Recent content by nomas

I concur. I have always OC'ed my gaming rig - both CPU and GPU. Highest system load I have seen with a single GPU is around 400W*. 660W, with even 80% load at 528W, is plenty. *The latest figure is based on FX8370E 4.3GHz OC and R9 290X @ 1100/1400 - a reputed powerhog (supposedly).

If you run into a broken IOMMU implementation where the BIOS doesn't populate the IVRS table properly, you can fix it by injecting correct entries via a grub boot command. Reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254677 I fixed my ASUS motherboards this way. ;)

I have the new edition Sapphire TRI-X 290X. Runs quiet and cool even when OC (with +3% power) to 1100 MHz GPU and 1400 MHz memory.

*** Deal's DEAD. Amazon is sold out. :) *** http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008EMA5VU $104 is the lowest I have seen. It was no lower than $150 only a few months ago. Great ECC UDIMM for home server/NAS. Make sure you motherboard and CPU support ECC ram.

A bit of history: "The R3xx chip was designed by ATI's west coast team (formerly ArtX Inc.), and the first product to use it was the Radeon 9700 PRO (internal ATI code name: R300; internal ArtX codename: Khan), launched in August 2002. The architecture of R300 was quite different from its...

Nvidia made the right move with 980 Ti. Let's see if Radeon 9700 Pro will be reborn in 3 weeks. (: