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  1. Plimogz

    Mythbusters DOOM level

    Mythbusters had a video game special a couple weeks ago. Here's a link to the www.discovery.com page. The fourth item (DOOM level 1) gives you a taste; I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but it looks pretty cool. As an aside, the mythbuster's fruit ninja rig looks awesome.
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    Any pointers on crunching Einstein@home w/ R9 290?

    I was thinking about Collatz for my 290s, but the server has been down for the better part of 2 days and as I'm running out of WUs, I'm going to check out Einstein instead. Are there specific sub-projects I should shoot for, considering the 290s? And more importantly, are there specific...
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    RE: AMD 'dual graphics' (ie. hybrid CF) in mobile Kaveri

    The slide in this thread from the CPU forum got me wondering... What the [expletive] does " - Dual Graphics support with 'Crystal' series" entail? Now, a short search informed me that this very likely means crossfire between the Kaveri IGP and AMD's upcoming dedicated mobile gfx chips...
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    Looking for a small board drive a 6800K...probably.

    I'm toying with the idea of building up a Richland system just to experience what modern AMD integrated graphics + unlocked multipliers can feel like. And while I'm pretty set on just going straight for the 6800K, I'm having trouble finding an FM2 board which catches my eye around the $100 mark...
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    Eyefinity multimonitor extended desktop is a trap!

    Very pleased with myself, was I, when I got my brand new main monitor set-up on my desk. So pleased that I tried to tidy everything up and align all three screens through the windows display manager and such. For a minute there, it was looking alright and everything had gone smooth enough...
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    I want a 30" 25x16 display, but don't want to risk too much buyers remorse.

    I have two portrait 23" dell ultrasharps and could really go for a large IPS in landscape between them (currently have my 25.5" 19x12 TN ASUS). Ideally, it would have 1920 pixels of vertical resolution and PPI similar to that of my U2312HMs, but given the options I suppose 2560x1600 is going to...
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    Oh, Canada... Dell UltraSharp U2312HM, 189.99$ until 03/29

    I don't know how hot this is, but it's certainly warm enough that I chose to pick up another for myself -- and seeing as how there was a similar thread not long ago, I thought I'd point this out... As per the title, Dell.ca has the U2312HM for $189.99 CAD until March 29th. From what I can...
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    Can physics on a GPU be made to actually impact gameplay?

    From my gross understanding of how big, 3D games work, the CPU works out where and how everything in the engine interacts, and then sends the data off to the VGA for everything to get skinned in eye-candy. I figure that the evolution of 3D adapters has been to off-load more and more of the...
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    Changing Thermal Pads on AMD VGA RAM. An Upgrade?

    I'm thinking of replacing the stock thermal padding on my 7950's memory chips with some Fujipoly_Extreme_System_Builder_Thermal_Pad from FrozenCPU.com. I see that they classify their TIM pads as premium, extreme and ultra extreme, with respective thermal conductivities of 6, 11 and 17 W/mK...
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    Seriously, where the * is Nuclear?

    1-there's the waste, right? 2-I understand not wanting a "potential" Chernobyl in my backyard. 3-Oh, but what about the potential for proliferation (of something not at all weapons grade, as I understand it) ? I mean to have a discussion beyond those three points. Which while I do think are...
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    Donations to the Internet archive being matched 3-to-1 until Dec.31st

    While searching around for information on something from a few years ago I eventually turned to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine as I sometimes do, and came across their current year's-end, tax deductible, donation drive The idea of a 4X donation multiplier struck me as a pretty good...
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    Mega Man X Street Fighter: A free download, Dec. 17th

    In celebration of the 25th anniversaries of both franchises, PC gamers will apparently be treated to an 8-bit style adventure starring the little blue boybot battling familiar figures from the original Street Fighter cast. Free of charge! Check it out...
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    MemtestCL vram errors

    I'm testing out an open-box TF3 7950 and upon encountering some gnarly graphics behavior running Heaven 3.0 with both extreme tessalation and 8xAA have taken it upon myself to check if my vRAM might be at fault. I found a promising little program called MemtestCL developed by a Folding@Home...
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    Help me understand HDD Max Shock specs (in G's)

    Here are WD's specs for some Green-series drives (WD20EARS) I have: Shock (Gs) Operating (2 ms, read)__________30 Operating (2 ms, read/write)_____65 Non-operating (1 ms)___________250 For one thing, I don't really see why there's a time parameter in there. Though that's probably owing...
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    dsl started cutting out frequently a week ago

    I've been connected in this new place for roughly 2 months now and up to now I'd say that my DSL (or is it adsl) would remain stable for the better part of weeks at a time. But now, since late last week, I'm lucky if the DSL light stays up for a couple of hours at a time. I thought maybe the...
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    How do you test VRAM overclocking, error-correction?

    Are there any particularly good apps for isolating the effects of video memory overclocks from core speed? I'm toying with a 6950 and would like to find something that scales well with video memory speed to try and see first hand at what frequency error-correction kicks in and renders any...
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    BIOS settings resetting when power disconnected

    I've managed to lay hands on the core of my old s939 setup from way back (dfi NF4 Ultra-D, X2 3800 & 4x512MB of OCZ 533MHz TCCD, :) ) The system was pulled about a year ago on account of seemingly unexplainable BSODs and following tests and hardware swaps was deemed a lost cause (or at least...
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    Online shopping: Germany->Canada. Anybody done this?

    I'm looking to order some bicycle tires from Germany. The price is right. The only thing holding me back is some bad experiences with brokerage fees when stuff I ordered from the States was shipped via UPS Ground a couple of years back. So this German site uses DHL to ship to Canada. Bike...
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    [SOLVED, pretty much] SC2 performance woes: Rubberbanding, stuttering (lag?)

    UPDATE 2011-01-24: It seems that despite this being on a barely hours-old windows installation, with nothing installed but the bare essentials, the default background processes were enough to degrade my game experience. Downloading and running game optimizing software helped a lot; it ain't...
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    ATi 9800xt 12v line CURRENT requirement -- Anyone remember??

    Argh. I can't seem to find it anywhere and I'm still in my "look before you leap" phase, not yet in my "plug and pray" phase. Apparently specifying 12v Current requirements wasn't as big of a deal back then: www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/radeon9800pro/specs.html ?? Thanks
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    How will AMD's eventual switch to DDR3 only IMCs effect tolerance to high vDIMM?

    Evening all, I was just thinking about how great it would be to be able to upgrade my AM3 system with a new CPU once bulldozer eventually comes out. Only I then remembered that I read somewhere that AMD's current crop of AM3 chips have good tolerence to relatively high DDR3 voltages on account...
  22. Plimogz

    I want to make the walls shake

    Hello, all you fellow AT forumers, What I need help doing is figuring out how to set up a loud stereo system in multiple (4-5) rooms of my house. Before I get to meat of my OP, I want to state that audio fidelity/quality is not of the utmost importance to me. What I dream of setting up is a...
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    Looking for a Canadian watercooling connection

    Like the title says, I'm in Canada, looking to purchase some PC watercooling gear. I'd much rather do business with a Canadian-based supplier for obvious shipping/customs/warranty issues. Does anyone know of any such website? Or do you have any pertinent suggestions? Any advice is welcome...
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    Is the OCZ Z-series 550W worth it?

    Good Evening! A local shop near here has a pretty good price on an OCZ Z-series 550w PSU and seeing as how they don't usually carry much in the way of major brand name power supplies, I'm pretty interested in picking it up. The thing is, I can't find a review for this exact model. I don't...
  25. Plimogz

    Help me get my Deneb above 4Ghz.

    Good Day. I popped a new 965 C3 into my UD5P (790fx, ddr3) and went about trying to get this to work @ 4 Ghz with Vista 64. And, so far I've encountered a whole lot of fail in my attemps. I'm not really going to outline all of my settings, and all that other good stuff here, suffice it to say...
  26. Plimogz

    Help me troubleshoot this laptop, Please!

    Season's greetings, fellow Anandtechers! I'm trying to figure something out about this Toshiba Satellite P100 which I'd like to repair before calling it quits for christmas. The laptop initially came into the shop unable to power up, a diagnostic of "dead mainboard" was decreed and a...
  27. Plimogz

    video image quality on second monitor

    Having just hooked up a second monitor to my 4890 in order to play some video on it while I game full screen on my main display, I've noticed that the instant I start up the game the image quality of the video on the second monitor drops. As to the exact nature of the IQ decrease I can say only...
  28. Plimogz

    Regarding F@H, EUE and overclocking/unlocking

    Here's the situation. I have a 720BE X3. It unlocks to 4 cores pretty well; in fact, I've run 16 hours of prime95 blend and 6 hours small FFT on it as an X4; never crashes, no remotely obvious problems with it. however, it fails Intel Burn Test, usually between the loop 15 and loop 30, or...
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    been tweakin' the Dragon... platform that is

    I was getting a application crash in PCMARK Vantage - TV and Movies Suite on my X3 720 OCed to 3.6ish and applying +4% ACC to all cores fixed it; no more crashes @ that same frequency... ...what I'm getting at is: Weren't there AMD engineers on record saying that all of Spider's bios ACC...