HD2900XT 1GB with Thermalright HR-03 R600....

Opening results

pics to follow as well.....Idles at 35C

And ATI Control center clocked it to 890 / 1175 without it breaking 60C....more testing coming



-----Game testing to follow, and FUR rendering stuffs. I am waiting on my 92mm fan before I do anything big.



Rig in my sig, idles at 36C across the board

HD2900XT 1GB with HR03 R600 - Seated with Liquid Metal Pro

So far this thing frikkin rocks.

Will be testing Bioshock at max and testing heatout put.

EDIT: Some pics of it installed.

 

My jaw just hit the floor!!! Eager to see the upcoming benchmarks!

 

:evil:

 

I hate you now. Don't bother coming over either.

 

You will hate me even more when X38 intel based mobos drop this month, and another HD2900XT 1GB with HR03 gets plugged in

 

How the fuck do you get the cash to do it? Christ I'm scrimping and scraping to make a decent DX10 Rig and find out I'll probably have to wait til Jan of 08 to do it... I want to cry now. Damn debt.. If only someone gave me a couple of G's...

The money I did have I blew... Bah.

 

lol.... since June 2006... I have spent around 17grand with newegg... and another 3-4grand with 3rd party providers like sidewinder computers, NCIX, Tank Guys, Performance PC's, Frozen CPU, and Jabtech

Not sure, everytime I enter my credit card number, it seems to continue to approve it

 

So what is this x38 busniss? I've been looking and now see DVD Drives are now mostly SATA... Sure wasn't that way for me back in the day. I was confident to build a new machine myself.. Figured I'd save cash etc. But now I doubt I'll do it unless I have you or someone else actually pick out all the parts for me on newegg heh.

 

X38 is the new High Performance Enthusiast class Northbridge Chipset.

Its the successor to 975X, as the current P35 is the successor to the P965 chipsets.

Its going to be a beast with PCIE 2.0 and Dual PCIE 16x (full 16x link width)>>> If you want one of these, I would suggest waiting to mid september...

 

PCIE 2.0 eh? Well this stuff will probably be all old news come January.

 

Actually PCIE2 isnt even out

And Dual 16x PCIE is a first for intel chipsets.

 

I did a search seems 3.0 will be out in 2009. Yeah I've been looking at the Intel boards on newegg, only 1 on there that supports crossfire... And I will be staying with ATI, as I myself am an ATI fanboi.

 

Woa......that's awesome! I'm getting one as well. Where did you order yours? They don't have them at newegg yet. How is the clearance on the memory ICs? I have the 1Gb model as well.

 

Awww still no one to buy here in sweden. I cant wait for my HR-03/R600.. and then finally my system will be noisless again. Miss my dear X1800TOP ^_^

Anyways, glad youre enjoying it, and those temps look great. Glad its that cool even in passive mode, wich is how im going to run it

 

i was kinda curious all this time to be honest :hmm:
lol

 

That's the spirit!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

man, i sooo want to see ur credit score right now...... how can you just buy all this stuff pretty much impulsively?

if ur gonna do something like that, buy me something! i always wanted to hold a real Core 2 Duo in my hands.....even if i couldn't use one...

well seriously, i hope ur fun don't end and you keep beefing up that rig of yours... keep the fun going man!

can that 2900 compare to an 8800GTX yet? u sure OCed it alot....

 

No comparisons yet personally, but I will be posting new scores with X38 pretty soon and a different overclock with cat 8.0 whens its released , but I will be checking out Nvidias next offering R700 shouldnt be too far off now either...hopefully its not the R600 repeat on waiting.

 

*Drooooool*
I wonder if my fingers would melt if i prodded the Heatsink though?

 

Wow Chaos has groupies!