Recent content by Christian Ney

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    (Ocaholic) Asus HD 7970 Matrix reviewed

    np, I do review for readers not for myself :P
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    (Ocaholic) Asus HD 7970 Matrix reviewed

    Yes, Performance from a Catalyst driver to another can change quite a lot: AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta - HD 7970 CrossFire Gaming Performance AMD Radeon HD 7900/7800 Series - Catalyst 12.9 Beta vs Catalyst 12.4 WHQL Gaming Performance AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta - HD 7970 Gaming Performance
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    (Ocaholic) Asus HD 7970 Matrix reviewed

    @Russian, Thank you very much for the feedback, I will consider that for next GPU charts update (planned for next GPU gen). And STALKER was run in DX11. http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=901&sel_lang=english Review back online: Changes: Added...
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    (Ocaholic) Asus HD 7970 Matrix reviewed

    Yes wouldn't be a bad idea to drop CoD and StarCraft (already thought about it). Tessmark has been optimized by AMD but they did it wrong, I contacted them about it because I saw the issue but they never contacted me back on this one. Will drop it to. Wanted to add BL2 now that I bought it and...
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    (Ocaholic) Asus HD 7970 Matrix reviewed

    Yes 296.10 for everything before GTX 6xx series as they aren't compatible with any GTX 6xx we had to use 30x.x ones. 301.10 were the first drivers compatible wit the GTX 680 (used for only one card then I used the 301.24). 301.25 were the first ones for the GTX 670. I did also use them for some...
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    (Ocaholic) Asus HD 7970 Matrix reviewed

    Yes because for exemple you can't use the drivers used for the 660 Ti with the 660 as they aren't supported in those drivers. When cards are supported with the previous drivers I use them. nVidia told me there were no performanvce improvements made between those two drivers in the exemple...
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    (Ocaholic) Asus HD 7970 Matrix reviewed

    Hey guys, (I am the reviewer :p) So to clear things up: 1. Catalyst 12.4 use. We did use them to keep results comparable with previous cards we benched with. As they are more than onre or two, spending ~2.5 hours per card to bench them all again with latest drivers is not worth it...
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    SSD Reviews Thread

    SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB Review http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=732&sel_lang=english
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    SSD Reviews Thread

    Review: Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GByte SSD http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=722&sel_lang=english
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    G.Skill Trident X - (Z77 Line Up, Design, Specs and Price)

    ?? Rated and XMP at 1.65v 1.5v is for SPD
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    G.Skill Trident X - (Z77 Line Up, Design, Specs and Price)

    For the upcoming Intel Z77 platform and processors, memory manufacturers will have to update their portfolio in order to provide certified memory that match Intel new specs and performance. Here are the new high end modules from G.SKill - the Trident X - that come with a completely new design...
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    planning IVB build; 7770? 7850? inbetween?

    hum, true maybe Stone Giant has been more optimised for nvidia cards. For Tesselation benchmark I will then use TessMark over Stone Giant I guess
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    SSD Reviews Thread

    Hey onethreehill, just saw your ssd reviews database, if you want here is an overview of all SSDs we reviewed: Ocaholic - Storage - Review Here you can find our SSD Charts that we keep updated with every new SSD we receive: Ocaholic - SSD Charts To make your life easier if you want to...
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    The Radeon 7850 is an overclocking beast

    Thanks, yes at 1300/6100 the card was 100 % stable, at 1320+ or at 6120+ memory we had artifacts
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    planning IVB build; 7770? 7850? inbetween?

    Yeah I am on the way to update the benchmark selection: I will remove RE5, Far Cry 2 and World in Conflict and I will add: Crysis 2 Dragon Age 2 Skyrim Call of Pripyat Down of War II Batman Arkham City And Alien vs Predator What do you guys think ?