Forbidden Donut
Newcomer
Well, I finally got the last of my new hardware in yesterday ( http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7359 ), so I built my comp last night!
First of all, before I get to how blazingly fast this box is, I'd like to give a thumbs up to Intel Engineers and a thumbs down to Microsoft. Those of you who have installed one of Intel's new heatsinks know that the mounting design is, quite possibly, the most elegant mounting design seen on a heatsink (at least one I've encountered). Soooo cool! Unfortunately, I got screwed by both my own ignorance and MS. When setting up windows XP, I deleted my old 3 gig OS partition off of my 45 gig drive, and installed XP on a new 8 gig partition on my 120 gig drive. What I didn't know, was that Microsoft's partitioning tools actually view partitions in a slave/master way, such that if you delete the master partition, the other partitions are unavailable to you. So, I lost all of the data on my 45 gig drive. Not the end of the world, but certainly an annoyance.
Now, on to the system! I'm simply blown away by how blisteringly fast this system is! I downloaded both 3dmark programs for a quick little test. 3dmark03 came in around 5750 3dmarks with everything stock (Haven't gotten around to doing any vid card overclocking), but I couldn't get 3dmark01 to run. It said that I had the wrong version of DirectX installed. I have 9.0b, which was the latest release from the MS website. Any ideas?
Unfortunately, I couldn't stay up TOO late because I had to get to work in the morning, which is where I am now. I managed to run the Chimp demo, which was super cool, and I also ran the UT2k3 demo benchmark at 1280x960 4xAA 16xAF, and the botmatch bench came out above 60FPS
It was perty too!
So, I'd say that I couldn't be happier with the performance of my system. I am able to run my crucial pc3200 cas 3 memory at 2.5,6,3,2 timings, which is nice and aggressive for "slow" ram. Does anyone have any recommendations for an overclocking utility for my 9800pro?
First of all, before I get to how blazingly fast this box is, I'd like to give a thumbs up to Intel Engineers and a thumbs down to Microsoft. Those of you who have installed one of Intel's new heatsinks know that the mounting design is, quite possibly, the most elegant mounting design seen on a heatsink (at least one I've encountered). Soooo cool! Unfortunately, I got screwed by both my own ignorance and MS. When setting up windows XP, I deleted my old 3 gig OS partition off of my 45 gig drive, and installed XP on a new 8 gig partition on my 120 gig drive. What I didn't know, was that Microsoft's partitioning tools actually view partitions in a slave/master way, such that if you delete the master partition, the other partitions are unavailable to you. So, I lost all of the data on my 45 gig drive. Not the end of the world, but certainly an annoyance.
Now, on to the system! I'm simply blown away by how blisteringly fast this system is! I downloaded both 3dmark programs for a quick little test. 3dmark03 came in around 5750 3dmarks with everything stock (Haven't gotten around to doing any vid card overclocking), but I couldn't get 3dmark01 to run. It said that I had the wrong version of DirectX installed. I have 9.0b, which was the latest release from the MS website. Any ideas?
Unfortunately, I couldn't stay up TOO late because I had to get to work in the morning, which is where I am now. I managed to run the Chimp demo, which was super cool, and I also ran the UT2k3 demo benchmark at 1280x960 4xAA 16xAF, and the botmatch bench came out above 60FPS
It was perty too! So, I'd say that I couldn't be happier with the performance of my system. I am able to run my crucial pc3200 cas 3 memory at 2.5,6,3,2 timings, which is nice and aggressive for "slow" ram. Does anyone have any recommendations for an overclocking utility for my 9800pro?
