well......what clock/memory speed does the 7800gtx run at ? ....my 7800gt stock runs at 470/1100 - which is equivelent of some gtx versions - is gtx a 512mb card ?
amd athlon 64bit 3700+ running at 2.2 - my system is as optimized as it gets (...o/c in future)....i am not quite sure if running 2 gigs of ram, instead of a gig of ram I run is gonna affect 3dmark06 score that much - that is a big difference !
I gotta score of 4223 - suprisingly low actually - ...im gonna retest later this night
It really does not make sense because my 7800gt runs stock at 470/1100 - i will have to retest tonight with 520/1250 - i choose a resolution of 1024-768 - i dont know if that can affect the score - i gotta see whatsup
its not even worth wasting the money on that processor - ...save for an upgrade - new motherboard will not show u a "worth the money" increase in performance
http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php
I use this software - it is free....just burn the image to a CD and boot from a CD - it is very easy to use and you shouldnt have problems
no...you do not need to reformat if you partition your hard drive...but you do, however need to format the new partitions, most likely ntfs for your everyday needs - your windows install wont be affected
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/biosflash1.html
this is a guide to flashing bios .....
btw, what motherboard do you have ? it is kind of wierd that it will not show you the entire capacity of the hard drive as its supposed to be - most newer motherboards will not do that....