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As I said Nvidia is around the corner with the 9000 series witch will smoke ATIx2 again. I don't know if HWbot has that much influence on the Graphics card market. ATIx2 for the price is fantastic deal for the performance. Its about sales to them. They don't care about us unless they are not making a profit. This setup is in a new class all its own. By design,,,ATI,,for profit.. It is not in the same league or class of anything that has been standard. Single, Crossfire, or SLI,,,So judge it fairly on facts, and not by what people think it should be.

And soon Nvidia will intro the 9600GT which is the same level as a single HD3870.... Slots, not cores for videocards

It runs as a single and it can compete as a double. This is how ATI has made it to survive. You can't fairly judge it either way if you want to be fair. It does not compete with the nvidia 8800s at all in a single configuration, and will only beat it with a dual setup. Now it gets worse when competing against any 8800x2. Not even in the same league.

Its ironic how much fuss there is about this issue when even the Processors are all lumped together and no one has a problem with that....Quad and Dual cores.. Each in there own class. This one issue that falls in the middle grounds. Its not a single,,,Its not a double. Scores higher than a single...Doesn't score as high as a double. Looks like ATI through a wrench in HWbots engine and it can't adjust to handle it properly. So it asks us,,,. Things need to be broken down to more specif categories.

That is absolutely correct. And here we are in the first week of Feb. and no sign of a E8500 available anywere..

I sure would love to know how fast the E8400 can be pushed by a 680i chipset board? Some of you people a above 500x9. My EVGA 680 board will do 485x6 in its best day. I hate to think that its time to replace her..

I have read somewhere in another forum of this happening and no one could figure it out. I look forward to your data, and we will see if this is a problem

:mad:Intel's holding back on the E8000 series chips to deplete the inventories of the E6000s. So we can all blame Intel for the Price spike and the unavailability of the E8400 and E8500 processors. http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20080130PD224.html

Kick up all the board voltages to max. Set your clocks to 4-4-4-26. This will help. Run unlinked. Set ram to one half the FSB.