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Mr.Kakarot
08-25-2006, 08:23 PM
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/718/3d0336dc5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3094/3d0536oo8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4599/3d0636eb9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Well my 7950gx2 and 600w ocz power supply came today. So I just swapped them, and thought life would be good. Well after
some WHITE SMOKE and no power up... I thought I was TOAST. The screws, from the backing plate of my TT Big Typhoon, went through the electrical tape and shorted on the case. Why I don't know... how the gear survived, is beyond me. The standoffs in this case are far to short, and I cant make them any bigger or it wont fit to the I/O shield. Now I added some fiberglass tape and a thin piece of pcp board.

**phew.

The video card is all stock, with no tweaking yet.

3d 03 33,932
3d 05 15,637
3d 06 8747

I went with this card because I have a crossfire motherboard...and I didnt want to do crossfire. So this will do, until I want quad sli :)
Nistomax
08-25-2006, 08:32 PM
I just have to say that this is an amazing video card.
I dont benchmark after an awkward crash after running 3dmark06 and I wont overclock such a new card for a while.
Even at stock speeds the card delivers amazing gaming performance on both 19" and the little amount of time i got to try a 24" monitor. Better then a single 7900GTX, even though it is of similar size.
Nice benchmarks Mr. Kakarot! Crazy close call too, I would have pannicked if that happened to me. I hope you enjoy the card!
Celcius
08-26-2006, 07:59 AM
Congrats man, I guessing that's the Gigabyte card?
Did you replace the stock paste with AS5 or is that straight out of the box?

Nice scores!:toast: I can't wait 'till mine gets here.
Mr.Kakarot
08-26-2006, 08:08 AM
Straight out of the box... I am not sure how much I believe in replacing the paste... I did all that prep for my asus mobo... and it made no difference.

lol
Celcius
08-26-2006, 08:18 AM
Be sure to let me know how the overclocking goes:toast:
Mr.Kakarot
08-26-2006, 11:17 AM
Will do, busy weekend with baseball finals and sons birthday...

:toast: