Check these Specs for me Please.

[Justsomebloke]

Meh !!!!
Sorted me Update prob & my emails & all that crap & have now ran out of things to mess with
No point me installing games until I get the connector I need for tuther card, No point me benching either, BAhhhhhh I WANNA PLAYYYYYYY

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Justsomebloke

Meh !!!!
Sorted me Update prob & my emails & all that crap & have now ran out of things to mess with
No point me installing games until I get the connector I need for tuther card, No point me benching either, BAhhhhhh I WANNA PLAYYYYYYY

Hehe, I always get like that on a new build - especially a new gaming rig

I would bench it with just the one card first while you're waiting for the adapter and then bench again with crossfire to see what sort of gain you get.

[Justsomebloke]

Went to bed at gone 4am & was Wide awake again at 8.30am
Did my chores & then went off on a search for the connector I needed. Of course Nobody local stocked one so it meant a trip over to Eclipse Computers in Coventry. I borrowed me mates Satnav for that one as Cov is Indian territory for me. (Indian territory as in Wild West uncharted wilderness Not a Racial slur on our Asian Friends )
Connector cost me under 3 quid & I must say that Eclipse was Well worth the visit, Comprehensive display & stock list & there prices are fair as well
Back home I've slung the other card it hooked the bridges up & then connected them, Fired the Beast up (I know I know it's a common name but to me it is nowt but a Beast ) The CCC picked the change up & auto guided me through about 3 clicks to enable giving me the Wondeful message back of You are now in Crossfire
Benchmark time now but the download of 06 is taking kin Ages
Time to relax now & gather myself & enjoy my hard work, I cannot believe I got some money together for an upgrade & even more than that cannot believe how much my money has got me.
S'pose I should wait for the Benchys but the only forseeable problem now would be my PSU holding my clocking back. I'm hoping it will be fine but at the very least I am hoping that I can run my chip clock & 2 cards at default for now until I scrape enough up for a beefier PSU.



On a side note times like these really piss me off when I think about work/a job.
I couldn't think of a better person to employ to get a job done than myself as I am about as single minded as you can get when I have my teeth in a task. I'd make my Boss a Fortune given the chance (Insert raised eyes smiley here)

[Justsomebloke]

First Benchy with 3D 06 is 9415
That is with my chip @ a Gentle 2.6ghz & the 2 cards @ Default
That is an Increase of 5300 for 200 quid


Tweaks & Clocking will easily take me over the wanted 10k.

[LeperousDust]

So you've more than doubled your score and youre pretty much bang on the "average" system too, can't have done much better for £200 i guess Well done

[Justsomebloke]

Well I have to say You guys were right, It is a fair amount of trouble running a Quad core & Crossfire set up. I've been buried for over a week in my system just trying to get to a happy level of understanding. From day one I had it up & running & playing games & benching perfectly but **** have I had a battle to get to grips with the Overall system/Bios/settings.
Today I can comfortably say that I now know my system & am at a happy level of control. It hasn't helped that Intel is all new to me & the different terminology has completly screwed my head up. Tbqfh it's like learning a new language for things you already know & can read, deffo a WTF situation.
Coming out the other end though I can say that the learning curve I've been on has been Massive & very saticfying
My Mobo Pawns big style & now I have my head around it the Bios & features are Sublime. God knows where my ceiling is but when I reach it I can still look forward to the upgrade path I have without having to swap out my Mobo.
I got a AC64 from OcUk delivered yesterday which has dropped my temps untold, I'm now running a mild clock at 10c lower than default speeds with the default cooler, Which was a noisey **** btw.
Once I max out my clocks I'll use EIST to drop my clocks whilst @ desktop using the inbuilt power saving features on the mobo. In tests it drops it down to 1.6ghz & pops it back up to your clock as soon as an app starts. Obviously I won't know how reliable it is until it's been tested for a week or so but I'll give it a go as it drops Volts, Fan speeds as well as my clocks so a nice quiet system that is easy on my leccy meter would by nice if it works Faultlessly.

In use my system is just Uber Fast, I've ran BF2 then dropped to desktop & browsed & done my email & every time I click on something it still comes up faster than my last system even though I have BF2 or FSX on in the back ground Obviously the Quad cores coming into there own in that situation as Nothing slows it down no matter how many apps I stack.
I think for 200 quid I did Blinding & am as happy as a pig in **** even with all the issues i've had to overcome.

Forgot to say that 1 of my mem sticks was borked kicking up errors all over the place. The seller dropped a spare 2gig to my door for me to test/use till I got my RMA back, How ***** cool is this seller +

Anyway that's about it, I'm Loving my new system & what I've learnt recently has taken me further down the road to Geeksville

[semi-pro waster]

Good stuff, sounds like an absolute bargain now and very decent of the seller as well, if it is the guy I'm thinking of he's always seemed pretty sound anyway.