Recent content by bleeble

If you've already got a card than can play the games you want acceptably, you might as well wait to see if the factory OCed ones come out in the next couple weeks. If you really want/need something now, just go ahead and do the step-up. There's typically not a huge performance difference between...

Should be here soon enough. And I'm pretty sure that's what manufacturers have been doing since factory OCed cards were first offered. ;)

With my radiator fans (3x Yate Loon D12SM) at 12V, the GTS is VERY noticeable at 70%. At 50% it's a bit louder than my case/rad fans. At or below 40% I can't hear it at all. 40% drops my idle temps from 56C to 49C, compared to the auto settings. That's with warm air from the radiator (while I'm...

What are you guys using for stability testing? Just 3dmark/games or something like ATI Tool's artifact scanner? I ask because at 775 core I get yellow artifacting in ATI Tool that the program doesn't detect. If I let it get bad enough, my computer locks up. I don't see artifacting in any...

The world's greatest CPU aircooling roundup: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106971 I bought my Ultra-120 based on that ("One of the best cpu coolers only a hair behind the Tuniq") and I'm pretty happy. But that won't stop me from getting a D-TEK Fuzion and PA120.3 now...

I just upgraded from F7 to F8i and performance went DOWN (except Sandra Mem. Bandwidth). I ran each of these tests several times and took the best score. Test: [F7 score] to [F8i score] SPi 1M: 18.250 to 18.390 Sandra Mem. Latency: 81 to 83 Sandra CPU Arithmetic: Dhrystone - 25707 to...