I received my AW yesterday! Only 101 days after I ordered it. 
Here are the benchmarks from AW:
Test with SiSoft Sandra
CPU Benchmark
Dhrystone ALU: 10559 MIPS
Whetstone FPU: 2978 MFLOPS
CPU Multi-Media Benchmark
Integer: 0 it/s
Floating-Point: 0 it/s
Drivers Benchmark
HD 1 - Buffered Read: 85 MB/s
HD 1 - Avg. Access Time: 8 ms
Memory Benchmark
Int ALU/RAM Bandwidth: 0 MB/s
Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth: 0 MB/s
3DMark 2003
Game Tests
3DMark Score: 12,134.00 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury: 304.71 FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon: 91.03 FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair: 72.13 FPS
GT4 - Mother Nature: 91.29 FPS
CPU Tests
CPU Score: 1,006.00 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1: 112.82 FPS
CPU Test 2: 17.75 FPS
Feature Tests
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing): 2,793.54 millions Texels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing): 6,609.94 millions Texels/s
Vertex Shader: 36.41 FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0: 145.18 FPS
Ragtroll: 52.26 FPS
Sound Tests
No sounds: 78.87 FPS
24 sounds: 69.34 FPS
60 sounds: -1.00 FPS
Initial Impressions:
It's big. 22x22x9 approximately.
As a first-time AW owner I felt stupid trying to figure out how to open the secret access doors. I finally figured out right where to push to make the magic click happen (and I didn't break it).
It is louder than I expected. There's a big fan in back (120mm). One small one in the side panel, one on the CPU and there's some blue light in the front by the alien eye grills. I'm not sure which part is the alienice I paid extra for.
Setup was easy, the packaging was orderly and well put-together.
I loaded Dooom 3 and Battlefield Vietnam yesterday afternoon. It handles them both with ease. Very impressive performance for someone who has been struggling with a PIII 700 for a couple years too long.
My overall, initial impression is very positive.
Here are the benchmarks from AW:
Test with SiSoft Sandra
CPU Benchmark
Dhrystone ALU: 10559 MIPS
Whetstone FPU: 2978 MFLOPS
CPU Multi-Media Benchmark
Integer: 0 it/s
Floating-Point: 0 it/s
Drivers Benchmark
HD 1 - Buffered Read: 85 MB/s
HD 1 - Avg. Access Time: 8 ms
Memory Benchmark
Int ALU/RAM Bandwidth: 0 MB/s
Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth: 0 MB/s
3DMark 2003
Game Tests
3DMark Score: 12,134.00 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury: 304.71 FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon: 91.03 FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair: 72.13 FPS
GT4 - Mother Nature: 91.29 FPS
CPU Tests
CPU Score: 1,006.00 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1: 112.82 FPS
CPU Test 2: 17.75 FPS
Feature Tests
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing): 2,793.54 millions Texels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing): 6,609.94 millions Texels/s
Vertex Shader: 36.41 FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0: 145.18 FPS
Ragtroll: 52.26 FPS
Sound Tests
No sounds: 78.87 FPS
24 sounds: 69.34 FPS
60 sounds: -1.00 FPS
Initial Impressions:
It's big. 22x22x9 approximately.
As a first-time AW owner I felt stupid trying to figure out how to open the secret access doors. I finally figured out right where to push to make the magic click happen (and I didn't break it).
It is louder than I expected. There's a big fan in back (120mm). One small one in the side panel, one on the CPU and there's some blue light in the front by the alien eye grills. I'm not sure which part is the alienice I paid extra for.
Setup was easy, the packaging was orderly and well put-together.
I loaded Dooom 3 and Battlefield Vietnam yesterday afternoon. It handles them both with ease. Very impressive performance for someone who has been struggling with a PIII 700 for a couple years too long.
My overall, initial impression is very positive.
