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Looks like 12634 is the 3dMark 2005 score to beat. Damn that's high!!
All of the top scores are with VERY overclocked A64 processors and dual (SLI) 6800 ultras. Also appears a promethia or better is needed for cooling of the proc, and a good watercooler on the video card.
Someone from this forum has been nice enough to give my friend an original promethia and he has existing watercooling for the video card. Now we need funds and the correct components.
Well, let's say we have the funding (which we do). We're looking at which motherboards right now? Only a handful have SLI... Then securing an A64 at a reasonable price will be the next hurdle. While expensive, dual 6800 ultras shouldn't be hard to find. Mail order prices of course.
The idea is to mod the gear (for use with the promethia and H2O cooling), do the suicide run, then test the components at stock before reselling them. This way we wet our whistle but only eat maybe a few hundred. If it all blew up in our faces it's not too big a deal. Losing any amount of money sux, but it's found money anyway...
I'm guessing everything needed (proc, mb, dual 6800 vid cards, ram) should cost less than $2,000. Could shave some of the initial cost if we find some of this used. We would obviously be documenting the experiment.
Looks like 12634 is the 3dMark 2005 score to beat. Damn that's high!!
All of the top scores are with VERY overclocked A64 processors and dual (SLI) 6800 ultras. Also appears a promethia or better is needed for cooling of the proc, and a good watercooler on the video card.
Someone from this forum has been nice enough to give my friend an original promethia and he has existing watercooling for the video card. Now we need funds and the correct components.
Well, let's say we have the funding (which we do). We're looking at which motherboards right now? Only a handful have SLI... Then securing an A64 at a reasonable price will be the next hurdle. While expensive, dual 6800 ultras shouldn't be hard to find. Mail order prices of course.
The idea is to mod the gear (for use with the promethia and H2O cooling), do the suicide run, then test the components at stock before reselling them. This way we wet our whistle but only eat maybe a few hundred. If it all blew up in our faces it's not too big a deal. Losing any amount of money sux, but it's found money anyway...
I'm guessing everything needed (proc, mb, dual 6800 vid cards, ram) should cost less than $2,000. Could shave some of the initial cost if we find some of this used. We would obviously be documenting the experiment.
