Recent content by J9Darkwing

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    New Card setup

    Got the fraps working last night. Slamming 60 FPS on F.E.A.R. 2. :) If I were to turn off v-sync I'm sure it would be higher but 60 is fine for me. Tis awesome. Thanks your your help and advice guys.
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    New Card setup

    That's a good point Denithor. In my research on the 280 before I bought it I read that the new drivers had work wonders for it but, like you said, the original drivers weren't doing the card justice. I bought F.E.A.R. 2 last night and with a res of 1680x1050 and everything maxed out it was...
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    New Card setup

    Denithor, I got the GTX280 in a day early (thanks tigerdirect) and put it in last night. Now, I can play Crysis in DX10 with everything on 'very high' and get 25-40 fps where before I could get that same performance in DX9 with setting on 'high' with the 8800GT cards in SLI. I would get 40-50...
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    New Card setup

    So maybe this setup: The 280 in the top x16 slot running the center monitor, the 8800GT in the bottom x16 slot doing nothing more than the physics, and the 7800GTX in the x8 slot supporting the other two monitors? Sounds good in theory. Thoughts?
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    New Card setup

    Just a little confusion here. . . Lopri, your first line is in direct conflict with your second. You state that I should leave the second x16 slot empty to allow the full x16 bandwidth on the first slot. Your very next sentence says to put the 8800 into the bottom x16 slot which, technically...
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    New Card setup

    My intention was to use 2 cards to power 3 monitors, the third card was a last minute 'aha' thing and I was curious if it would benefit me anything... which is why I asked. The reason why I posted here was to get advice on how to setup things so I can get the most from the stuff I have. Any...
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    New Card setup

    Hello all! I just purchased a BFG GTX 280 from Tigerdirect and it should be arriving tomorrow (4/8/09). I currently have two BFG 8800GT installed but because I use 3x 22" monitors I don't run the cards in SLI. When it's all working right, like in Crysis, I use the center screen for the main...
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    Tricky question

    I have a laptop I'm going to put in the livingroom and a desktop in my office (a room in my house). I'm getting a bluray dvd player for my computer in the office. I want to be able to access the bddvd drive that will be mounted in the desktop over my wireless network and watch movies on my...
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    Thanks rgallant. I got it all running. All four sticks at stock voltage including the sli-memory thing as well. I do intend to up the volts on the ram a little but just thought I'd mention that it all works. Bios version1503. 1601 wouldn't work right regardless of whether I used the asus update...
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    Updated bios, which I hate doing with Asus boards cause of all the hassle, and now all four sticks are working. Running memtest now and so far everything seems fine. I know updating the bios seems like one of the first things a person would do but when I originally had this problem, before I...
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    Ok, I've learned a few things since my last post and I return to find you've already touched on it. 1 is that my settings on my ram are 5,5,5,18 2T 2 is that the settings on the crucial website for these sticks are 4-4-4-12 3 is that if I go to http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/index.aspx...
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    I forgot to mention that I have NOTHING overclocked or overvoltaged now. OV didn't seem to make a difference so why run my stuff hot if it wasn't going to help? I would like to OC everything but I'll worry about that after I get this memory thing licked.
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    Salute! I have an Asus P5n32 sli motherboard, q6600 processer and 4gig (4x 1gig) of Crucial ballistix ram. bl12864AA804 For some reason my computer wants to crash if I put all four sticks in. Runs fine with 2 or three in any slot configuration but anytime I put all four in it wants to give...
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    Interesting Memory problem

    http://hcidesign.com/memtest/ A link to the homepage of the program I'm using. My fiance will be here in about an hour and we're going to go to dinner. Probably an hour and a half to two hours after that before I get home. I plan on letting it run until I get back.
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    Interesting Memory problem

    It's been running for almost two hours, both copies are currently at 89% with no errors.