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Daston
31-01-07, 15:56
Well just put this bad boy in my PC

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/godaston/DSC00007.jpg

Will be interesting to see what it benchmarks at
silvershark44
31-01-07, 15:58
Ahh an 8800 i see! What are you going to do with your old xfx 7800gt?
Matt H
31-01-07, 16:00
oohh geek-a-lishsous! - what is it?
JustGav
31-01-07, 16:01
Not wishing to state the obvious, but you shouldn't be touching the gold edge connectors, and especially not if you don't have an anti-static strap...

But it is a nice looking card..
Daston
31-01-07, 16:04
ah been doing that for years even dropped them down the stairs I sware PC parts are more solid than people belive (I do try not to touch the gold connectors tho)

Its an 8800 GTX, My 7900GT will be going to my bro so he can run SLI. Will try and get a few benchmarks in a bit.

Oh anyone know what the idle temp should be on a 8800? mine seems to be around 48c.
peter richards
31-01-07, 16:04
wheetabix i think :p
Daston
31-01-07, 16:07
haha I just noticed that, well I'm ill so thats ok
silvershark44
31-01-07, 16:07
ah been doing that for years even dropped them down the stairs I sware PC parts are more solid than people belive (I do try not to touch the gold connectors tho)

Its an 8800 GTX, My 7900GT will be going to my bro so he can run SLI. Will try and get a few benchmarks in a bit.

Oh anyone know what the idle temp should be on a 8800? mine seems to be around 48c.

48 sounds fine to me

Ah i wondered if it was a 7900gt as the fan surround looked a little different. I have a 7900gtx at the moment, but im still waiting for the right time to upgrade to a dx 10 card.

Thing is I could still sell my 7900 gtx for £200 if i was lucky. So an upgrade maybe worth it still.
Matt H
31-01-07, 16:26
Its an 8800 GTX,


I take it is a graphics card then? get your self a Wii mate!
Daston
31-01-07, 16:28
yeah it is, Already got a Wii hours of fun. Have you played Warrio??
Daston
31-01-07, 16:45
Just scored 8363 in 3Dmark06
geoffvalenti
31-01-07, 17:20
Just scored 8363 in 3Dmark06

What, on a Wii :D
JohnC
31-01-07, 17:24
Wheres the on button??
silvershark44
31-01-07, 18:09
Just scored 8363 in 3Dmark06

I think you could do much better than that. What processor are you running? Have you got global anti-analysation (spelling) enabled?
Daston
31-01-07, 18:13
Thats what I thought!

CPU is an AMD X2 4400 I normaly run this at 2.4ghz but it seems a bit unstable at the mo, my plan is to upgrad to AMD's Quad core when it comes out.
Rico2006
31-01-07, 18:55
Good card - installed mine about a month ago, along with a Dual Core Intel. Fast as fook. Got a quad core MOBO though. Wow gives frame rates of over 190FPS with everthing at full res.

Only problem is the Vista drivers are a little buggy at the moment.

9785 3D Marks (2006) under Vista
13127 3D under XP
Daston
31-01-07, 19:20
wow that is fast!

Going to get vista when DX10 becomes the norm runs Vangaurd sweet and very pleased with that as all the mags said that normal pc's wouldnt beable to have full settings for many years.
JustGav
31-01-07, 19:24
ah been doing that for years even dropped them down the stairs I sware PC parts are more solid than people belive (I do try not to touch the gold connectors tho)

To be fair, I don't follow strict anti-static either, and yes I've dropped a monitor or two down the stairs, and they still worked.. hell my monitor carried on working for another 7 years.
Alan999
31-01-07, 20:59
Beast of a card! Will be needing to update my pc at some point this year me thinks.
Daston
31-01-07, 21:18
Yeah its good it actualy makes you think "wow I can see where my money has gone" instead of "I paid £400 for this!!"
johnnyknox
31-01-07, 21:24
Its a chip that gives you an extra 25 bhp (from ebay ;) )

I have the 6800 GT...it's pretty good so that should rock
Pete
31-01-07, 22:13
Only one? :p
Daston
31-01-07, 22:37
lol well I am toying on another
CardiffSupra
31-01-07, 23:29
Very nice, Quick question lads for you lads. I have a AMD 2.2ghz, 1gig ram, 160gig hdd, 6600 500meg gfx Card. I was looking to upgrade my computer but one of the lads in PC world said if i just spend a few 100 quid on a top gfx card i wont need to upgrade anything else, It will run any game on highest detail. True or not?
Rico2006
31-01-07, 23:40
Download 3D Mark 2006 demo, run it, and see what your CPU' and GFX are packing. Spec looks ok, whack another Gig of mem in if you can, as bang for buck, mem will be the cheapest.
Daston
31-01-07, 23:48
Yeah mem would be the best bet. Also I wouldnt trust a PC world guy as far as I could throw him. What AMD cpu do you have is it dual core or 64bit etc??