IT WORKS!!!! YAY!!!! got a nice nearly 5k bump in 3dmark03 too. didn't try 05 yet. so...... after $700 in parts..... plus another $100 for a Seasonic power supply (that i'll probably be taking back due to the fact that it does not have 6-pin PCI-Express power adapters, so right now i'm using the one thing that came with the card that requires 2 4-pin molex).
Dear god this is too damn quiet though. forgot what it was like to not have the CPU fan, and the hard drive, and the PSU with 2 80mm fans, 2x 80mm case fans, 3x 92mm case fans...... all running at the same time. now it's just the CPU fan, hard drive, and 120mm PSU fan........ couldn't imagine if i had a Zalman on the puppy. surprisingly though, the mesh sides seem to be allowing enough airflow to the components to keep them relatively cool. right now, my CPU's at 35C, and the video card is at 42C.
LA: you have any idea why in the hell the memory test takes SOOOOOO Freakin long on POST? i actually turned the Fast Boot thing (or whatever it's called) back on in the BIOS just so it would get passed that in less than a minute.