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Anyone managed to lay their hands on the evga precision tool for the 260 / 280?

I sent them a bitchy email yesterday and recieved one back today with a extra key that will give me 3 more activations,still not good enough.

The links posted above dont work,does anyone have a working link?

For this lot: X48 Motherboard Q9450 @ 3.4GHz 4 x 2GB Memory 3 Hardrives 8800GTS 512MB 3 120MM Fans DVD Drive Auzentech Prelude Soundcard

Yes i`m running at a lower clock speed but overall i have much more cpu power as my E8400 had 2 x 4GHz cores giving 8GHz and the Q9450 has 4 x 3.4GHz giving 13.6GHz. So for an extra 5.6GHz of cpu power i thought i would of gained more than 3.5 mins off the time it took.

Ive got a minor problem,every so often my screen will flicker and it just goes blank for a split second then comes back on?

850.

Q9450 8 x 425 - 3.40 X38 DDR2 5 5 5 15 Vista x64

I was running the benchmark from within winrar that was the problem once i extracted the files into its own folder it ran fine,my mistake. Looking at the results from the E8400 in the list that was running just over 4GHz i`m pleased with my results. ---------- RUN1PASS1.LOG encoded 1442...

Cant seem to get this benchmark to run,ive downloaded and installed AviSynth and the Benchmark. When i load the x264_benchmark-720p.bat batch file and enter a name then enter the box just goes from my screen and nothing happens?

Thanks for the replys,dont have the E8400 anymore sold it to a friend.

Maybe its just nero that is the problem and it cant fully utilise the quad. Using the E8400 both cores were always 100% maxed out but ive just noticed using the quad that the 4 cores usually fluctuate between 70-80% and never hit 100%.

Used to have a E8400 running at 4GHz,my Q9450 is running at 3.4GHz. I took note of the time it took me to convert a 700mb avi to a dvd iso in nero7 and that was 21m 54s. With my Q9450 on the same setup it took me 18m 30s so not much of a difference,i thought it would of been much faster?

Im getting high idle temps are on my 9450 with my maximus formula,50,51,51,52.

Anyone any tips on cleaning this? On my Dell i used a microfiber cloth and it did pick the dust up but it doesnt on this benq it all just stays on the screen.