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Jason425
10-16-2004, 03:21 PM
Well it was a rocky road.. but i'm here now.

The first thing I did was take off the heatsink and get the silicon thermal crap off there and put some geil stuff on. Since the card is so long and with the power connector being placed near the corner made it almost run right into my hard drive.. it's a very close fit...

I fired it up and XP wanted me to REACTIVATE... BUT, It wouldn't let me connect.. and I wasn't going to call ms.. they harrass you every time..

So I try to reinstall, but my raid drivers were gone.. so I had to go make a floppy of raid drivers on another comp and then reinstalled... but somehow everything was buggy and screwed up and the power management was screwy (power button made it turn off without shutdown and regular shutdown gave "it's safe to power off" message...) So I reinstalled again, installed 66.81 drivers, did some OC'ing (400/1.09 from 370/1.00) and ran some benchies...
the drivers were "futuremark approved" for 01 but not 03 or 05.. gg they don't approve anything...

With my cpu fan on low/medium the video card is now the loudest part of my system. I have a feeling however that the overclock i'm running right now isn't completely stable because there was some corruption in 05....



Benchmarks:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=177917
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=3253011
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8186515
Jason425
10-16-2004, 03:22 PM
more pics
Jason425
10-16-2004, 03:23 PM
last pics
StinkyMojo
10-16-2004, 04:08 PM
:rocker:
eviltechie
10-17-2004, 04:29 AM
nice card, house, blue lights

but how come none of the pics are focused?
Jason425
10-17-2004, 11:29 AM
because my camera sucks at auto focusing... :(
eviltechie
10-17-2004, 03:21 PM
i wouldnt blame the camera when others with the same have taken good pics

maybe your finger is blocking the range finding assistant light
and maybe you were too close to the object without using macro mode
Jason425
10-17-2004, 03:47 PM
doubt it.. and what is macro mode?
gnogtr
10-18-2004, 12:24 AM
I can't believe you fell to Nvidia. You cheater.
Jason425
10-18-2004, 12:33 AM
It's MSI's fault.. it wouldn't OC to XT speeds.. and then it's outpost's fault for pulling a newegg and jacking up the price of the x800pro at the last minute.. and then it's some guy on hardforum's fault for posting a 10% off coupon for bestbuy... oh well... at least there's some good left in me.. (intel) :D
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 01:01 PM
:lol:

1 down 1 to go

*looks at gnogtr*
Jason425
10-18-2004, 01:38 PM
yea right you don't get credit for me spending $400 on a blue piece of silicon... I already gave gredit for it.. mr. low end.. :firedevil:
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 01:50 PM
I wish I can give "gredit" too... and I RMA'd my card.. :evilking:
Jason425
10-18-2004, 02:27 PM
so I was 1 for 2... that's good in baseball... get over it.. gg you rma'd a working card.. hope they ship it right back to you.. :P
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 03:40 PM
RMA refund.. not exchange. lol... here it goes again.. the 6800 128mb shall now be in the archive of cards Mojo once had in his comp :lol:
Jason425
10-18-2004, 04:13 PM
you have to pay for the refund right?
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 04:30 PM
no... i talked with them on the phone. If i would have done it online it would have been 15% restocking fee. ;)
Jason425
10-18-2004, 04:30 PM
wtf... how did you justify doing it free?
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 04:37 PM
I used my negotiating skillz.. lol i dont know i made up some lame excuse about my psu not being able to run it properly and they didnt include the fee :lol:
Jason425
10-18-2004, 04:43 PM
aka your lying skills..

the only time i've done that is with broken stuff.............. that I broke...... a little different... (aka flashed bios and I said it just plain didn't work)
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 04:48 PM
hey.. you're done worse than me.. lets not start talking about lying skills *cough* pbnation *cough* :P
Jason425
10-18-2004, 05:38 PM
I didn't lie once to him... It was a masterpiece that fell onto itself...


Anyway, nice avatar after a slew of bad ones...
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 05:43 PM
same for you..
this is your best
.
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the worst was between the stick figure playing tennis and the ugly woman juggling =p
Jason425
10-18-2004, 05:58 PM
pffft.... those and the new one are my only 3 that i've used in like the last 2 years!


don't judge ugliness ms. cinnamon roll leia :P
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 06:06 PM
at least was hot ;)

*key word.. WAS
Jason425
10-18-2004, 06:16 PM
so was ms juggling lady..
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 06:19 PM
so was ms juggling lady..

hot? no.
somewhat hot? mmm nope.
ugly? not that bad on the scale.. but pretty low..
Jason425
10-18-2004, 06:22 PM
^^^^^^^ = opinion..


http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1026756518#post1026756518 = you aren't returning to newegg like you said
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 06:28 PM
i know.. i am holding it for now becuase of 2 potential buyers I am trying to make it 3 here..
gnogtr
10-18-2004, 06:34 PM
Well, well, well, I don't believe you're converting me stinky, I'm skipping this generation. I'll have my 9800 Pro for at least another year. I can't justify spending $500 on a X800 XT when I'm happy with my framerates right now. I still score almost as much as you do on 3dmark2k5 with a last generattion card. So, it doesn't look like you're turning me any time soon ;) .
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 06:36 PM
Well, well, well, I don't believe you're converting me stinky, I'm skipping this generation. I'll have my 9800 Pro for at least another year. I can't justify spending $500 on a X800 XT when I'm happy with my framerates right now. I still score almost as much as you do on 3dmark2k5 with a last generattion card. So, it doesn't look like you're turning me any time soon ;) .

thats what jason said once.. :nod:
Jason425
10-18-2004, 06:42 PM
gnogtr, the last bastion of power for ATI in TWL
StinkyMojo
10-18-2004, 06:47 PM
peer pressure will take its toll ;)
Jason425
10-18-2004, 07:12 PM
again, stinky had no role in my change in hardware.. this doesn't make me a fanboy either...
gnogtr
10-18-2004, 11:57 PM
I dunno, it's pushing you to fanboy status, you're cheating on ATI...
StinkyMojo
10-19-2004, 12:27 AM
basically..
Jason425
10-19-2004, 02:07 AM
k 1) stinky that's like the 5th post IN THIS THREAD with "basically..." or another one word junk..


2) gnogtr.. I didn't cheat on ati.. I sold them all away gracefully.. they're not in some drawer sitting there jealous...

I may be an Intel fanboy.. but i'm certainly not an ATI or nvidia fanboy.. besides, ruby pwns the butterfly...
gnogtr
10-19-2004, 09:04 AM
I see, you're trying to make me feel better...
StinkyMojo
10-19-2004, 11:33 AM
k 1) stinky that's like the 5th post IN THIS THREAD with "basically..." or another one word junk..


2) gnogtr.. I didn't cheat on ati.. I sold them all away gracefully.. they're not in some drawer sitting there jealous...

I may be an Intel fanboy.. but i'm certainly not an ATI or nvidia fanboy.. besides, ruby pwns the butterfly...

1) i used basically twice so dotn do the usual of making s*it up.

2) ruby cant catch up with Dawn (the name isnt butterfly) cause she can just fly away.. and call in reinforcements ;)