If so, could you please list all of the retail boxe's contents? [cds, cables, manuals, whatever]

Thanks.

btw, congrats on the card matey!    'Tis a real performer and I'm sure you'll have fun!  Give it some real performance testing, and give us some results and some screenshots to see what it can do! 

What is your current system specs?  I have the card, but need the machine! 

Need a new CPU, mobo, and memory. Hope the ATA-100 hard drive will be quick enough to run modern games still.  What do you reckon?

My system;

Abit NF7-S Revision2.0, Athlon XP-M 2600+@3200+, GeiL Golden Dragon 512mb Dual Channel Kit [2x256mb], and currently an ATi Radeon 8500 64mb, soon to be replaced by an el' sexy Radeon 9700pro 128mb  8)

Should score something like 5.5k in 3dmark03 when i get the 9700

As far as your system goes, it's just fine the way it is
atleast imho

And u know how madonion/futuremark are.... "when it's done", nobody knows yet for sure
there are some pics floating around, pretty freaking amazing to say the least.
and it *requires* a ps 2.0 card, it just won't boot on ps 1.x...

Official pics;

http://www.futuremark.com/news/data/200409/2004091404/3dmark05_cannon_big.jpg
http://www.futuremark.com/news/data/200409/2004092105/3dmark05_ship_big.jpg

Leaked pics;
http://forums.x-tremepcshq.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=479
http://home1.vr-web.de/~huberf/3dmark05.jpg
http://www.chip.de/ii/26602850_b04be43ccd.jpg

3DMark05 Minimum System Recommendations/Requirements:

* DirectX 9 compatible graphics adapter with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 or later, and graphics memory of 128 MB or above.
* x86 compatible processor with SSE support, 2GHz or above
* 512 MB system memory or more.
* 1.5 GB of free hard disk space.
* Windows 2000 or XP operating system with the latest Service Packs and updates installed.
* DirectX 9.0c runtime installed with the latest updates.
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 installed, for some 3DMark functionality.
* Microsoft Excel 2000, 2003 or XP, for some 3DMark05 Pro functionality.
* Microsoft DirectX 9 Summer Update 2004 System Development Kit is required to run the image quality test using the reference rasterizer (3DMark05 Pro).


Alot of info to digest

Anyways, anyone got the contents of 9700p's box yet?

Re 3DMark05 and my machine.  My machine's ok for now, but requirements are quickly creeping up on me and I can't see how this rig is going to last me throught my final year at uni (come on, I'm gonna need to play some games some nights when I'm not boozing it! ) without some updates.

As for 3DMark05, I reckon my score will consist of around -948  .

My current 3DMark03 was around 3.5k - 4k I think.  I can't remember because I formatted my machine last week and have put no benchmarks back on yet.

K so out of the package, i ain't missing anything important `sides the dvi->vga adapter :S
can grab one o those easily on ebay

u know what really sucks though?
3DMARK05 IS OUT AND I STILL CAN'T BENCH MY PC ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!@#%%&@$%&

link; http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark05.shtml

3DMark05 is out!? !? ?? 

Whaaaaat??

I'm there!

(Downloading at the speed of light!  )  even though my machine will struggle to a crawl with it!