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The second link shows the 128MB version, I have the 64MB version and also mine has no TV or VGA out, only DVI (so it's half the size).

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Finally got mine sorted...

Heres my 3dmark05 score

Sorry about the file, but having NO software kinda makes it difficult to do anything :erm:

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tsk .. now that needs to be proved with an ORB link ;)

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Nice one KP........don't listen to that Bifta......what does he know anyway? :D

Just changed my PCI setting in the BIOS:

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I ran it again to see if i could get the ORB without buying it, and i got a score of 9266 this time :) :) :) :)

http://service.futuremark.com/servle...ojectId=794195

Now to consider a bit of overclocking etc..... :D

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Show off :( :D

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This is a bit better.............5% CPU o/c, GPU screaming it's guts out and settings set for 'performance' rather than 'quality'

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Works ok here :S.... might be a cookie or something for me though :(

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This is the absolute mine will do not even close to KP ,Things well hot now :Yikes: so I now give up

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Rammy, there's no point in overclocking your system, it's powerful enough to show no frame drops any way :erm:

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I know, I'm happy with it--just wanted to squeeze a 6K+ score from it :p: :D
I could probably do a little better than that one if I was to tweak the nvidia driver settings further.
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Nice score.......what are you running?

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Some people are never satisfied until they break their systems :rolleyes: :D

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Nah, I've throttled it back to no o/c and 'quality' rather than 'performance' settings :)

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I was comparing my 3dmark05 on futuremark, against someone thats got a 10000+ score.... basically exactly same kit, apart from an FX-55, and he overclocked his gpu....

Im contemplating the overclock.... just to see what i get :D

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overclocked to the point of near death and settings dropped like yours 3800 with asus x800 xt pe kingston hyper x ram (had to lower latency and up voltage on this)

This ones default settings with overdrive activated big drop :(

your machine is quicker than mine at stock settings and im sure it will be quicker than mine overclocked,Im waiting for gigabyte to release a dual core 6800 ultra then its christmas for dual core

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Hmm, the new Gigabyte 3D1 kit (which has a SLI motherboard, and the Gigabyte 6600GT dual GPU card) gets a score of 6000 in 3DMark05, and it's cheaper to buy than what Rammy got. I may just go for the kit later on this year :)

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So you are saying that I got a slightly higher score than a SLi? :erm:

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There will be a 3d1 set up with dual ultra core me hopes,the 3d1 only has 128 meg ram per core admitted its clocked quite high but its not enough,imo if that set up has a bottle neck it will be ram

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I just had a quick browse on the futuremark forums and my score is not too shabby at all for a single GPU 6800ultra (especially since i haven't gone overboard in o/c'ing it either) :)
Biftas is incredible, and KP's is just obscene :D

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Ive just ran 3dmark05 on my old PC (after a fresh format and driver installation etc.)

Its a

P4 3.2
2Gb DDR PC3200
Geforce 5900 Ultra 256Mb DDR
Audigy 2 ZS


It gets a score of 1240 :Yikes: :Yikes:

I would of thought it would of been higher than that.... so thats some upgrade just completed......

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You clocked yours. This was the driver settings set to quality and set to default clocks. And it's not a complete SLI system like KP's, it uses SLI to use both GPUs on the card (the 2 GPUs are on the SAME card).

Still, including an AMD 64 3500+ Venice CPU it's going to cost £535 ;)

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I am an ati fanboy but I will mostly likely buy nvidia next,all depends on if ati get it together and create there version of sli,But ive read somewhere you can (if a board ever exists) use quite a few more than 2 cards
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It certainly is good value,a friend of mine bought it and put a 3200 in it,after a few teething troubles its now rock solid and it flies seeing as the mobo with gfx and chip would have cost less than my 3800 when i bought it

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Ah i found the correct link for the orb of my 3dmark05 on the new rig

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=794195


:)

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I found this for sale on e-bay. Not bad at all! If it had been up sooner I might have gone for it :disturbd:

edit--hell Kp, you should have gone for it and just plugged another 6800 ultra into it :D
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Or how about this fx-55 :D

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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 :)

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http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?c...=main&id=28102

for u wannabes 64bit whores :D. It lets u upgrade ur 32 bit copy of Windows XP to the 64 bit for free and u only have to pay for postage.

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:confused: Thats the one i looked at

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from xp goes gold thread
QUOTE from microsoft website
In order to be eligible to receive Windows ® XP Professional x64 Edition, your computer must have been ordered between March 31, 2003 and July 31, 2005 with Microsoft Windows ® XP Pro (32 Bit) preinstalled

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Temp was 52/39 after about a hour playing HL2......

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This link works fine for me

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

:)

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What you using to get your temps btw??

mine is at 45 whilst watching video playback...

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The ASUSprobe utility that came with the mobo

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Installed HL2 again today. It looks really awesome on this PC :tu: :)
Just been shot at when underwater and I could see the bubbles of air in the bullet trails in the water :shocked:

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The citadel is a good graphical level isn't it, the whole section where you just look at the eye candy on the monorail :D
Wake up Mr Freeman you have a new toy to play with :LOL:

I dunno if you get it on your pc but do you intermitantly get the odd glitch with HL2?? In 32 bit xp it freezes every now and again just for a second,but on xp 64 it does it less for me

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Does that to me. Already reported it to Valve who havn't replied in 3 weeks (this support ticket has been open for over a month).

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No freezing here..........sounds fine as well..........

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The sounds on HL2 is what amazes me. Even with only 2 speakers it sounds amazing.

Oh, and there is a big difference between Dx7 and Dx8 on HL2 ;)

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I suspect I'm using Dx9c :D

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Yeah, it looks much better with the PS 2 shaders. :)
I was pretty amazed by the water thing, just wait until you get to see the doors later on inside the houses with the "frosted" glass, that was their most complicated shader IIRC.

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It looks good with PS 1.4 (which my card supports). I don't see the "frosted" glass though, looks like that's a Dx9 shader :(

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Hmmmmm............my mobo fan has suddenly become a bit louder (for the last couple of hours or so) ....wonder if it's thinking of giving up the ghost? How easy are these things to replace? :scratch:

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Cannot wait for my rig as I have HL2 and Cs-Source with my Steam account.

Have to join you guys I was pretty good at CS-Source last time I played breifly at my mates. I only died every 15seconds :D

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Gonna do a transfer to a new tower/case next week, my 1st attempt at getting my hands inside my PC, but i was a dab hand at panel jockeying when i had my TV shop, so i can't see it being much harder, or am i missing something?

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I don't know that much about computer's, but would this seem like good value ?

If so I might try it :erm:

If that has been posted before, apologies in advance :tu:

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You want a kit? whats your max spend? onboard graphics is a no no if you want to play games but if you just want to build an office pc then you will be fine,or you could add a better gfx and more memory,it all depends what you need the machine to do,I would always spend top end of your budget as this ensures you get the best you can


this is one from over clockers no case or graphics

AMD Athlon "Mobile" XP2500-M Barton 266FSB (Socket A) CPU - OEM (CP-076-AM) (very overclockable)
Akasa AK-827 Ultra Quiet Copper Base CPU Cooler (Socket A) (HS-013-AK)
Abit NF7-S v2.0 nForce2 (Socket A) Motherboard (MB-028-AB)
Corsair 512MB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS2.5 Kit (2x256MB) (MY-043-CS)
£138.94 £138.94
Subtotal £138.94
VAT £24.32
Total £163.26

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Very easy, but you might have to remove the motherboard to get the clips out from behind, I'd recommend replacing it with a passive Zalman heatsink (if your video card doesn't obscure it that is)

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Thats what I was thinking.........already been onto quietpc.com regarding which heatsink is appropriate...........of course, this morning the fan sounds fine :rolleyes: :D

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Just got my zalman zm-nb47j northbridge heatsink today...........now to fit the bugger :D

On another note--I just connected another case fan and bios can see it's spin speed but the asus utility cannot :confused:

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Here we go.....northhbridge exposed, cleaned, heatsink fitted, old fan bits
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Currently at 31 C :)

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Taking photo's of fitting a northbridge heatsink .. you're going to turn into Professor Frink too.

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That was just for information purposes....It's been at 32 C for the last 3 hours so I think it's been a success :p:

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Run Far Cry for 3 hours and see how well it does then. :D

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nice stress test for it :erm: :D :D :D

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i think GOING TO is a bit late :D

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Rammy, any chance you can run through the spec of your new machine and how much it cost in total? This thread's become so long, I've forgotten on which page it's all detailed. Cheers.

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The northbridge is running at 32? where you seeing that :confused: i cant see anything coming up in my ai booster software for the northbridge... only the cpu and case :confused:

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I just got my new pc anyone got any ideas how I check its processor temp and motherboard temp.

Does not seem to be in the bios setup thing when I press f10 to check it out.

I believe its a micro atx board ( asus socket 939 pci-e )

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everest :) http://www.lavalys.com/

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Have you got the asusprobe utility installed?
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HL2 for a hour ok? :)
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I'll have a look for you :)

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Is there anything you do not know, one greeny on way gonna give that site a looky.

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Thatll be the bugger :D will install that later :)

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Gareth, here are the details on my system.......asus A8V-E deluxe mobo £93.94 inc VAT
GeForce 6800Ultra 256MB PCI-E £327.98 inc VAT

2 gig of TWINX1024-3200XLPT XMS3200 2x512MB 2-2-2-5 £140.17 inc VAT x 2=£280. 34 inc vat

Athlon 64 4000+ Socket 939 £344.99 inc VAT

CoolerMaster Stacker STC-T01 - Silver Trim case. £105.40 Inc VAT

Enermax Noisetaker 600W £99.29 Inc VAT

I used my old audigy 2ZS soundcard, dabs are selling it for £63.39 inc VAT

Two Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache HDD's, £123.32 Inc VATx2= £246.64

I think thats the lot........and it comes to £1561.9 6
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Doh! :D

Hey KP, have you seen what Dabs are selling the 6800ultras for atm? :erm: :mad:

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I worked mine out the other day when I was comparing with a mate and it came to roughly £1900.

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I dont feel so bad about my score now, the total cost was less than £400 :D

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Not far off what i paid for mine:)

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Oh, shut up! :D