while winter is blowing the chills onto everyone

the computer market is as hot as the past few months
things are looking good! :biggrin:

Newegg suddenly posted the Epox boards so I hurried and placed an order...

Couldn't get the AMD XP 3000 so I got the 2800 instead.
Epox EP-8RDA+ (sorry AI, just had to go with the best)
(2x) 256MB PC-3500C2 memory

9700pro will be here tomorrow and the rest in 2 days. :biggrin:

Gonna have some fun this weekend. :P

hehehe whatever ya think man :) Also would not matter if you bought the 2800 over the 3000 because the 2500,2800 and 3000 will all overclock to about the same point, I was gonna try to get to ya and let ya know also before ya ordered it looks like the 2800+ chips non barton are overclocking better and netting some better scores! I cannot wait to see your 3dmark man :) It's gonna be high! I am just trying to get into the 18,000 range right now... I scored this last night with my $95 chip

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5979854

Also all of this is on 100% air baby! I was able to tweak the system into running very fast ddr timings and also running at 204fsb stable right now. New heatsink and fan will be in tommorow and I should be able to break into the 18,000 mark just bairly. Also my oem sapphire card is still doing awsome, I am running stable now at 407 / 346 with no v mods on the card or artifacts! The new heatsink design is working awsome and I am keeping the core under 100F on the 9700 pro which is insane hehe. I used a temp probe to check the results! Not bad for about the cheapest 9700 going!

Gett'n awful close there AI. :P

I'll have my 9700pro tomorrow and the first thing I'm gonna do is throw it in this Intel system and see how she does. Maybe I'll hit 18K, maybe I wont. :P

Then, this weekend, I'll be throwing it in the NEW AMD system, maybe I'll hit 18K, maybe I wont. :P

Gentlemen, start your engines! It's racing time!!!

vvvvvvvrrroooommmmm

I think you will hit it no prob man :) I just did hehe

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5986123

god damn crazy!
:o :o :o

that is damn fast

i can never hit 16000 with my TI4200...

WooHoo!!!

Sweet man! :wavey:

D'oh!

For some reason, UPS changed the address on my package containing my 9700 pro. If it was delivered, there's gonna be one happy person out there besides me. :o

Oh man that sucks :( I just got my first ups shipment today, to bad it did not have your card hehehe I got a new mobile max hard drive bay for the one that I won off of twl stopped displaying the temp... I also got another 80mm fan grill in the skull and cross patern. Later today I am supposed to get a sk7 sink and a vantec tornado fan!