pfarrell77
01-12-2008, 04:40 PM
Just wanted to let folks know what this beast can do. Q6700, 4GB, Raid 0 160GBx2 SATA 3.0, single 8800M.
In it's first run through 3dMark06 with stock free settings (1024x768) under Vista 64 bit, received over 10,000 with very few tweaks. Probably will get better under XP 32?
It's super fast in real world as well. Installed Vista for dual-boot in about 20 minutes. Driver CD worked like a champ. Took a while to find the WiFi drivers online (had to use ethernet), but all else went well. Cranked through all the updates for XP in about 15 minutes. It's awesome to watch all 4 cores cranking away.
Crysis ran smoothly for about 2 hrs with all settings on medium under Vista 64 DX10. Supreme Commander is awesome as one of the only games with Quad core support and it shows. The games definitely heat it up a decent amount, especially above the esc-F7 keys or so (that's where the 8800m is iirc. Not so much you can't keep your hand there, but enough that it's unquestionably hot, not just warm.
Finally, the only neg so far is that I can't find any program that can partition the HDDs in the "FakeRAID" these boards use other than Vista's built in program. That doesn't let me set up the partitions for Ubuntu so my Tri-boot ambitions with Linux are currently quashed. I've tried all the likely suspects, including GParted, and no luck - so if anyone with a 9260 or 9261 that has this working can help me out here, that'd be awesome. Otherwise I'm going to have to grab another 2.5" HDD and run Ubuntu off that in the 3rd HDD slot (I love this thing!). I'd rather not though as I don't need the storage right now (320 GB should be enough for a while!) and 500 GB drives have to be coming soon.
Anyway, thrilled with the purchase! Thanks Justin and Xotic!
In it's first run through 3dMark06 with stock free settings (1024x768) under Vista 64 bit, received over 10,000 with very few tweaks. Probably will get better under XP 32?
It's super fast in real world as well. Installed Vista for dual-boot in about 20 minutes. Driver CD worked like a champ. Took a while to find the WiFi drivers online (had to use ethernet), but all else went well. Cranked through all the updates for XP in about 15 minutes. It's awesome to watch all 4 cores cranking away.
Crysis ran smoothly for about 2 hrs with all settings on medium under Vista 64 DX10. Supreme Commander is awesome as one of the only games with Quad core support and it shows. The games definitely heat it up a decent amount, especially above the esc-F7 keys or so (that's where the 8800m is iirc. Not so much you can't keep your hand there, but enough that it's unquestionably hot, not just warm.
Finally, the only neg so far is that I can't find any program that can partition the HDDs in the "FakeRAID" these boards use other than Vista's built in program. That doesn't let me set up the partitions for Ubuntu so my Tri-boot ambitions with Linux are currently quashed. I've tried all the likely suspects, including GParted, and no luck - so if anyone with a 9260 or 9261 that has this working can help me out here, that'd be awesome. Otherwise I'm going to have to grab another 2.5" HDD and run Ubuntu off that in the 3rd HDD slot (I love this thing!). I'd rather not though as I don't need the storage right now (320 GB should be enough for a while!) and 500 GB drives have to be coming soon.
Anyway, thrilled with the purchase! Thanks Justin and Xotic!