Recent content by oddity21

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    FarCry vid card review

    Game stutters both with 8.10 and hotfix. Stutter is evident with anything from 0-4xAA. Catalyst AI options have no effect on stuttering - turning the thing off seems to lower fps in DX10 mode by quite a bit as well. Stepping down to 1280x800 makes the stutter feel less severe due to high fps...
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    FarCry vid card review

    I'm getting the same severe stuttering. FPS in DX10 is better (according to the benchmark at least), but the game stutters so badly that it's almost unplayable. Everything's just fine in DX9 though.
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    How are there still should I buy 260 or 4870 threads still?

    Another thing to take into consideration: 260 is still retailing in many countries at its original price point. Then again, that would make the 4870 a clear winner, right?
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    ATI 4xxx Series Thread

    Would be lovely to see single-card numbers...
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    nVidia GT200 Series Thread

    I'm still maxing things out comfortably (except Crysis, obviously) on my 22" panel with a single stock 8800GTX. I don't have any plans to go for a bigger monitor, so the GTX 280 is probably overkill for me.
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    Penryn E8200 available at my favorite store...

    FYI, I live in Thailand. I just spotted a price listing for the Core 2 Duo E8200 on the website of a store I frequent. It's listed at exactly the same price as the E6750. Let's hope E8400 gets an early release too...
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    Mobo or RAM?

    Just ran Memtest on each stick. Just one pass per stick though. One stick from the brand-new pair passed all tests. The other one from this pair had four errors in one address. As for the other pair: one had 22 errors in 5 addresses, another had four in one. Guess the first one from this...
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    Mobo or RAM?

    I turned on my PC this morning and it gave me one long beep and three short ones, the signal for a memory problem. It then boots normally. World in Conflict benchmark performance dropped from 24fps to 14fps at 1680x1050, everything maxed out in DX10 mode. Experienced sharp performance drops in...
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    Call of Juarez benchmark DX10 out

    Using 158.45 drivers. 1280x1024/no AA/2048x2048 shadowmap/high shadow quality: avg 27.0 1280x1024/no AA/2048x2048/normal: avg 27.5 1600x1200/no AA/2048x2048/high: avg 23.5 1600x1200/no AA/1024x1024/high: avg 24.8 (shadows became really blurry for a second or two in some spots)
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    One CPU core 'disappears' after overclock...

    Yeah, I've been trying to get help everywhere without success. Usually a Google search turns up solutions to any problems, but nothing comes up at all with this.
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    One CPU core 'disappears' after overclock...

    I have an E6600 running on an ASUS P5B-E. Today, I decided to push my rig a little and pushed the CPU to 325x9 at 1.4v. Somehow, the BIOS message "Core: 2" was gone and Device Manager reported only one CPU. 3DMark06 CPU test score dropped from 2080 to 1300-ish, essentially proving that only one...
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    Sub-par Oblivion performance with 1950XT

    Get rid of AA, then reduce grass distance or get the Shorter Grass mod. Big performance gain right there. I run Oblivion at either 1280x960 16xAF 16xQ SSAA or 1600x1200 16xAF 4x SSAA, with Qarl's Texture Pack 2, Natural Environments, Cities Alive at Night, Phinix Waterfix, Qarl's LOD Normal...
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    Post your GPU History

    S3 Trio 64V+ 2MB 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee 16MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 32MB NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB (broke one, bought another one) ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 6800 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB
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    G80 Drivers

    97.44 = weird lines and 'skewed' Cheydinhal trees in Oblivion for me. I've rolled back to 97.02 for now. I get flickering distant textures in Rainbox Six: Vegas with 97.02. Can anyone confirm if this is a driver issue?
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    Post your latest 3dmark05/06 scores

    9989 in 3DMark06. No OC yet.