Impressions

Well it took me all day, but I got it running the way I like it. It ran great out of the box, but I have to put all my stuff back on it. I haven't run any bench marks yet, but I've been gaming. The first game I played was UT2004 at 1600 x 1200 (application pref). I didn't see any jaggies. The graphics, frame rate, and gameplay were all top notch. I was moving my mouse left and right really fast and it was SMOOTH!! I think my rig was ment to play this game. Unfortunatly I was born to play the Battlefield games. I didn't even bother putting BF1942 in yet, cause I know this PC would eat it for lunch. The game I wanted to see was Battlefield Vietnam (plus the BF1942 and POE mods for it).
I moved every setting to high (except card set to application pref) at 1600 x 1200. At times it was just amazing, but artifacting and random crashed ruined it. The good news is when I moved it just one notch down from 1600 x 1200, it ran perfect! Looked and played amazing!
That's all the gaming for me tonight, but I'll get more out of it tomorrow.

I just ran 3DMark03 with my 6800 Ultra set to app pref. and got a score of: 12879! I think that's pretty good.

How do you take a screen shot of the desk top (assuming that's what you meant my SS). Here's some PICS I took. They're very blurry due do bad lighting.

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I just redid the 3DMark03 and got a score of 12872. I'll keep it on my desktop until I figure out how to take a screenshot of it. I think I heard the program FRAPS does it. I'll check it out and post it if that's the deal!

The shots I took of the inside were darker and worse off then the ones I posted. Sorry, but there's no way I'm unplugging everthing to do it again. Take my word that the inside is tidy and awesome! I tried that fraps, but it wouldn't take a screenshot no matter how many ways I tried. I found on the internet that hitting PrtScn and then pasting that into paintbrush worked, so thats what I did.


I have yet to install Norton Antivirus, cause I've had problems with antiviruses in the past. I also haven't checked videocard driver updated or installed SP2. You guys think I should?

I lost that paper work somewhere and it appears gone forever. There was something on the screen when I started it, but it disappeard and who knows where it is. I just installed Norton Antivirus and my 3DMark03 went to 12890 (with auto detect disabled). I'm to lazy to run it again with it on. I think I'll install SP2 and let you guys know what happens. It ran great on my last machine.

PS. I just installed SP2 and ran the 3DMark03 with my virus protection on and got a score of 12815. No better, but not much of a hit to the system. Wow this PC rocks!!

Yep are scores should be the same, cause we got pretty much the same exact systems. Playing any games?