BenchZowner

And the question with Vantage is...waste Nitrogen or run the cascade ? Jeez, 25 mins bench

Yes you can use it for AquaMark 3 as well

Shouldn't change anything performance related, it's just some HW Detection routines update, plus a newer version of direcpll.dll [ one of the files that have to do with HW detecion ]

Various PSUs...top dogs being PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW SR, OCZ ProXStream 1000W, Zippy PSL-850. These are some of my benching setups units, for my gaming rigs I use the Corsair HX620W, a GameXStream 1010W, and some Antec TruePower Trio 650W [ planning to swap some with some nice PC Power & Cooling Silencer's ]

That's red, not blue

Yes, some boards will automatically set the to work at DDR2-800, others won't and you'll need to set them up manually. It's easy. And you don't have to worry at all.

It's not a fault of the memory, nor a problem. With some motherboards you have to manually set your RAM to run at their rated frequency.

It's the same like the "normal" Ballistix, just with some "flashy" LEDs...apart from that they're both the same, and using Micron D9GMH chips [ the best chips for DDR2 ] They'll do at least what the average D9GMH kit can do...more or less ? depends on your luck. You can pick a kit which will do DDR2-1150 with 5-5-5-15 timings, you can also pick a kit which will reach DDR2-1250 with 5-5-5-15 timings...it's all about luck as long as you pick up a kit with D9GMH/D9GKX chips

You don't need to buy the benchmark, you can publish projects with the "evaluation/free" version as well. There's just a limit on the max simultaneously published projects.

Sad, but true

Agreed, totally. LoD is a tweak, that is used to give us better scores by lowering the Image Quality ( in general ), it's a cheat if you think of it like "the developers used a +1 LoD for this test, etc" but competition-wise...oh well...there would be no competition in 3D Mark2001SE if LoD is considered illegal. It would come down to who has the best 'connections' in various manufacturers to get the very best cherrypicked CPU/RAM/VGAs. What could be done for the guys not liking LoD would be a filter to provide results and charts with and without LoD ( having a "LoD Used" or "Not" field @ the submit results form )

Hmm...there should be an old MMX 233 in my storage room. How 'bout a -196C MMX 233 OC ? [ oh wait, I need to make a new mounting for the tube ]

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs. Select nVIDIA Drivers, and click uninstall... However when changing motherboards its better ( and recommended ) to perform a clean windows installation.

Well, if it wasn't that obvious, I was kidding

no no no, go BenchZone!

3D Mark2001SE detects the 256MB XTs as 512MB Memory. And the 512MB XTs as 1024MB.

You should point ( link ) out the in-mind results when reporting such stuff m8. By the way, it's usually a user error [ unless he does that on purpose to get more points ]

Well, I just noticed that there's a user with 2 accounts, and posting the results on both accounts. Username 1: Quentin*OCM* ( Overclocking Masters ) Username 2: Quentin ( Overclocking Masters )

http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=547609

Another suspicious one [ 512MB card most likely ] http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=552084

Another one X1800XT 512MB as X1800XT 256MB http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=119726 http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=503185

George reported by accident ( I'm quite sure ) his X1800XT 512MB as X1800XT 256MB. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1871199 http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=559267

http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=558183 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=5061107 4305MHz Core 2 - X1800XT 256MB @ 720/765 = 22904 Marks @ 3Dm03 /// vs 3708MHz Core2 - X1800XT 256 ( ??? nope ) @ 620/747 = 23646 3dm 03

Another score of his X1800XT 512MB reported as X1800XT 256MB http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=550895

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9030684 http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=550894 check out the reported as suspicious scores a little bit better please.