Recent content by hamltnh

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    Need help picking which ATI HD3870 to get

    I'd recommend the Visiontek--all the Visiontek cards come with a lifetime warranty--I just bought this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814129100 Great card--has a modified heatpipe cooler and is factory OC'd.
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    Crysis--XP32 vs. Vista 64--Why the Performance Difference??

    Yep--that's my experience too--still trying to sort through the why of that--seems that there is some disagreement about that observation though... To get equivalent XP32 performance in Crysis, I have to turn down the textures, shadows and post-processing settings to medium to get equivalent...
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    Crysis--XP32 vs. Vista 64--Why the Performance Difference??

    That's my understanding also, but I thought when you started a game it offloaded to accomodate the game.....
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    Crysis--XP32 vs. Vista 64--Why the Performance Difference??

    Yes, I am forcing Dx9 in Vista64 for my comparison.
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    Crysis--XP32 vs. Vista 64--Why the Performance Difference??

    Well, I've scrubbed my Vista64 install, uninstalled the ATI dirvers, cleaned the registry, reinstalled the 8.2 drivers again, etc. I've set both my XP and Vista64 options in the games to High on all video options except motion blur set to off and mouse smoothing set to on. XP is still...
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    Crysis--XP32 vs. Vista 64--Why the Performance Difference??

    I don't think it's a bad install--my experience is based on 2 different Vista64 installs since Crysis came out--both appeared to be clean--nothing hokey in Device Manager, etc. My only guess is the Audigy 2 sound card maybe--been alot of problems with Creative's drivers under VISTA. I don't...
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    Crysis--XP32 vs. Vista 64--Why the Performance Difference??

    No--only the official Cat. 7.11, 7.12, 8.1, 8.2 and ATI Hotfix drivers--that's it.
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    Crysis--XP32 vs. Vista 64--Why the Performance Difference??

    The title says it all--I'm running XP32 and Vista64 as a dual-boot--system config as follows: Intel Q6600 OC'd to 2.7Ghz 2GB DDR2 Buffalo RAM running @ 300Mhz DFI Inf 975X/G--FSB running @ 1200Mhz Visiontek 3850 256M graphics card--Cat. 8.2 drivers Creative Audigy 2zs sound card, etc...
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    E6750 on DFI Infinity 975X/G?

    I have the same board and the same question--anyone???
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    Probably would be OK for office production work, but I'm dubious about 3D gaming.
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    Yeah--Asrock support suggested uping the PCIE freq. to try and regain the OC, but I didn't understand that suggestion given the idea of the "Asynch" setting is to OC without disturbing the PCIE bus--I upped it to 117, then lowered it to 90, but it didn't help--still had graphics corruption no...
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    Thanks for the reply--I've ended up moving to a DFI Infinity 975X/G board. Some observations on the 775 Dual-VSTA: -- The Dual-VSTA worked like a champ when I was using my x800xt pe AGP card--I play alot of BF2, HL2, Stalker, etc. and it was rock solid hour after hour--not a single...
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    This is a very useful post--couple of questions: -- What does V-Link Speed do?--With my setup, If I set it to fast, won't boot into XP (with no other changes to the BIOS or HW) -- Since changing from an AGP card to a PCIEx card, I've had major problems with my Audigy 2 sound card in both...
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    It would be good to know exactly what this setting does. I've had problems (mentioned in previous posts) with moving from an x800xt AGP card to a x1950pro PCIE video card. I too tried this suggestion and have had some success with regaining some CPU OC that I lost with the video card change...
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    I received my response from Asrock support--they suggested I OC the PCIE bus to resolve the artifacting, so I bumped it up to 117, but still had artifacts. It appears that what limited success I had with the CPU OC (266 to 295) has gone away with the change from the X800XT PE AGP card to the...