Well, it's finally finished. Unfortunately, the Acronis image I reinstalled after the graphics testing wasn't quite up to snuff. It altered the boot record and caused Vista 64 to go kaboom looking for the previous user profile. That's a new one on me. I finally just gave up and reinstalled the OS with the latest drivers, but no apps. Dual-boot is gone. I figure the winner will have their own tastes in software and they can register the programs as well when they install them.
Here are a couple of amateur pics I shot with the cover on and the lighted fans, etc. The blue light motif (which is washed out by my flash) was pretty much part of the case and it overwhelmed the UV with only two reactive cables on board so I ditched the UV. It's in the box so the winner can have at it as they see fit or use it in another system. I think it looks nice as is. In-house photo maven Robert Cardin will be doing an official photo on Monday that I'll post.
The gaming scores were quite nice. 187fps for Doom 3 anti-aliased at 1280*1024 and 258fps for Far Cry with the same settings. If you get fragged with this system, it's your own fault.
I'll be back with one more post to thank everyone involved.
Cheers, Jon
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Apr 21, 2008 9:24 AM
jonljacobi
in response to: nethrose
jonljacobi
in response to: nethrose
I'd be interested in more higher-res stuff myself, but PC World does what PC World does. I've messed around with the included games and flight sim at higher resolutions and it'll do the job even without overclocking, and the 9800 GX2 is very overclockable.. I'm assuming the winner wants the machine ASAP so I'm not going to do any further testing. I wish I could. Next time we'll start the build sooner, or hopefully not be in the middle of such a wave of new products so less of my time is wasted troubleshooting and we can really go to town with the testing.
Blame the flu as well. That killed a week of my time.
Cheers, Jon
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No offense, but those are some weak gaming benchmark scores. I'd be really interested in seeing the HL2:Ep1/Lost Coast bench's along with 3dmark. I would imagine much higher resolutions with maxed settings on every game with the exception of Crysis being blown to bits (I still think Crysis is too much at fully maxed out settings for this). Just curious if there will be a sort of "wrap up" performance blog or headline on the site. It's gotta be a good feeling to get it finished and out the door!