Finally broke 5000 on 3DMark06
I replaced my eVGA 7600GT with an eVGA 7900GT KO. I made sure that the particular one that I purchased had the "new" SKU. There were issues with the Overheating Sensor messing with the clock speeds and causing artifacts and locked underclocking. eVGA says that these new cards have been cured of this malady.... We'll see.
Replaced the stock HSF (the KO HS baseplate covers the RAM as well) with my Zalman VF700 and Zalman VRAM HS's (x8). Clocked the card to 535/1650 (effective). Allowed 100 hours of heat cycles for the Arctic Silver 5 to cure, and Voila!
SM2 = 2132
HDRSM3 = 2089
CPU = 1837
3DMark06 = 5188
My previous high was 3678.
HL2:E1 and F.E.A.R. - WOW!