Madness! The grand prize, a Ti500
 

Well, jmke asked me to put a nice photo of the grand prize up, and here it is!



I thank jmke and and the Madshrimps for a great contest, it was lotsa fun :ws:

Hace fun with it! Did we mention you have to ship it back if you don't manage to break macci's score within a week? :D j/k

Nice teddy by the way. :gay:

hey where's the face? ;)
great pic :D

Can't you tell? thats ME holding it ;D

congrats dude.

enjoy the card. don't break it (too fast)

congrats with the win dude

congratz, have fun with it!

btw: what did you do with the broken ti200?

I demand that teddy bear in a contest :-)
It's the only think I am capable of Oc'ing :p

it will be revived by RichyB in September, and it won't be for sale under 150€ :^D

This is the best score I could get with the card on a KX7 w/T-bird 1.333GHz

http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4153319

not too bad I guess, should be about 500 points higher tho :Þ

w00t! 134FSB, you're pushing it! :p

Oh that... LOL. Its like that only because of that "Enhnace for Benchmark" feature of the KX7 SoftMenu III... Apparently all that thing does it add .5MHz to "boost" scores.

I'm going to try for 166MHz soon, not sure if my mem can handle it ;)

Eh, you could also try something between 133 and 166Mhz...? You're mobo has great potential (KX7), use it! :)

the mobo's great, but what about the mems? brand?

Here is the entire setup:

Athlon Tbird 1.333GHz (stock) w/ a modded Volcano 7 HSF
KX7-333R
2 x 128MB PC2100 Samsung brand mem
geforce 3 Ti500
two 40GB IBM 120GXPs striped for "performance" ;)
DLink NIC
Sony 24x10X40 CDRW

Using Win2K, with 4.37V 4in1s, with the latest detonators off nvidia.com (30.XX).

When I made that bench, mem was set to max timings, CPU decode to Ultra, Enhance for Benchmark enabled, and the enhance DRAM and AGP performance options enabled.
My refresh rate is locked at 60Hz with vsync off tho, will bumping it up to say 85Hz under 3DMark increase the score?

I could OC the system but I really dont know what to expect, my system temps are (at full load) 48C CPU and 35C ambient. Maybe a duct or perhaps liquid cooling would be best. Don't have the cash tho ;)