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« on: May 21, 2010, 12:34:51 PM »

It's difficult not to compare it to my old P4 3.2 AGP XP Pro which has served me well for 6 years, but they are worlds apart.
I don't benchmark very often but 3dMark06 gave the P4 1655 points and the X4 16112.
The new rig runs cooler generally and much quieter and the Sapphire Vapor X HD 5770 just takes my breath away.
No compatibility issues as yet with Win 7 x64 with Steam games and Crysis running just fine.
IE8 has hung once or twice and I'm still having problems trying to get it to open links in new tabs as opposed to a new window.
Even though I have 4 Gb ram installed, I find memory usage a little high on normal use at around 39%.
Overall I'm chuffed to bits, although I detect that Adriana would now like me to give her a little more attention. facepalm


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« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2010, 12:36:52 AM »

How times have changed.
I'm now playing all my fav games in full res (where possible), 5.1 surround and now I've got it connected to the HDTV via HDMI for watching stuff.
Not a whimper from Win7, everything seems to work straight out of the box.
The only prog that doesn't behave, although it still works OK is Gigabyte's Easy Tune 6.
Updated Catalyst to 10.4 from the Sapphire CD drivers 9.12, which I should have done originally, with no problems and if anything a marked improvement.
Bloody marvellous!
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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2010, 07:54:26 AM »

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