Recent content by DrBombcrater

I hope they make that gaming/pro switch available on the older Radeon Pro cards, too. Very convenient.

I can't believe the 480 would be UEFI only, the Fury series certainly weren't - I've run my Nano on old 790X AM2 boards with no problems.

I noticed how they always review all those Quadro samples that NVidia sends them... oh, wait. HardOCP is just embarrassing now.

I can mine successfully with a 2GB 270, it just needs: SET GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT=100

At today's price ($10 per ETH) and difficulty a 380 will earn around $90 a month, after power costs. But the difficulty level has doubled in the last month and seems set to keep rising rapidly, so I'm not sure you'd ever recoup the cost of the card. I bought my last mining card about three...

I've used six Nanos to date (two of which are mine) and they all have coil whine, but it's quite minor and the only reason it's audible at all is because the Nanos are so quiet. I've heard far, far worse on a wide variety of other cards. Really it's a non-issue. In fact so far my one and...

So much this. I'm surprised the Nano doesn't get more love for its great value. The price cut has made the Fury (and the 980 for that matter) look significantly overpriced.

Process improvements can throw up performance jumps like that. Remember the RV770, aka Radeon 4870? A 260mm2 chip that arrived and delivered performance equal to, and sometimes better than, NVidia's competing 570mm2 GT200.

Not sure about the 210s, but the Radeon 6450s will run dual monitors no problem. And four monitors from two 6450s will work just fine. The thing is to always try and make sure all cards in the system are of the same family, to minimise driver issues. Two or three 6450s will work together, but a...

The 2GB/256-bit Tahiti came out under the name 7870LE. It was fairly quick and could have been a good card but all the ones I saw were 1000MHz core @ 1.25v and ran very hot. It was plainly just a dumping ground for low-grade salvaged Tahitis that couldn't be used anywhere else.

There have been quality control issues affecting a couple of batches of the BL3200PT (and other monitors based on the same panel) which understandably makes people unhappy, doubly so with such an expensive monitor. But I've seen little other than positive reactions from the vast majority who...

I don't find ghosting to be a problem. It's there and you can see it if you look closely, but it's no more of an issue than with most VA or IPS screens. The Premium AMA (overdrive) setting is pretty good at reducing blur, at the expense of introducing some overshoot. There's not much I don't...

I've used several 27" 1440p IPS monitors and personally I haven't found one that even comes close to the BL3200PT. I did worry a little about pixel pitch on the BenQ, but in practice I've found 1440p more comfortable at 32" than 27". And the sheer size coupled with the AMVA panel's excellent...

If we define GPU as a programmable graphics system, then my first was the ECS chipset in the Amiga 500. My first VGA card with any kind of 3D function was a 2MB Matrox Millennium PCI card, which had very basic 3D (it couldn't do texturing, if I recall). That was replaced by a 4MB Permedia 2...

Tried a G3258 on an MSI B85M-G43 with latest BIOS (3.7) and no joy. CPU ratio control is locked and the processor can't be overclocked.