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those cold boot issues seem indicative of problems powering the video card. more voltage could possibly help and/or a newer high quality PSU

I checked my serial number on the utility here http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931 and it said my drive was unaffected and didn't need an update. I'm not sure what to think.

Thanks for all the advice.... i think i'll go ahead and try to upgrade the firmware. Hopefully, it doesn't brick.

I have one of the 1.5 TB models with the SD17 firmware. I haven't had any issue with this drive, should I try and upgrade the firmware to SD1B or should I just let the drive be?

The VAGP voltage settings adjusts southbridge voltage, I believe, which can help stability. The preset 4coredual voltage adjustments are minor and should only cause a nominal increase in heat.

Also, I would set your VDIMM and VAGP voltages to high.

I know on my board i cannot even come close to 290FSB stable so i run at 266 with everything running in sync and its all good but that's not to say your board can't. What PSU do you have? You may be experiencing power issues- you should at least have a decent 450-550W PSU with enough 12V rail...

no problem... I have no idea what the setting does. When I had it turned on, certain games would show some ugly weird geomety and texture issues such as triangles that seemed to spike out and go to infinity or take up the entire screen. turning the setting off eliminated the issue...

If your OC works then go with it. Change PCIE Downstream Pipeline to disabled. This setting usually causes big problems with most of the newer cards.

On a PT880 board a 9800GT may perform noticeably better than a 9600GT in some cases such as very high resolutions and with lots of AA but you may not be able to use those settings in most new games anyway. If the difference is only 20-40 bucks, though, you may just as well get the 9800GT. Newegg...

Well, I am loving my 780i board with e8500 with the two 8800GTS SSCs in SLI. Its at least twice as fast as the 4coredual setup was. You aren't going to see any differences with a better GPU on your setup because of the PCIE bottleneck. Plus, there really isn't anything THAT much faster than...

A GTX260 on a PT880 board? Don't see the point unless there are plans for a mobo upgrade, soon.

If you want to play Grid or Crysis, forget about the 3650. I have a Powercolor 3650 PCIE in my 4coredual rig and its barely sufficient. It overheats badly, too. I get 2D artifacts after playing a game. For the price, the 9800GT is a pretty good card. It should play crysis as well as a 4850. Its...

Unfortunately, with that board, you are not going to see a difference between a 150 dollar card and a 250 dollar card. The 4x PCIE bus is pretty much saturated with even older mainstream cards. You probably won't see any difference in speed between a 9800GT and a 9800GTX+. I would wager that...

I got the PCIE version... i tested it out this weekend and for a 60 dollar card you really can't beat it. I was able to play all of my games at 1280x1024 with good IQ levels (sans crysis).

Alex, I just built a SLI rig with the two 8800GTS SSCs and a MSI P7N Diamond 780i mobo.... its pretty fast, 15100 in 3dmark06 with the cards at stock. Putting a ATI 3650 in the 4coredual... it should serve as a nice little workstation/casual gaming machine/htpc.

alex, i picked up another evga 8800gts ssc off of ebay for $105. Should make for a good rig, eventually.

Yes, I believe there is a serial port on the 4coredual boards. I believe it is the smaller version of the RS-232 port, looks like a vga port except its male instead of female.

Yea, i am really wondering whether i should buy that card to go with my current G80 8800gts ssc for a future build. Two of those cards in SLI are really fast and are comparable to the newer gtx260 and 280.

common sense tells me that, yes, it does reduce its life. but common sense has failed me, before.

i hope you have some clean underwear

Just ran a 3dmark06 test at 1440x900 4XAA 8XAF and got a score of 7368. The 4850s seem to be cranking out great scores with high levels of AA/AF so depending on the rest of the system, you should probably get close to 9000. By the way, i found at the forced AA/AF doesn't seem to work for me...

I'd like to see the 3dmark06 scores of one of these 4850s at 1680x1050 4xAA on a 4coreDual or 775Dual. I'm getting 7000 from my 8800GTS SSC which is decent for such an old board- i'd expect the 4850 to get near 9000.

looks like not much gains are to be had with the 4850 versus some of the older 8800/3850/3870 cards.

most of the time, cpu and gpu fans will give you notice when they start going out by getting very loud and generally sounding like hell.

not for these crusty ole boards

Any G80 based 8800GTS (or GTX for that matter) should work on the PT880 Ultra/Pro boards regardless of brand. And I am quite happy with the performance of my EVGA 8800GTS SSC. It plays everything at 1680x1050 with all the eye candy. The ATI 3870 cards also perform well on the 4coredual boards...

I am using 169.25... previous drivers seemed to work slightly better for some older games and produced higher 3dmark scores but weren't as stable on my system. 169.25 has been rock solid with very few problems.

You would probably have the world's highest 3dmark benchmark for a PT880Pro/Ultra board- I guess that's something?! :confused:

hard to say whether it will work or not until someone actually tries it. My guess is that it work work if you had enough power supply for it.

The ATI 3xxx series of cards have never had the problems that the Nvidia PCI-E 2.0 cards had. They all work with the PT880Pro/Ultra boards without any flashing (albeit with their own driver issues).

did you install the drivers, initially, in safe mode? I'm not sure if this is still an issue but it was necessary on the 4coredual-vsta when the 8800 series first came out.

yup... time to get a SLI mobo

wow, great news... i only wish they had done this sooner so I could have saved some dough.

The latest drivers have given me the best 3dmark scores- 8900 with my setup which is similiar to yours except i have a dual core e4400 at 2.6ghz. The quad core must be helping out your cpu scores.

set flexibility to disabled... you'll probably get better bandwidth at 533, rather than 667, because its 1:1. The VIA chipset likes 1:1

pretty good results... the PCI cooler must be helping you out. My EVGA on full load gets up to about 80C on a cool day with the fan set to auto. On a warm day, it gets up to 90C. If I kick up the fan settings temps are better but not even close to what you are getting. I think I have PCI fan...

I use RivaTuner, yea. Rivatuner lets you change the core and shader clocks independently. The Nvidia control panel links the shader clock to the core clock when overclocking. I'm not sure what the formula is for figuring out what the shader clock would be when overclocking but its probably the...

I use the latest forceware drivers... 169.21. They seem to do fine. I can clock the card to 630/930 (shader clock linked) and it runs most games with no crashes. Some games, such as FEAR, will not play without crashing if the card is even overclocked just a little bit. My solution is to not...

Alex, this may or may not still be an issue but there initially was a problem when trying to install Forceware drivers for the 8800 series in Windows XP. You would have to boot into safe mode and then install the drivers. I haven't had to do this with some of the latest forceware release but if...