Recent content by Matte979

Thats it! They are acting like fools. Nivida will not get any money from me or any person who asks me about which card to get. Corporate greed at its worst.

The site they come from is awesome. http://gathering.tweakers.net/...st_messages/1368223/10 They also have a 5850 vs 285 comparision. And Crossfire vs SLI. I am getting this card. :)

Awesome, I just ordered the sapphire version from newegg, also got back ordered at best buy and was very bummed out. Now its on rush order and overnight fedex. :) Thanks for the tip. I have been checking this thread practically all day. Finally a card that is worth getting to replace my great...

Hold for one more month, we will then get more details on the GT200 and the 4000 series, these cards will have the next architecture from both companies. For example we recently got details that 10.1 enabled cards can get around 20% performance increase with AA enabled in the game Assassins...

Wait for next gen. the memory speed / frambuffer issue at higher resolutions on any of the current gen 512MB cards really hurts performance in games like crysis and thats why AA kills any of these "die-shrink-gen" cards in Crysis, the memory speed and buffer is just to small. Wait for the...

I have a 1900XTX and tried both to upgrade to 8800GTX for a month then return it and then 3 months of 8800GT before I return it, it just wasnt worth it. The only games I play that I saw a gameplay diffrence was the newer COD4 and Crysis which I finished. If you want to feel a real diffrence...

After playing some COD4 yesterday and the Demos of Unreal and finishing BioShock. I always switch back to the Demo of Crysis and just marvel on how much more realistic it looks and how much more dynamic the game play is with real physics. Sure it?s not perfect but its a start of the future of...

You need to put things in perspective. With the UT3 engine and the COD4 engine you can just stay with an old card as they are not really using the latest bells an whistles as they have to run on consoles which have the performance of last gen top cards. Thats why you get so high performance...

I played it on 1920*1080 on my 1900XTX and a C2D at 3.5Ghz. Sure I cant do very high or DX10 and I have to have no AA and medium shadows and medium post processing. The game plays really good. At these setting the games features and graphics just smokes COD4 and UT3. Examples: *All the...

Try DVICO for HD card and use ATI 2600 XT silent from MSI for HD decoding etc. I use these with windows vista media center and it works great. I also have an XBOX 360 HD-DVD player which I play HD-DVDs through PowerDVD. BestBuy has this now for 179 and you get King Kong and 300 in HD +...

I bought an E6750 and the P35-DS3R. First I was very unhappy with it as I somehow could not overclock with manual voltage, it just would not post. I wanted a FSB faster than 400 and it just would not post consistanty beyond 390, I tried everything. I raised memory volt and lowered speed to 2 for...

I only run upscale for DVD to 1080i and HD-DVD. Get about 10-20% CPU load on HD-DVD. I have not run any other compressed mode. Check the AVS forum though they have a lot of info on this. I got an Opteron 170 running at default 2Ghz. 2GB memory running Vista Premium...

Passive cooled 2600 XT is great. I use it with the XBOX dvd player it works great.

Make sure you change power saving mode to Performance. I got big issues with HD-DVD playback when using balanced or power saver as power profile.

So whats the best headphones.. I use two pairs at the same time, one good for sound connected to soundcard and one for the microphone connected with USB, works great but would be nice to have one good pair..