Damn, you're in Scotland. I was just about to say you can come over. I live in Australia. So LOL
Vista keeps blue-screening during install. I'll try once more and I switch to XP.
I cant download them because I'm capped. But I'll try the version that comes with the graphic cards. Ill keep you posted.
I might have to go out later so I'll post the results tomorrow if possible.
I've been reading this thread and find it very interesting and would also like to see your results that you get from this new i7. I agree that most games seem to be still single threaded and that maybe all these threads that the new i7 puts out, could be slowing it down in certain areas. i did alot of benchmarking on 3 different machines myself here, took all dam day, but in the end found out that a high end single core CPU will still match or beat a new dual core at gaming,(AMD's i tested) untill you get to games that are multi threaded and or Supreme commander =/
I see you keep getting a BSOD? what other GPU's do you have there? try to use a GPU that isnt so OMG and see if the BSOD goes away?
Were in Australia do you live? and i hear ya , it sux big time getting capped, most Americans have no idea what that is, but here in Australia its were we get a limited amount of downloads per month, and if we go over this amount it slows down to 64k, until the rollover comes up, witch is every month from the date you started from.
Keep up the good work, be good to see some real benchtests from someone at home, i find them more reliable sometimes. i don't trust all the reviews on the net, some are just like WTF? because its so different from another review, so i look at the whole lot and do a average.
I'm impressed that you got your hands on a new i7
well done.