Recent content by Marty502

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    Crysis 3 Single Player is here...visuals are epic

    This is gonna rape my poor rig so bad. Time for a CPU upgrade and to overclock the crap out of my 7850. And more RAM. Sh*t.
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    Radeon HD7850 owner's thread

    I bought a Sapphire 2GB 7850 a week ago, replaced a 4670 in my extremely budget-friendly rig. Overclocked it from 860/1200 to 1050/1350 without a sweat. Doesn't really show in anything but benchmarks so I'm keeping it stock ATM. Absolutely love this card, it's very very fast and quieter than I...
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    Best overclocking stress test program?

    Furmark can be dangerous if you're dumb enough to do a Torture Test (or whatever it was called, Burn or Xtreme or something I think it was) with untested GPU and memory speeds on your video card. Common sense. If you know you're pushing hard, downclock a bit and then run the test. And if...
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    Got a Thermaltake Pure Power, 600 watts I think my friend. I've had it for around 4 years, never had much of a hungry system so I imagine all the capacitors inside are doing fine. EDIT: It's this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153042
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    Thanks for your input BTW dudes and dudettes on what CPU I should buy, but it's not gonna happen soon anyway... I have other priorities and keep in mind I was doing fine with a 939 rig 4 months ago! If it hadn't imploded I'd still be using it probably.
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    I thought this board is supposed to support just about all 1155 chips out there? Am I wrong? Haven't read much lately, I thought I was OK.
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    Yup, I can definitely notice my CPU runs out of juice in Deus Ex and other games, even with AA cranked and everything. I bought this chip because I had to, I was short on cash and my old 939 rig went belly up so I needed a computer ASAP. I'll try and buy an i7 once the prices come down a bit...
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    I bought a 2 GB Sapphire Radeon 7850 a few days ago, replacing an ancient Radeon 4670 512MB . Easily the biggest performance jump I've ever experienced in a computer! I'm not that much of a gamer, but I went from a 1680x1050 to a 1920x1200 monitor and that was the nail on the coffin, even...
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    What clock would an 8800GTX need to be at to match GTX680?

    The 8800GTX was an absolute monster. I had one for a while in a AMD X2 2.6 Ghz and Crysis was amazing on it.
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    Why should I prefer a 7770 over a 6870?

    Just noticed the 7850 is only 25% more expensive than the 6870, while potentially around 50% faster (with overclock) Screw CPU bottlenecking. 7850 it is! I'm excited, first time I'm ever buying a powerful card.
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    Why should I prefer a 7770 over a 6870?

    The 7870 is also twice the price, man... Too much for me. The 7850 I could pay, but it's not much faster than the 6870 I think? Though it seems it's an overclocking beast so maybe I could convince myself with that.
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    Why should I prefer a 7770 over a 6870?

    I think it should be OK with this processor by now- I just bought my mobo/cpu/memory two weeks ago and I'm so ridiculously GPU limited it's not funny. I definitely need a stronger GPU, the 4670 was OK in 2008 and I don't wanna spend much. If the Pentium falls short then I'll sell it and buy an...
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    Why should I prefer a 7770 over a 6870?

    I have a decent PSU and I want to make this rig as fast as possible for gaming without spending too much. I'll be playing at 1920x1080. I've seen some benchmarks and the 6870 seems to wipe the floor with the 7770... and they're almost the same price here. I'll also buy another 4 GB stick...
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    "Coil Whine" from my video card is so intense, it comes through my headphones

    Hey man, I recently had a situation similar to yours, got lots of coil whine from my computer. It got the loudest AFTER closing anything that was graphic intensive, and it could last for 20 minutes. Voltage readings were odd sometimes too, very fluctuating. I had a solid PSU (Thermaltake...
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    Stock cooler on Intel Pentium

    BTW, I'm using like I said a Hyper 212 Evo with my G630 and with the fan at 600 RPM the chip idles at 24°C and after 5 minutes of Orthos it reaches 36°C, while dead quiet. Lovely numbers! So definitely for acoustic reasons it's a good choice, I'm amazed by how cool this chip runs.