I chucked vista on my 8800 and it seems to work fine. Haven't had time to try any games yet though.

Still a complete debacle from nvidia though. 'Official' drivers but with a caveat of beta for 8800 cards. balls up and a half

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they didn't have that motherboard anymore but because prices on some of the other parts were lower than on their site, i'm now getting a better motherboard instead (for the same total price)

GIGABYTE 965P DS4 ATX 775 QUADCORE 1066 DDR2 GBLAN/1394





and i'll pick everything up today when i get back from college

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

i just ran 3D mark 06

total-------------------7189
SM2.0-----------------3237
HDR/SM3.0-----------2933
CPU-------------------2077

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

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Asus P5B - P965 - S775 Conroe --------------------------------------£80 Same price could get a gigabyte Nowt wrong with Asus
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM-----£63 Samsung Spintpoint ftw! /w#nky signed
Antec PSU Truepower 650Watt---------------------------------------£70 Enermax Liberty 620Watt great PSU ^ ^ STFU
NEC DVD DUAL LAYER 16X----------------------------------------------£23
OCZ DDR2 2Gb KIT pc6400/800Mhz Special OPS Ed. -------------£178 Corsair DDR2 PC6400 CL4 FTW! its basically the same stuff - memory is like LCD panels, all made by one company
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - 2,4Ghz 4Mb Conroe ---------------------£213 E6400 and OC it no point in OCing the 6400, OC the 6300 (same size cache ya see, just a diff multiplier)
XFX GEFORCE PCI-E 8800GTX 768MB DDR3 PCI-E ----------------£424 Obviously... nice pick. (I head the 8900 was coming out soon though? I got the 8800GTS anyways ^ ^;;)
Coolermaster Centurion 5 Black --------------------------------------£40 Nice case
Zalman CNPS9500 Copper Cooler------------------------------------£30 Superb fan, but it's EVIL!! Prepare for your hands to look like an emo's

next?

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if you had read the second page, you would have noticed that i did in fact get a gigabyte motherboard

GIGABYTE 965P DS4 ATX 775 QUADCORE 1066 DDR2 GBLAN/1394



why not get a 6600 and overclock it even more?
(won't be overclocking it yet though )





still half a year away or so and i need one now

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

as far as I can tell with the C2D chips they do this - make the same chip for all of them. That way, for the 6300 and 6400 they pick all the chips which have a bit of dud l2 memory, and make them 2mb cache chips, instead of 4 (like why sony only have 7SPEs, they have a redundent one).....and they are all clocked the same but with different multipliers, so the better quality they are, the higher they are clocked....

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“There are some people in this world who don’t love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that!”