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Originally Posted by hammermd
 Prog...thanks for the update, can hardly wait until they've finished 'building' mine, or whatever 'pre-production' means...I suspect it means they haven't even thought about getting the parts in the same room, but...? Anyhow, can you quickly run that sucker on stock through 3DMark05? That's the bench I use most, since 06 is skewed toward high-end 'features' that give you points, whereas 05 is just game examples (i.e. you only have to run the GAMES tests to get a total score on 05). Whenever you get a minute, that would be great...should be between 12-14,000, I'm guessing. I also have no doubt that the drivers and some overclocking would have that sucker over the 8000 mark on 06, and over 14,000 on 3D05, which is not bad considering the 8700 sux nutz (Toshiba has one in their Walmart box, ffs...oh, the humanity!). I cannot believe that no other drivers work in SLI...that really blows. Hopefully the crazies at Laptopvideo2go will be able to hack in a fix for Dell and other new lappies with SLI cards. Actually, now that I think of it, what the hell do all the Alienware and Sager people use for drivers? There have been 7950 SLI rigs for awhile, now. I wonder if it has something to do specifically with the Directx-10 spec of the 8700?!? Anyhow, you might check with some of the dudes on those other forums, to see if they can run hacked nvidia drivers, or if they have to wait for their manufacturers to update as well. Congrats on the new lappie, it's good to hear you're satisfied. Here's hoping the 150 watt graphics upgrade is here before Christmas (or at least by Groundhog Day, ffs)! Edit: Sry...I also wanted to ask whether it was hard to format/install XP...some other bloke on these forums pointed out that you need the RAID driver on a floppy at the beginning of the XP install, so he had to 'slipstream' these onto the actual XP Disc (no floppy) before it would work...how did you do it? TIA>
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