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That's pretty cool. I have a 3500+, same RAM, same sound card, PowerColor X800XTPE, MSI K8N Neo 2 Plat MoBo.. and I got exactly the same '05 score of 6092. I don't have a link, just a screen shot of when I did it. I don't really care if anybody believes me or not about the score, I'm not a...

I have a BFG Ultra OC (425/1100) OC'd to 450/1175. Not sure what the Ultra Extreme clock is, but this is artifact-free at this speed, stock cooling.

Just think...someday something in life will happen that REALLY sucks, then you can look back at the week before school when you didn't get all your computer stuff at once and laugh because you thought THAT sucked. Perspective... ;)

One or the other was sharing the IRQ with my vid card, so I disabled it in BIOS. I couldn't really tell that it was hurting anything, but I don't like anything sharing the IRQ with my sound or vid card (or much of anything, if I can help it..maybe I'm just paranoid??)

It says Here that you need to have at least SP1 installed to get the USB 2.0 drivers to work. If nothing else, you can download the whole driver set if you can't locate your CD.

I have both, a BFG 6800U OC and a PowerColor X800XT PE. I ran the 6800 for a while and then put the X800 in (running it now). I can't tell a lot of difference except in benchmarks and HL2. I overclocked them both, the 6800 to 450/1175 and the X800 to 550/575 (I think, not sure what I settled on...

If you were asking me, yes...I read that X-X-X-10 was better on the Nforce 3 boards, so I tried that and got over 7K memory bandwidth (both readings) on SiSoft Sandra and am currently at 240X11 @ 1:1, I ran 245X11 for a while, but it wasn't super stable, 240X11 is.

That's nice to know that somebody else like these. My old rig was in an Enlight case, similar to this one. When I built this rig, I wanted something about the same as I had. It's not flashy and weighs a ton, but works for me. Now I have a sleeper, looks plain but goes pretty good!

BFG6800 Ultra (real Ultra) OC Stock was 425/1100 I run it at 450/1175 Not too radical, but it's not hot and I get artifacts at 1200

I just had the same trouble, trying to just play videos in WMV. Had to set the Hardware Acceleration slider to 50% instead of 100%, then the video played in the window. I couldn't figure out why I could see the skin, but no video..that's what did it for me. I like DualView better..get the video...

A few things that have worked for me (I'm new and just went thru the same things..) HT set to 4X RAM timing slacked off to 2.5-3-3-6 (EDIT: I have since read that X-X-X-10 is better on NForce3 Mobos, and I did get better bandwidth when I went to 2.5-3-3-10. I'm still a bit put off that I...

Yes, very helpful. I just went down the 2-2-2-5 road with OCZ PC3200 Plat rev 2 TCCD I thought my whole rig sucked, I couldn't get past about 215 at 1:1, even at 2.75V. Relaxed it back to 2.5-3-3-6 and it's really happy at 225 1:1 (225X11 for the CPU) at 2.65V and 1.488V on the chip. This...

OK, you guys got me heading back into the BIOS. Thanks both. It wasn't actually Fast Writes that was farkin me, but really close. In the hidden menu stuff, below Fast Writes, is sideband. I never use it, don't even know what it is.... just that it needs to be off, but I must have turned it on...

Thanks.. went from 2-2-2-5 to 2.5-3-3-6 and no change. And I don't know if I mentioned this, but I've successfully run all of these apps before. I never had a bit of trouble until I tried to run Doom 3. I never even had anything lock up until Doom 3 (this is a fairly new rig, less than a...

I've re-installed DX9 (I've re-installed it off the web, and during my XP repair install.), heat on GPU is 45~47C, CPU 45C

I don't think so, but ever since I installed it, I got troubles. First off, the 6800Ultra is supposed to run Doom 3 fine. Right off the bat I was getting really bad ripping (I guess, vsync seemed to make that better), but it would lock up right when the scientist was freaking out about the...

Well, I have all of the 1080p WMV HD clips on a separate HDD, And I can say right now, after just watching a few of them (The Living Sea is magnificent!) the ATI just does not have the beauty on the nVidia. And I'm not a shill for either, but it's a great enough difference to be readily...

Wow, I am THE KILLER of THREADS! Anyway, I just installed the x800xt pe. A few observations: The "Step Into Liquid" CPU usage rate of 85% max was with the Fast Writes disabled on the BFG 6800 Ultra OC. When I turned them back on, it went down to about 65% max. Now with the x800xt pe...

There is so much conflicting information about SATA drives, RAID, Windows XP, it'll drive ya crazy! I know! I have a 74GB Raptor, a K8N Neo 2 Platinum, Windows XP, etc. I have done a clean install of XP with a single SATA drive both with the SATA drivers (the ones on the floppy) and...

And I'm not stickin' up for NVidia when I said the WMV HD wasn't why I bought the card. I honestly had no idea such a thing even existed when I bought the card. But I do agree if they say my card can do something, then later I find out it can't do it (even if it doesn't apply to my orginal...

Well I DL'd the Step into Liquid 1080p just to see what the hubub was all about. Dayum! I've missed a lot in the last few years. That was awesome. Anyway, it drew about 85% peak CPU off a 3500+ with a BFG 6800 Ultra OC and whatever drivers were on the CD that came with it. Do I care? Not...

It'll work, I have a 6800 in mine. The big ol' BFG fan shroud overlaps the little MSI NB fan, but it doesn't touch.

Update.... I am highly agitated over this deal. I once again re-installed Windows, this time without any SATA or RAID or nothing..just let XP do it's thing. At every step, I confirmed that I could shut down and re-start without problems. I did a vey basic install, nothing that wasn't...

Yes, with the nforce3 chipset you are prompted to hit F6 to load the drivers from a floppy, but you can opt out or go ahead and load them. I've done one of each so far. And as far as performance goes, both seem to work. If I could just crack the problem of getting them either one to work after...

Yeah, it's crazy. About half the posts I read say you need the SATA drivers....XP doesn't have built in support for SATA drives. Then the other half say you don't need them. So I went the easy route first and just installed XP without the drivers on the floppy. And it worked great until I turned...

I fresh installed XP/SP2 on a 74GB WD SATA Raptor. I didn't do the RAID drivers on the floppy (MSI Neo 2 Platinum), everything worked fine. Got all the MoBo drivers, video, sound, DSL, all loaded and working. Everything seemed fine, had to re-boot several times during the install, no problems...

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