Recent content by fpsdean

That's already a massive upgrade as it is, and it's projected to spank Nvidias followup, which will also arrive late. However, it will not be out for August. ATI has said they wiill have DX11 GPUs coming out at the same time Windows 7 arrives. This will most likely not be the 5000 series...

I'm just seeing this now, but I have a super weird issue that's related. I pass IntelBurn Test. I normally find that if it's going to find a problem, it will do it in the first 5 passes, but I gave it 20 just to be sure..... Prime95: Small FFT & Blend pass no problem. Orthos Small FFT...

ATI said they would have the first DX11 cards out by the time Windows 7 is released, which means by 10/22 according to Microsoft's latest release date for Win7 (which actually looks promising -- it will be far stable than Vista upon release with superior performance - no doubt. But there's...

lol I know I am a bit late here but the game only detects 256mb video RAM with a 4870 so 1gb would be a waste with WAR too. Card isn't ready for 1gb. It's only marginally faster when running 2560x1600+ res with at least 8xAA. Not worth the extra ~$100 I have Crossfire 4870 512s. AA/AF...

Okay I have now tried just about every possible setting combination on the board. I'm a bit annoyed and it's downright obvious that I'm wasting my time I've come to the conclusion that: a) Corsair, like all other DDR3 brands I've used on several boards, have an extremely high defect rate...

Well I made it the longest I have made it so far last night. I woke up and it was going for 5 hours 30 minutes, went back to bed for a half hour and when I woke up it froze at 6 hours 8 minutes. Increased VTT to 1.26 and tried 1.51v on the northbridge (1.48v actual). Trying 1.59v on the...

Around 1.30v. Corsairs recommended setting is 1.70v. That sounds a bit high to me too. Others say they need a full 1.72v to do a little bit higher than what I am aiming for, so 1.63v (1.59v reported actual) might even be too low. I tried VTT at 1.22v with a NB voltage of 1.59v (1.55v...

I found the VTT part since I first posted. It's been fine at lower RAM speeds, so I never thought that VTT might be too low.

I have a 750gb RE2 and I am surprised how fast that drive is. It's one of the fastest 7200 rpm drives have seen. The RE3 is 15-30% faster. The review I saw plotted it against a Velociraptor with a RE2, the 1TB black edition drive and about 5 or 6 other SATA drives. It never was too far...

Hey guys I have a kind of weird issue. I have a Rampage Extreme with Corsair TWIN3X2048-1800C7DF (1800mhz 7-7-7-20). When I run memtest at stock speeds, it seems to pass for roughly a hour and after a while the video becomes corrupted. I believe I saw something changing, like it's a bad...

I own a velociraptor. It's a very fast drive... I was surprised how fast windows installed on it, and it keeps load times short, but it's more of a luxury for a gaming system than a requirement -- your load times will decrease, but it won't effect the playability of (well designed) games...

Try Nvidia, they never fixed Auto fan speed on the 9800gtx. Runs randomly between 4-39% and often goes down in speed when the temp goes up. They also never completely made manual 100% run at 100% all the time either... at least ATI offered a fix! I too am ready to buy now, but I'd rather...

They're still around?

I have a 9800gtx now, and you have to set the fan speed to 100% manually... auto is 4 to 39% and it gets o 90+ degrees in a matter of seconds. And for a while, when the card hit 60 degrees it reverted the fan speed back to manual. Nvidia actually fixed that (one of the few things they ever...

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