Well, I received my parts and attempted to put my new computer together. My 3dmark scores are not as high as I would have expected, so I'm thinking something is wrong. And I have some questions to boot.
Intel Quad Core, eVGA 680i motherboard, Zalman 9700 LED cooler, Antec P180 case, 4 sticks Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5 2GB Kit DDR2-1066 XMS2-8500, eVGA 8800 GTX.
Well, the Zalman backplate installed without crushing/hitting any caps/resistors which is a good thing. Question though: Which way should the fan be pointing inside the case? Towards the slots, towards the case fan, away from the case fan, etc?
3dmark posted 11,554 as a score and seemed to recognize only 2GB+ of memory (2800 MB) - the BIOS, etc. recogizes the full 4 GB. According to 3dmark's comparison feature, I should be getting 14,300 as a score (that's what identical proc/video combinations are scoring.
CPU temps after windows XP install and running 3dmark etc was 101F - don't know where this number should be.
So, any thoughts or suggestions?
When I installed me software, I did the following:
F6 to add the two drivers on the eVGA floppy
Standard XP install onto my SATA drive
newest versions of nVidia 680i motherboard drivers
newest revision of 8800 video drivers
NIS 2007
all Windows patches.
Intel Quad Core, eVGA 680i motherboard, Zalman 9700 LED cooler, Antec P180 case, 4 sticks Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5 2GB Kit DDR2-1066 XMS2-8500, eVGA 8800 GTX.
Well, the Zalman backplate installed without crushing/hitting any caps/resistors which is a good thing. Question though: Which way should the fan be pointing inside the case? Towards the slots, towards the case fan, away from the case fan, etc?
3dmark posted 11,554 as a score and seemed to recognize only 2GB+ of memory (2800 MB) - the BIOS, etc. recogizes the full 4 GB. According to 3dmark's comparison feature, I should be getting 14,300 as a score (that's what identical proc/video combinations are scoring.
CPU temps after windows XP install and running 3dmark etc was 101F - don't know where this number should be.
So, any thoughts or suggestions?
When I installed me software, I did the following:
F6 to add the two drivers on the eVGA floppy
Standard XP install onto my SATA drive
newest versions of nVidia 680i motherboard drivers
newest revision of 8800 video drivers
NIS 2007
all Windows patches.
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