FINALLY rebuilt my MM UFO Horizon - NOW WITH PICS!

[RX7boricua]

The only reason why I'm going with Ultras is because I was presented with the opportunity to upgrade for about 50 bucks US. I love seeing how high I can push my stuff, and I've made the top 10 in the XS Hardwarebot rankings for 3DMark06, but I'm "barely" there.

I was talking to one of my employees the other day, the one that recently gave me an E6600 and my MSI P35 Platinum for OCing his machine as well as those of his Kuwaiti friends. He told me that his Kuwaiti friends are always looking to upgrade, and he sells his machines to them without really losing any money. (PC hardware is insanely expensive out here.)

Anyway, the other day I hit 19K+ 3DMarks, and we started talking about how I was thinking about Vmodding my GTX's to push them higher. He asked me why don't I just replace the GTX's with a pair of Ultras. I explained that the added expense didn't justify the added performance. He proceeds to tell me that he's selling his current rig (which I OC'd for him), and that he'll give me his EVGA Ultra for my XFX GTX, even swap, as his friend doesn't care which 8800 it will have. This intrigued me, and I told him that I'd have to buy a second Ultra to replace the second GTX which I'd have to sell. He replied with, "I'll find you a buyer for that one." That night, he txts me and tells me that his other friend wants my second GTX, and will give me 150 Kuwaiti Dinar for it, or about $540 US.

Basically, I did the math, and decided to buy an EVGA Ultra from Tigerdirect for $650 shipped.

$650 - 3% Fatwallet discount $18 - Free Quake Wars: Enemy Territory $45 - $540 for my GTX = $47 out of my pocket.

And that's the long story of why I'm upgrading to dual 8800Ultras!

To answer your questions, yes I want to be able to overclock them higher than what I have now. I run dual monitors, but I run my left monitor with the dual 8800's in SLI, and my right monitor I run off an ATI Radeon X300. The right one is just for temp monitoring, etc. or for extra real estate while multitasking. It works great!