Recent content by Whitedog

Odd you would want to upgrade from a system like that.

You can't upgrade from XP. You'll have to do a clean install. Win 7 upgrade disk will not install from clean boot. If you have XP, you have to buy full version.

Makes perfect sense to me. He is simply saying he needs to replace the whole PC. NOT just the CPU. If you can't understand that, you're clearly in the wrong place.

Thougt I'd chime in.... Just my opinion, but running that low of a resolution on such a large display, you will WANT to have AA COMPLETELY maxed out all the time... or you're going to "notice" a lot of jagged lines. That said, I'd spend the extra dough and get the ATI 4850.

24" for 200 bux? You're dreaming. I use an HD4870 on a 22"er. Dream machine. It is NOT overkill. Though I'd love to have 1920x1200 res... it's not really that big a deal, unless you have a lot of "interface" on your game screen that is taking up realestate (which is the problem I have...

Depends on your res. Lets have it. As far as Crysis goes, 1680x1050 and up, you'd be looking at ~a 2x frame rate increase. Lower res than that, probably less.

You're out of your mind. I can't even hear the fan until it as at ~35%. Which is what I run mine at minimum speed. And it is BARELY audible at that speed. Card runs at ~53°C @35% speed.

The problem you are overlooking though is if you do not MOVE that heat outside the case, it affects the temps of the rest of your components. I don't know about you, but I don't want a heater inside my case below my CPU. Blow that heat out the back of the case man.....:cool:

BTW, my mobo is a P5Q Pro.... NOT P5Q-E. For whatever that's worth. and I'm using the built in sound hardware. I have it set to AC97 also, not HD.

I just installed Cat 8.8 last night. Didn't help anything. I have a ghost image of this thing after I installed the OS and did all the patching and windows update. I'm going to try loading that image on an old hard drive and see if that resolves it. If so I'll just wipe my disk and reimage...

I have been reading a LOT of threads across the net about these boards having issues with shutting down. I am seeing a LOT of different fixes too. Weird part is I've had this thing for a while now and it just started doing this when I switched cases. I had it in my HTPC case with a 4850...

Yea, 54c at 35%. I set Tray tools to run at 35% from 50c to 70c... then jump to 42%. But at desktop it runs a cool 54c. Much happier with that. THANKS GUYS! Apoppin - I figured out how to make it load everthing on windows startup via profile.

Hey, that thing is Great! Love the tiered fan speed control. Does this load on windows bootup? Or do I have to activate it everytime I boot?

Uh.. UT Uhmmm.... hmmm... You posted that WHILE I was replying poopin... roll your eyes elsewhere.

Found it. The one web page I was on had the wrong path. \Local Settings\Application Data\ATI\ACE\Profiles Wow... that thing can get LOUD! hehe. I set it to 45% and it cooled it down quite well. I guess with it "manual" though, it won't speed up if I am gaming and it gets hot aye...