vista sucks as far as audio is concerned - I like my audio hardware acceleration too much to give it up, and XP's ability to properly support it.
That, and I don't own a DX10 capable game that I feel is worth my time. Only DX10 game I own is Crysis.
hmmm . . . flashed both cards to 850/1251, although they bump themself back to 837 core. Did this because it seemed that in Crossfire, only one card was running at 850/1251, while the other was running at stock 800/1170 . . . this 3m06 score kinda confirms that in my mind:
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/756/3m0602kl1.jpg
I was shooting for a 4GHz run, but couldn't boot to the desktop
This rig would get as far as the bootup screen before crashing, and further vcore adjustment would net me a POST message "CPU overvoltage error" . . . meaning I might have to vmod this board to be able to reach 4GHz, and I'll defi need a better cooling solution on top of that.
But, there is hope for 4GHz, as the system was stable at 450MHz BUS at x8 multi:
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9454/cpuzqn5.jpg
. . . stable enough to even make a 3m06 run - but scored very high 17000 at the lower CPU speed. I wonder, though, if these cards are already peforming 100% and are just scaling with the CPU . . . would make sense with both cards running PCIEx16 2.0 . . . any thoughts?