Recent content by whalehead

3DMark05 - 5805, running one of the famous evga 6800LE/GT/Ultras of late 2004 with Thugrook's BIOS, OC'd via Rivatuner to 430/1200, using the 81.85 drivers. Interestingly, it was defaulted at 32MB AGP aperture, vsync on, fast write enabled and ran a 3DMark05 - 3900. Loaded the newest...

That is the most pathetic thing I've ever read. I'm sorry that you can't come to grips with losing, but if this is the lesson you take from this election, you are in for many more election night disappointments.

Mucho thanks to thugsrook and aonic - I flashed to the LE-GT 1.4 bios, used RivaTuner to OC to 400/1150, and it jumped from 10,100 (stock) to 12,024 in 3DMark03. Very simple procedure, even for a noob like me. Farcry is nice and smooth maxed out on all settings. Vid running at around 52C...

I just built a new system using a Chaintech vnf-250 and a Seagate 200G Barracuda SATA HD (hooked to SATA 0 port on mobo). I noticed during XP install it prompted to hit F6 to install other drivers for the HD if needed, but I just went ahead and partitioned the drive and installed with whatever...

Just to add to the pile of feedback, I just finished a new build using one of these cards from Newegg. Rivatuner reports 16 pipes, 6 vertex shaders, 324 MHz core, 1097 MHz mem. 3D Mark 03 score 10197 using the 61.77 drivers. I'm sure someone noticed this before, but the LE stickers on the box...

First computer was a TRS-80, IIRC it had a Z-80 or 8086 CPU, and a built-in 360k floppy. Smokin FPS on Pong! :):D