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Yup, thats the challenge my mate has set me, he's got a budget of

urmm. also try ukparts.com
but this is certainly a very trickey challenge indeed

Thats gonna be very very trickey! 6800Ultra is

Well here is one I made up real quick so there may be somthing that requires changing or upgrading, managed to just about stay below the

I put up an AMD system  ;D They better for games  ;D

[quote]I put up an AMD system

I let someone else choose the mobo/cpu then.  I am not up to speed on value/money on Pentium.  Cpu I guess its buy the best you can afford but I am not sure wha5t the best mobos are for P4's

[quote]I let someone else choose the mobo/cpu then.

Swap the AMD in Gixers system he stated with a 2.8GHz 800MHzFSB HT.

[quote] Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v2.0 - OEM (KB-018-MS)  

Ended up with....... (deep breath!)

P4 Prescott 3.0ghz 800fsb, 1GB 3200 DDR (Dual Channel), Creative Audigy 2, Asus P4P800-E Deluxe mobo, Leadtek FX6800 GT 256MB Card ,160Gb S-ATA Drive, 19Inch CRT Monitor, Logitech Keyboard, M$ Intelli Mouse, Antec case  (WITH SHITE PLASTIC HINGE THATS ALREADY BROKEN! ) Logitech Wingman FF Wheel,400w PSU ,XP Home OEM,Creative Inspire 51. Speakers, CD/RW (52x) ,DVD Drive and no floppy!

Everything powered up on the first attempt!  ;D just tried 3D Mark 2001 SE and got "out of the box" i.e. no tweaking, 18,500!!!!  :o

Interestingly, no sound, I've not got an Audigy on my own machine , I hear of problems with them.... I get that sneeky feeling those problems lurk......

Tonight its going to be bench tested (in silence if the damn audigy don't play ball.... ) with FS9..... Desert Combat and CFS2 & 3  (assuming sleep don't drag me to my pit.... )

I'll grab some screenshots...... Lancaster's most  probable....

Trouble is, it isn't mine, & I have to give it to my

just tried 3D Mark 2001 SE and got "out of the box" i.e. no tweaking, 18,500!!!!    

Careful Paul - your gonna give some of us heart attacks! But then I had misread that and thought you had 18500 3D Mark 2003 points  :o

i.e. no tweaking

What sort of things do you tweak when you tweak?

Lol!

PS. What does it score in 03?

I reckon it should score a tad over 10000 in 3dmark 03 as its a fresh install with a nice g/card  ;D

[quote]
Careful Paul - your gonna give some of us heart attacks! But then I had misread that and thought you had 18500 3D Mark 2003 points

General Information
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP

DirectX Version 9.0c

Mobo Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Mobo Model P4P800-E

AGP Rates (Current/Available) 8x / 4x, 8x

CPU Intel Pentium 4 3300 MHz

FSB 220 MHz

Memory 1024 MB



Display Information
Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Driver Name NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Driver Version 6.1.7.7

Driver Status Non WHQL - Not FM Approved

Video Memory 256 MB

Core Clock 5 MHz

Memory Clock 0 MHz



Sound Information
Sound Adapter Driver Name SB Audigy Audio [DF00]

Sound Adapter Driver Version 5.12.1.383



Benchmark Settings
Program Version 3DMark03 Revision 4 Build 0

Resolution 1024x768@32 bit

Texture Filtering Optimal

Pixel Processing / Antialiasing None

Post Processing false

Vertex Shaders Optimal



Main Test Results
3DMark Score 11868 3DMarks

CPU Score 804.0 CPUMarks



Detailed Test Results


Game Tests
GT1 - Wings of Fury 264.8 fps

GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 96.0 fps

GT3 - Troll's Lair 80.2 fps

GT4 - Mother Nature 67.4 fps



CPU Tests
CPU Test 1 91.3 fps

CPU Test 2 14.0 fps



Feature Tests
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 3150.8 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 6049.3 MTexels/s

Vertex Shader 33.1 fps

Pixel Shader 2.0 168.2 fps

Ragtroll 53.3 fps



Sound Tests
No sounds 61.2 fps

24 sounds 54.2 fps

60 sounds 48.9 fps