3D Mark 05 released

[Maggi]

and free for download ...

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

[Tjalfe]

and every bloody server is swamped at this time

[Maggi]

check out Guru3D

http://downloads.guru3d.com/3dmark05/

[Paddy]

ready for loads of 'is my 3DMark'05 score correct' threads!

[Fat Tone]

I'm getting ~20k/sec from the .torrent available here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/3dmark05/

[Paddy]

Cheers Maggi! Getting 126kB/s

[Maggi]

167KB/sec from Guru3D on my end ...

[Maggi]

138.1 of 290.2 MB at 170 KB/sec; 15:00 remain

[Fat Tone]

eh, I can wait I'll prolly let it hose all your systems and wait for a patch anyway

I can't connect to the regular downloads - looks like Paddy got in just in time.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Did you see the minimum requirements?

# x86 compatible processor with SSE support, 2GHz
# 512MB of RAM
# 1.5GB of free hard disk space
# Windows® 2000/XP with the latest updates & Service Packs
# DirectX®9.0c or later
# DirectX®9.0 compliant graphics adapter that has 128MB of memory and is capable of PixelShader 2.0 or higher
# Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6

LMAO, they've mastered the art of really bloated and inefficent coding... I bet they're trying to get Microsoft to hire them or something.

[Maggi]

and did you see the need for MS Excell ???

ROFL

Anyways, d/l just finished and I shall dare and try to install it on this Parhelia driven dual Opteron ...

[Maggi]

Installer says
"Free disk space required: 620MB"

[Helevitia]

I just got to work, so no downloading for me I also have a busy week. I may not be able to see 3dmark05 until after the weekend. Oh well...

[Paddy]

boo... the download stalled and wont resume.

I'm trying the bittorrent link now.

[Fat Tone]

it's up to 30-40kB/s now