 :cry:

The videos are amazing. Its a shame they don't offer the movies in high quality for download. What frame rate did yours render at mate?

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Well I thought I'd try it too ..

System

Motherboard: A7N8X-X
CPU: AMD Athlon 3200
Memory: 1 Gig DDR Single Channel PC2700 (333Mhz)
Graphics Card: Asus V9999 (GeForce 6800 GT)
FSB: 400Mhz

VSYNC, AA & AF OFF

First pic is everything standard.
Second is 6800 overclocked to max settings via Asus SmartDoctor.

Not too shabby :)

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Just a touch ;) considering the card I'm using retails for just over £220 now

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Git! Thats about 1000 less than me.........wtf am I doing wrong?! :mad:
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Well thats only £140 less than I paid! :p: :D

*considers defecting to ATI in the future* :disturbd::D
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I would like to add that I am very happy with my new PC and it is kick-ass :D
...........I just want to squeeze some more from it :disturbd:

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mine at stock
3800 xp 64
2x 512 kingston hyper x
standard ata 133 hdd(need to change this)
asus X800 xt pe

Will overclock tomorrow maybe :D
First pic stock on 32 bit xp 2nd pic stock on xp 64 bit small improvement but once drivers are totally sorted it should be more

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I'm so ashamed, I got 2548 3DMarks back in August 2004 and I run an FX53 :( (although that's with a 9800 Pro)
I really need ATI to release their dual video card technology soon.
Apparently it can support up to 256 cards at once, but just 2 will do me:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17889

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Why the hell would you need up to 256 graphics cards? You would probably need a whole AC unit in the system to cool them down :erm:

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I want to see KP's results! :erm:

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You want everything ;)

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I tried to run mine with an fsb overclock of 10 taking my 2400 to 2520,relaxed ram timings and overdrive gfx.Result freeze:( Im a very nervous bloke and i know i need to raise the voltage but where do you think my weak link is?

Amd 3800 xp64
kingston hyper x cas 2.5 @200mhz relaxed to cas 3
Asus X800 xp pe

Rammy are you running retail test or evaluation test i think your pc with pass the proverbial over mine if you run full tests

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Tsk .. people, for 3d Mark, post your ORB links not screenshots, no-one takes screenshots seriously ;)

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Evaluation test...aren't we all? :D
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Granted............but who would fake a cr*p result on a screenshot? :D

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Your soundcard beats my score in 2003 I dont have sound card :( so i didnt post :)

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People who's results are actually a lot crapper ;)

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phew just pipped you at 783. no wonder things go a little slower during COD for me.

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lol :D

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Now run 3dmark05 :D

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Lower than me mate, I get 1090 in 3DMark03. And no one ask me to run 3DMark05, as my Radeon 8500LE is Dx8, so Pixel Shader version 2 is not possible :(

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3dmark05 wont run on mine either.

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This is more like it!

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AMD's blurb but one things for sure it will be my christmas prezzie this year

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/V...~97108,00.html

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Dual-core is slower for gaming until they code the apps to run on both CPUs.

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:grind: :cry:

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I think its greatest benefit will be multi tasking,I used to watch my old hyperthreading pentium4 pretend it had 2 cpus,The 2 cores will just allow you to do regular number crunching better till the said code is written,A little side note,good old intel's low end dual core cpus dont have hyper threading so im not sure of how much better these will be than the old one,however the ludicrusly priced extreme edition does hyperthread giving 4 virtual cpu's

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can i claim slowest!!

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I almost feel ashamed to post in this thread, but just in case it helps...

I have an ATI 9800se 'All in Wonder' graphics card - yes, I know, but I wanted the TV tuner & a full, not 'se' AIW9800 was big bucks, at the time...

I heard of a 'softmod' driver that would turn on the extra 4 pipelines on the card & make it nearly equivalent to a full 9800 card, but the driver only worked with windows xp - I had win98se...

But then - I recently upgraded to XP and decided to try it.

I found uninstalling all existing drivers was the way to go - once the softmod driver & WDM files were installed in a 'clean' system I loaded my multimedia (MMC) package as another seperate install, using the cd supplied with the card. The trick here was using <shift> to avoid the autorun installation, which in my case kept overwriting the modded driver - groundhog day, anyone...

- so, running just the MMC install from the original cd restored my TV player

:cool:

- and my 3dmark3 score is now 5381 (athlon 2600, 512MB pc3200, 40GB 7200rpm ide)

nowhere near our 'bleeding edge' members, but, hey, I am old enough to be easily pleased ;)

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Thats a respectable upgrade to the card though nice one :)

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Run 3DMark05. ;)

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A slight improvement with 2gb ram.......

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Bet you've still got AA, AF and vsync on ...

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Just ran 05 with those disabled (rather than application controlled) and got 5682.........but I forgot to use the smart doc utility! Doh! :dunce:

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I ran 3Dmark05 on a 9800 128mb and was quite suprised that it coped with it....which I was pleased about.
Not great obviously and the scores are much better in 01 but still those test scenery in 05 loook pretty nice.

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After looking at the clock speeds on my card I've had to post on a support forum about what I found. The memory on mine is running at 184mhz (368mhz), which all of the 8500LEs I have found run at at least 225MHZ (450MHZ).

Will have to see what answer I get :scratch:

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Ive found them running even higher


http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2...e/index.x?pg=3

http://www.hwextreme.com/reviews/vid...le/page2.shtml

Just noticed to said at least my apoligies :)