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    Should Anand refuse to review 8800ULTRA?

    Of course they should review it if they get the chance. But if the card cost close to a $1000 and only get a minor performance boost it should be pointed out and the rating of the card should be lowered and maybe slapped with a "don't buy" recommendation. It will all depend on how the card...
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    CPU-Z Readings on E6300

    Still runs on the PCI bus. Should always be locked at 33mhz when you overclock.
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    Video Card Question

    Sounds like the card is reading the refreshrate info from the screen wrong and default to 70 hz. Don't know if it is fixable but it wouldn't hurt to ask ATI or the screen manufacturer, maybe there's a driver for the screen that will fix it. Might also be that there's a windows update that...
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    Small Blue dots on dark images? Vista, x1900xt, vx2025wm

    Could be just a driver thing. The next graphics driver (7.2) should be out some time coming week, try it and see if it fixes things. Can you post an image of the problem? Might help people come up with a solution. Maybe capture a short video with Fraps and upload it to Youtube.com?
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    how are these for GC's??

    If you want to be able to do some gaming on the latest games you should not get anything less than a ATI X1650XT or Nvidia 7600GT, more than 256mb not needed.
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    NF3 vista drivers NOT WORKING!!!

    Have no doubt they will work but do they need specific Vista drivers for the motherboard and are they out yet?
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    430W enough for x1950xt?

    Yes it should work unless you have a lot of extra stuff installed, like lot of harddrives, cd/dvd, case fans, lights and so on. You could use this PSU calculator to find out how many watts your computer will use. Make sure you have "Power Supply Utilization" set at 100% and your PSU should...
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    NF3 vista drivers NOT WORKING!!!

    I'm not totaly sure but someone mentioned there's no Vista compatible nforce 4 drivers out so it's likely there's no Vista compatible nforce 3 drivers either. Best bet is to check your motherboard maker or nvidia for Vista motherboard drivers. EDIT: just a thought, does Vista support AGP?
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    Perfect Gaming Rig Suddenly Gone Bad!

    Not quite Format the HDD, all partitions. Install Win XP Install Servicepack 2 Install Motherboard drivers and onboard sound drivers Install Graphic card drivers Install MW Install FRAPS In that order. Make sure onboard sound is enabled in BIOS and that you removed your soundblaster card.
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    Perfect Gaming Rig Suddenly Gone Bad!

    :Q Don't tell me you are stupid enough to think you can't get banned just because you are on a dynamic IP, doesn't work that way. For your problem, Format your harddrive and only install one windows either XP or Vista, not both. Then any service packs if needed, then motherboards drivers...
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    Vista vs XP ATI 7.1 driver

    Comparing 32bit with a 64bit Vista and a game with 64bit optimised code, 15% sounds possible. Think it is streaching it a bit too far though but somewhere between 10-15% should be doable.
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    x1950xt should I rma?

    Download ATI Tool here http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ Install and then run the program, click "Show 3D view" (button bottom left corner) and let it run for about 5 min. This will stress the card to about 100% and you will see what temperature your card run at. Without changing any fan...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    Running on BIOS 0910 right now, so far no problems at all, rock solid. Haven't tried any overclock though. Im using a Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality soundcard so I havent tried Soundmax yet but if you look at Anandtechs 965p chipset roundup they say it is fixed along with new drivers.
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    That's right, Windows XP 32bit will not use all of the 4Gb memory, think it was that it use about 3Gb, had something to do with memory-controller and PCIe lanes I belive. Windows XP 64bit has no such problems though.
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    Sub-par Oblivion performance with 1950XT

    Same here, no problems, games work great, some games are faster and some same as before but none are slower.