Crisis Causer:

Ah, 2.8GHz easily?  That's good to hear.  Before the contest ended I was thinking about how far I'd like to take the CPU, and 2.8 was the goal.  Heck, this new contest has the same CPU.  If I'm lucky...

i hope you are lucky enough! im sure i can get 3.0ghz easily too. 3.5 was my goal since its watercooler :-p

  Hey Ice if I should get so lucky to win Watch Out I gng to come gunning for you with the Stars and Stripes!!

Are you Scared yet? If your Scared say your Scared!!  LOL  Just messing with you. Enjoy you toy!

If I can just squeeze out 3.5 more gigs out of the K7/600       Not !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 Don't forget runner ups get a AMD proccesor.

Ice just checking with you man you got any current news on your video cards!

 well smooth creations handed me over to diamond, and mario asked me for my contact info. apart from that no new info :-(. dont know if i gotta ship it back, rma just the card, or what :-( 

Thats great! Hope it works out for you! When I grow up Im gngn to get me a Rig like yours!

 arent you older than me O_O. meh i just wish i could be updated or given a time frame or something im sitting here in suspense again. 

Yeah I probably am older than you. Thats just a term I use!  I think I might be the oldest here! 52 yrs. Im always joking about something! Just a 52 year old prankster!

well just an update, im *finally* getting my card back tommorow. (been a month and a week since i emailed tech support, and around an extra 4 days since i tried to fix it myself). cant wait to finally put my new monitor to good proper use!! i will post some benchies of bioshock, source, and of course 3dmark 06

Congrats dude I'm glad to hear that! I can't wait to see the benchies.

some... disapointing benchies. 150 fps in counter strike source test (the same as my 7950) and 12061 in 3dmark 06.

something doesnt quite add up. i did a clean install of xp... everything seems fine... any tips?

ice_73:

12061 in 3dmark 06

 

You're disappointed with that... it's a very good score.

The CS:S #'s seem a bit off though cuz my 3D score is only 10K+, but CS:S is 204 fps @ 1920 x 1080 maxed.

What rez u runnin?

 

recoveringknowitall:

ice_73:

12061 in 3dmark 06

 

You're disappointed with that... it's a very good score.

The CS:S #'s seem a bit off though cuz my 3D score is only 10K+, but CS:S is 204 fps @ 1920 x 1080 maxed.

What rez u runnin?

 

 

 Hi All

I agree with Recovering, that's a pretty good score.

Your score is pretty good too Recovering.

You were gone for a bit jtm... I don't have the same rig anymore.

I got frustrated for a minute and sold all the parts to buy a new HDTV. I now have another rig, but it's a bit less powerful than my previous.

Check it out in THIS thread!!!

recoveringknowitall:

ice_73:

12061 in 3dmark 06

 

You're disappointed with that... it's a very good score.

The CS:S #'s seem a bit off though cuz my 3D score is only 10K+, but CS:S is 204 fps @ 1920 x 1080 maxed.

What rez u runnin?

 

css 150 fps at 1680x1050

3dmarks 1280x1024

system specs

amd phenom quad core at 2.8ghz

radeon 3870x2 (crossfire on a card)

4gb ddr 900 ram



people have been getting 18,000+ with systems of similiar specs. hh's own review put the score at over 15k!

recoveringknowitall:

You were gone for a bit jtm... I don't have the same rig anymore.

I got frustrated for a minute and sold all the parts to buy a new HDTV. I now have another rig, but it's a bit less powerful than my previous.

Check it out in THIS thread!!!

 

 Hi All

That's an excellent build given the price to performance. Well done!

Yeah, I was doing stuff in preparation for my Marriage at that time so I really didn't have the time to spend here. What with our Honeymoon & all I'm just getting back into the swing of things. I didn't think it'd go down to well me taking my ThinkPad on our Honeymoon so it stayed home. Anyway things have settled down now & we've hit our stride, so I'll be back here more often now.

 

recoveringknowitall:

ice_73:

12061 in 3dmark 06

 

You're disappointed with that... it's a very good score.

The CS:S #'s seem a bit off though cuz my 3D score is only 10K+, but CS:S is 204 fps @ 1920 x 1080 maxed.

What rez u runnin?

 

also want to ask what system you running the benchies on? if its yout matx one, your using an 8800gts while im using a 3870x2 which is supposed to be alot faster.

You're gonna get a little lower score than what was on a fresh install.  My booklet thing said 13k 3Dmarks, but I got 12k after installing programs and such.  Oh well.  I haven't done a CS:S test yet, maybe I will.

One thing that irks me is Crossfire only helps in 3Dmark.  In Crysis it lowers the frames by a couple in the benchmarks, and in CoD 4 just from playing it doesn't seem to make any difference.  I'm wondering if that's a side effect of 16x/4x PCI-e's instead of 8x/8x.  I can kind of understand Crysis because I don't have a high resolution, but for CoD 4 I ran 1920x1080 2xAA/16xAF and it didn't make a difference b/w single card and x-fire.  Hmm.  Of course, I have to take off AA cause it kept crashing, bleh.

Crisis Causer:

You're gonna get a little lower score than what was on a fresh install.  My booklet thing said 13k 3Dmarks, but I got 12k after installing programs and such.  Oh well.  I haven't done a CS:S test yet, maybe I will.

One thing that irks me is Crossfire only helps in 3Dmark.  In Crysis it lowers the frames by a couple in the benchmarks, and in CoD 4 just from playing it doesn't seem to make any difference.  I'm wondering if that's a side effect of 16x/4x PCI-e's instead of 8x/8x.  I can kind of understand Crysis because I don't have a high resolution, but for CoD 4 I ran 1920x1080 2xAA/16xAF and it didn't make a difference b/w single card and x-fire.  Hmm.  Of course, I have to take off AA cause it kept crashing, bleh.

my booklet said id get a over 15,500, im getting 11034 thats a pretty big difference, especially when overclocked.

my sm 2.0 and 3.0 seem really low, only around 4,500 ea.

edit...  for some reason crossfire is disabled... (checked this via gpu-z) and it consistant with the scores im getting... so any idea how to enable it? since i got no option in ccc.


double edit- further solidifying my idea that the card is only detecting one gpu- ccc, system info all show 1 core, 512mb.

triple edit. reading this thread http://www.overclock.net/ati/314888-3870x2-only-one-core-working-4.html i have come to the really sad conclusion that most likely one core on my card isnt working. so im going to try to clean install vista, since clean installing xp doesnt work. hopefully this will be sorted out as i do not want to wait another month and a half for a replacment card.... (i have no idea why im so unlucky with graphics cards)

wish me luck.

 

ICE good to see you up and running have some fun now!