on what 3dmark 2001 :rofl:

What OS is everyone running with Dual/Quad core chips? I run Vista Ultimate 64bit, just wanted to see what everyone else is running.

Were you using the Free trial version of 3Dmark? I wanted to try it out and see how my computer does but I didn't really look into what the differences were in the trial and the full pay version.

desktop is xp, laptop is vista 32. both are amd.

haha funny no using 3d mark 06 haven't payed for vantage yet
yeah the 18k was a bit off i've upgraded since that last run hehe just scored 21k though

http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

system spec:
Q6700@ 3904mhz (yes quad core but like I said not worth it)
3X HD3870'S
4GB DDR3 RAM

now, if i had just posed the question, like i did before, i would've probably gotten the same answers, so i took a different tact. it got me the result i wanted. no, i am not going to buy the quad-core system. it is, in fact, a jump-to-market and does not fully utilize the environment. i am not a hard-core anything, but i would like it to run hard-core games, since i have given up trying to satisfy my games desire with a set-top. i have no knowledge of what games are out there or what machine i need, but kicking things around a little bit and poking (tongue in cheek) fun at intel showed me what i needed to know. computer shopper, which is a fairly new source to me, and probably just an intel advertisement loosely structured as a how-to magazine, showed three different build-ups in their "how to build your own system" labeled june 2008. i take everything i read with a grain of salt, though, but i do see that some of you are running some cutting edge components, a few of which were listed in the buying lists for one or more of the machines they built up for the article. i am not ready to pull the trigger just yet, but when i do it will be with an AMD x2 chip and an SLI type mobo. i have a 250GB hard drive collecting dust, so that will get utilized, as will the DVD-ROM drive i have, just to get started with. i may spring for a light-scribe do-all DVD drive, since they are basically giving them away. things are coming together...

Sounds like you are on the right track,you say X2 do you mean the socket 939(chips that ruled before C2D and still rocks the am2 chips) or the am2 chips?

also if your going SLI and not going to use vista pick up 2 7950GX2 cards off ebay about 100 bucks a pop cheaper then quite a few newer cards but run all the newest games perfectly except the Direct X 10 games. If you want to play DX10 games you need vista and a 8xxx series card or later.

like this? why 2?
http://cgi.ebay.com/eVGA-GeForce-795...QQcmdZViewItem

i was thinking am2, but if the 939 chips still out-perform the am2s, then why would i go with the am2? silly wabbit...

and i plan to stay with xp pro, sp3.

except for the 7900 card, this system looks like what i want.

yeah thats what i am talking about
I recommend the 7950GX2's because those cards are basicaly 2 7900's in one card,the 7950 GX2 run 2 GPU's with 512 MB memory per GPU so if you get 2 of them in SLI then that is essentially 4 video cards ,and hella worth it if u can get them for under a 100 bucks a pop.
you ask why 2 well simply because you can hehe plus it will make things run alot better then 1 and I think you mentioned wanting to run sli up top some where

true. any last minute advice?

DDR3....haha i havent looked but i heard the prices went way down...what kind of mobo?