Yeah, that's what I'm thinking... Thanks.Why bother Viper? The only point in doing it now would be to get more 3DMarks, and if you're already getting good FPS on the games you play, then who really cares about more 3DMarks? Wait until you actually need to for better performance when higher quality games come out.
10,000 isn't bad for a last year's PC, but I'm pretty sure Shawn just built a new one with a 9800GTX, etc.
BTW, madcow, what is your score for the PC in your sig?
Got around 10000 pts when I still had Vista 32 + 2gb ram.
Havn't tried running 3Dmark2006 again after the ram upgrade, but I suspect that the score might be a tad lower.... seeing as I dropped the ram from CL4 to auto config with the new Corsair ram.
OCZ 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1v FTW. Pity the Corsair can never pull that kind of timing, gotta pay the price for being greedy (6gb of ram).
Well... I'm gonna format my pc sometime within this week, I will post up the new 3dmark06 test result when I install a fresh copy of OS.
OC'ed my video card up to 675/950 and that gave me an extra 200 points (11300 now): http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6929063
You obviously did a weak/mild OC. Those 8800GT can be quite something when you turn up the voltage and just crank it to max ram/core speed.
I know for a fact that when I run my HD3850 under full OC mode, I can get close to 11500 pts. And that's approaching 3870OC/8800GT(stock) territory.
I just did a simple OC via the drivers. I don't wanna mess with the voltage or go into unstable territory.