well yea.. the first intel chipset to support SLI was the x58 series.. which is why i said "unless you need SLI" ;)

Man, reggie just came out of nowhere and flew past me at the bot too.  I am such a slacker with these other benches. 

btw reggie, your monitor cable looks like a bad connection in your screen shots of your submission. 

Dont worry ill be down for a few days till my 5850 gets here my 280 went boom, not sure what happend must have pushed a little to hard Oh well next card will have a warranty.

unless I can rig a socket 775 watere block on my old 8500 then I might have some 03 runs to do

I am rigging up a 775 as we speak.  I brought my 790/Q6600 to work.  I brought my foam, so i am going to have some fun making foam inserts.  Then when I work up the nerve, I will hook up my chiller and have some fun with that.

Makeshift mounting of my 790/Q6600 combo.   Now someone tell me why I am doing this?  What do I plan to accomplish with this setup, over my i7? 



which ones should I go after with a 790.
3Dmark 2001
3Dmark 2003
3Dmark 2005
3Dmark 2006
3DMark Vantage - Performance
Aquamark
CPU-Z
MaxxMem
PCMark 2004
PCMark 2005
PCMark Vantage
PiFast
Reference Clock
SisoftSandra
SuperPi
SuperPi 32m
wPrime 1024m
wPrime 32m

oh heck, oh heck...

Im up to my NECK!



(name that tune you old folks)

try for any cpu based test most of them are looking for raw speed so if you think you cant get it faster than your i7 you might be using the wrong cpu. Try to score a e7xxx cpu those sell for pretty cheap I had a 7400 at 4.2 on air I cant imagine how I you could get it with that beautifull block. Even if you cant get it faster than an I7 you should be able to get quite a bit of points just for posting results in 2 catigories i7 and 6600.


Oh yea i meant im trying to rig a socket 775 block to a 8500 card if I get it running ill take pics

Go for 3dmark01, Nate.  Otherwise, your i7 should handle the other gpu tests better.  And of course get some cpu tests in with your Q6600 (wprime, superpi).  You probably have a good shot at some bigger points with the Q6600 cpu tests, as there's a lot of competition, therefore bigger point awards.

I am scared, cause that 790 is my backup computer.  I booger that one up, and I am silenced.  I have 2 videocards inbound this week i hope, this way I can try for some hardware records.  I think CPU tests are limited to strictly LN2 folk.  I have a good shot at any GPU records cause I get any GPU below freezing.