Recent content by killbydemons

Modern video cards probably don't use up all of the available bandwidth provided by 16 lanes. Just like most apps don't benefit from DDR3 over DDR2 (except for synthetic benchmarks of course), there just isn't a need for that much bandwidth in typical computing...even if you are a "high end"...

Far Cry 2 is better :D

idk...a combination of that and securom maybe. It is not a driver problem, not video drivers anyway. Here is something interesting though which i forgot to mention. Bioshock worked fine before patching it to 1.1....after the patch is when it started acting up. But my friend won't play...

He has had trouble running all 3 of those games on his new system; for a while it was just Bioshock and Mass Effect that weren't working, then he tried Unreal Tournament 3 and found out that didn't work either. This is on his new system which he received recently... Q9450 @ stock P5Q...

A member of another forums i go to got a Q9450 stable at 4Ghz on the Asus P5E VM-HDMI. He's been trying to get me to buy the board because I too look to get a Q9450 in the future and plan on OC'ing. From what he told me, other X48 or 790i boards couldn't take the Q9450 past 3.4 or 3.6ghz, but he...

get a PC Power & Cooling, those have a reputation for being rock solid. I have a PC P&C Silencer 750 Quad.

My dilemma is that i don't really understand the mechanics of memory timings. My system is as follows... ASUS A8N 32 SLI Deluxe (socket 939) 2 x 1GB Corsair XMS DDR 400 AMD X2 4400+ (socket 939) So far as i know, these are the parts that are most directly impacted/reliant on the...

I have had an X2 4400+ for almost 2 years now, and have only recently tried overclocking it. I got it in a pc in my sophomore year in high school, and was convinced that it was the fastest proc at the time i got it, and from what research i have done on the 4400+ i was right. But i have not...