Hardware pr0n...w00t!

[clocker]

What happened with the video card cooler?

I guess you don't want ot tell me the BIOS revison.

I am at work, so nothing has happened to the HS on the card.

I'd be happy to share my BIOS rev.# with you....assuming I knew what it was.

Which I don't.

I had planned on flashing it anyway...I understand there are few upgrades from the shipping BIOS, but I'm waiting to use the Windows based flash utility.
Tomorrow morning I hope to try.

[Snee]

I thought win-flash and the like=very, very bad?


Very nice setup btw.

We are most impressed.

[clocker]

I thought win-flash and the like=very, very bad?

I've never had a problem using it and it saves having to temporarily install a floppy drive.

Boy, I hope it's a nice machine.
I'm actually kinda excited to see how she works.

[Snee]

Cool, I'd try it if I dared, think I'll stick to using a bootdisc tho', seems the most secure way.



For what it's worth, I'm jealous already.

[Virtualbody1234]

There are only 2 BIOS revisions for that board: Click -->K8N Ultra 9 BIOS revisons

First release and 1 update.

The BIOS revison should show at bootup.

[ApacNTS]

post more pictures, it's just addicting to look at :p. definatly want to see the finished product *drools*

[peat moss]

post more pictures, it's just addicting to look at :p. definatly want to see the finished product *drools*

Ya I'm getting antsy to upgrade now too . I better get to mowing those neibours lawns !

[clocker]

Ya I'm getting antsy to upgrade now too . I better get to mowing those neibours lawns !

Lawns?
Plural?

Think big...ONE lawn for $1500.

Try to do a nice job.

[clocker]

YeHA!
Comcast seems to have um, upgraded my connection a wee bit.

Me likey.

I finally got the proper version of 64bit XP installed this morning.
And it comes right back off tomorrow.
Turns out the new nVidia 64 bit driver pack does not support the 6800 series cards.
I have no idea why, but that is just absurd.

So, in order to see what the card is really like I have to drop back into 32-bit world.

*sigh*

I did remove the Zalman sink before firing her up and the contact patch looked fine.
Heat doesn't seem excessive either, but I can't monitor it yet (no real driver pack/utility installed yet) so I'm using the "finger test".
Crude, but reassuring.

The Windows based BIOS flash utility won't install on XP64 either, so that must also wait.

So far, so good.
I'll install regular XP Pro tomorrow and then we can see what some of the benchmarks have to say.
Anything in particular you want to see?

[Snee]

can't you do a dual boot?

One 64 bit OS, and one 32 bit?