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Old 16-04-2005, 13:43   #436
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Re: Building my own PC

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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Old 16-04-2005, 13:53   #437
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Take a screenshot of the score window by pressing ALT + Prt Scr then post it here.
Where do I find the screenshot on my HD?
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Old 16-04-2005, 14:12   #438
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Take a screenshot of the score window by pressing ALT + Prt Scr then post it here.
Where do I find the screenshot on my HD?
Open Irfanview then do edit > paste.
Save as a jpg to your desktop then attach to your post.
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Old 16-04-2005, 14:36   #439
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Open Irfanview then do edit > paste.
Save as a jpg to your desktop then attach to your post.
Irfanview?
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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.
....and thats not o/c'd
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Figured it out.....learn something new every day ............Just have to find my photoshop CD and install that
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Old 16-04-2005, 18:32   #440
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Found my adobe elements CD......here's the screenshot
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Old 16-04-2005, 20:12   #441
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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
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Old 16-04-2005, 20:41   #442
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have you chucked doom3 or half life 2 at it yet?? Doom will be an experience
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Old 16-04-2005, 20:42   #443
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have you chucked doom3 or half life 2 at it yet?? Doom will be an experience
Tempted to re-play HL2.........
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Old 16-04-2005, 21:00   #444
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gotta be worth a go specially if you can transfer your saves and play the citadel again
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Old 20-04-2005, 00:01   #445
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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.
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Old 20-04-2005, 00:56   #446
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Re: Building my own PC

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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
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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Old 20-04-2005, 14:22   #447
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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.
Why, thank you Incog!
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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.
I'll give it a go........
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Hmmmmm............5690 and it doesn't run all the tests......any suggestions Bif? .............Are you perhaps running an ATI GPU (if that would make any difference)
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Old 20-04-2005, 15:43   #448
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Re: Building my own PC

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
........btw, should I get another 1gig of RAM? Would it make any difference?
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Old 20-04-2005, 16:04   #449
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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
........btw, should I get another 1gig of RAM? Would it make any difference?
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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Old 20-04-2005, 16:13   #450
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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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