Well XP shouldnt be your Os of choice even if your using only 2 cards much less 3, 4 and above. What I meant was your OS can support 1000 gpu's but if the drivers dont support it... whats the point. And I was additionally replying to the "hacked drivers" statement: because even if you change some parameter in the driver to allow 5 cards, you probably wouldnt see any scaling from the 5th card, since the rest of the driver code isnt optimized to use it.

Anyways back on topic I updated my vantage score a bit:
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/7999/34577.jpg

Nice! btw, looksl like someone's been submitting gulftown runs at the orb (50K Vantage)
How'd you break 300k in AQ3 at those speeds????????????

Good runs bro :toast:

AQ3 is very sensitive, so ram timings/subtimings & bandwidth play a role as well as of course just raw mhz. Im still bottlenecked by my cpu here, so every little increase in speed on the processor will bump the score up. Never run AQ3 in vista its awful :)

Thanks CP!

For some reason I can't get aquamark to run in W7 :(

u need the same patch for Win7 as u do Vista. I wouldnt bother cause it runs like crap just like in Vista an XP 64 in my experience, XP 32 all the way for that Bench

Thanks. Guess I won't even bother then.

You dont want to use vista thats for sure. You also dont want to use ANY 64 bit OS. XP is ok for it....but 7 32bit is way better ;)

Also you dont need to run any patch. Just navigate to the aquamark directory, and delete the file "Direcpll.dll" and you good to go.

Thanks for the heads up. I havent tried 32 bit 7, sorry for being misleading.
How much better in win7 does it run? Looks like Im doing an install soon.

Thanks guys. I'll give it another go when I RMA the board. For now I'm down from any benching.