My C2D system is built

[Higach]

I got my parts today and its built (my sig) I will get pictures eventually and gonna overclock eventually when i get the zalman 9500...

So yeah im pretty stoked

 

[RalliArt882]

Hehe it's fun playing games now isn't it.

 

[Higach]

I ran a few tests, do these sound about right?

3DMark03 - 20,500 ish
3DMark06 - 5310

Does that sound about right for the build in my sig without any overclocking?

 

[CrazeD]

Yeah that's about right.

I'm going to be buying the same video card you have. How is it?

 

[jonny_uk]

Nice rig, well done.

CrazeD the vid card is great, i can run all my games at max settings, im currantly well into Battlefield 2142 which i have totally maxed out and i still get good FPS, plus the card is really quiet, i cant hear it over my case fans, top card i love it

 

[Adzh]

Nice one, mines been delayed, was due yesterday, probably won't expect it for a few days or possibly even monday :'(.

 

[darkop16]

Nice build Higach. If you decide to oc later, id love to see the results. Im trying to figure out what the best board i could get for a lan build.

 

[Higach]

yeah certainly will do.. I am going to save a little bit more money and get a zalman9500 and eventually try for 400x8 3.2ghz as my goal and see if it comes out stable, if I got that I dont really wanna push it farther

 

[darkop16]

3.2ghz is plenty fast. I had 3.6ghz which was insane. I don't see what those guys with x6800 at 4.2ghz do with that kinda power. I can't even get 60% load on my cpu @3.4ghz with all the multi-tasking i do and thats with one instance of F@H running in the background already taking up one of my cores (50% of the cpu).

Well i did get it to 100% load on supreme commander, but that was because i forgot to turn F@H off. I could have left it on though, because both programs were using separate cores. As soon as i turned off F@H, my other core went down to 0-5% (i also had azureus running too).

 

[Higach]

How exactly do I run prime95? I assume just use a torture test but which one do I use to test overclocks? And do i just use that and pcwizard to test temperatures to see if its stable?