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This is mine, Dont play on my lappy so its good for me.
I redid my install, moving it from the slow WD 250 GB 8 MB Cache drive to my zippy Seagate 500 GB 32MB Cache drive.
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And I have the Video Cards SLI'd - but my gaming performance went down lol. This also includes all current drivers. I might try the W7 drivers from WU and see if performance increases, cause if it does, I might go back to them.
Last edited by johngalt; 10 Dec 2008 at 03:41. Reason: Added last comment
I noticed your gaming graphics score went down by .7, did you use a different driver?
Mine did the same thing went from 6.5 to 6.0 after changing back to 180.48 driver, but I did that because the Xtreme-G 180.84 Driver was causing issues with some games.
Last edited by johngalt; 10 Dec 2008 at 04:28. Reason: spell checked
Yes I did miss that sorry, I think the driver that it loads by default is the same one you get from WU and it gave me a better score as well and if you uninstall your current driver and do a restart it will load it back on again.
Hmmm - I suppose I need to remove SLI and then revert to the old drivers and then re-enable SLI....
Of course some of my other drivers may also be causing problems, then, as I installed the entire nForce set of drivers as well...
That's bizarre that my Q6600 o/c to 3.0GHz beats your i7 3.2GHz @ 3.2GHz by so much in the WEI score.
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Sure seems to be showing off that integrated memory controller though :) 7.9! Woot!
I'd like to think that my 7.2 CPU score is due to my l33t rig-building sk1llz but, alas, it's only a $190 retail Kentsfield with stock cooler in a low profile micro Media Center case. Me still wunts yer RAM n' GPU but mine will still transcode a DVD to H264 in under 20 min!
Performance RAM will damage your Nehalem- The Inquirer
have you checked here???
at this point you are not going to see a huge improvent in gaming
UneIT » Intel Core i7 940 in Real Test
i the future really you are...
Intel Core i7 "Nehalem" CPU Review - hardCOREware.net
and also dont believe into the hype that many core equal better performance
The many-core performance wall | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com