Well my highest score in the non-gaming realistic chart thingemabob 3dmark 2005 was 8010
the highest I could get the ultra with a voltmodded bios to 1.8v gpu was 510/1420 when I had better aircooling on the card, I removed it since my ears just didnt want to go deaf just for few more fps
hdd doesnt really matter, the whole stress test is cached on second run, doesnt touch the hdd. I run 4x 200gig s-ata 150 seagates and 2x 160gig ata133 western digitals, so nothing special about the hdd performance.
I use a msi neo2 platinum nforce3 ultra and the setup is a mere 8x agp as I got the card for halfprice a while back from newegg.com for R1450 and never plan on running sli in this setup neways.
Get yourself a64tweaker(tweaking memory and low level tweaks in windows) and clockgen for nforce3/4 motherboards(overclocking and testing and stuff in windows)
Very cheap, decided to go for it when rectron had stock, R210 a while back and well it works great and is quiet and huge enough ;-) but not a brick. lol
Asus M2N-E
AMD 64 3500+ AM2 @ Stock
2x512mb DDR2 400
XFX 7800gtx 256mb Stardard clocks
Western Digital 250gig SATA2 @ 7200rpm
Seagate 160gig ATA @ 7200rpm
400W no name Power supply
With Windows XP Pro w SP2
1280x1024 4xAA 16xAF Full HDR -> 109fps
With Windows Vista Ultimate x86
1280x1024 4xAA 16xAF Full HDR -> 108fps