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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    I found these two articles: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/23/gtx_480_sli_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x8x8/ http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/16/sli_cfx_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x16x8/ These have made me realise you guys are right.
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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    OK so you are saying that if my friend was playing Crysis on everything maxed with max AA at 1920x1080 he'd get only 1 or 2 fps less on x8/x8 than on x16/x16? Do you think we'll be able to get >35fps even on the final boss?
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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    The reason we are so dead set on a Crossfire/SLI setup is because my friend has a huge LCD screen. It's a 40" Samsung LCD. Obviously he is going to need higher resolutions to compensate and we believe one graphics card just aint enough and that we'd need two maxing out their potential at...
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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    Yeah that Sabertooth is exactly what we're looking for. It's a much better price too. I think Socket 1366 is still the way to go because it's the only way I get x16/x16. Here's the barebones I've got planned: What do you think?
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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    Remarkably I can get a seemingly better (than SB) 1366 rig cheaper than Sandy Bridge. I lined one up in Scan's checkout basket and it's £300 cheaper and that's even after the SSD and 8gb corsair 1600mhz vengeance memory added in, which I didn't put in on our first planned Sandy Bridge rig...
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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    OK I guess I have to trade x16/x16 for Sandy Bridge! Unless... Which is better, Socket 1366 or 1155? I can def tell my friend that 1366 is not at all bad since my comp is 1366 and runs suuuper fast. It just struggles when you put it under a lot of stress in games like Crysis. And the turns...
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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    Looks like I got a choice between the Maximus Extreme IV and Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7. Pretty sure that MSI one I mentioned only does x16/x8. The WS Revolution only does x16/x8, see here: http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=460&page=1 If Gigabyte's P67A-UD5 is...
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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    What choices are there? I know, I know, "what's your price range?" Current rig I've got lined up for him is £1387 after VAT+delivery. He says too expensive. This is what I had lined up: At first I couldn't find any mobo that does x16/x16 that wasn't in the super high end price range...
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    NEWB QUESTION: Brand new comp & can't figure out how to get max resolution.

    If you haven't got a 16x PCI Express slot, God help you.
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    5870 or 5850? 1920x1200

    hey y'all don't know, some geeks gets they lovin, i got mad skillz yo, i got to show her my O face, know what I'm sayin? :D
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    5870 or 5850? 1920x1200

    Dude why don't you get the 5850 and spend the $90 on wining and dining your Mrs, and buy her a nice dress?
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    If you look at my other thread about my hard drive I think it could all be related. I've had a couple of power cuts or times when the electricity has flickered on and off, that's happened a couple of times when my computer was on and also when it was in standby. Ever since I started putting it...
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    Suspected Maxtor 500gb SATAII drive failure

    Well I dont need any data recovered since I've formatted the drive during the time I could get to the Windows installation and it would be detected. But now, no drive, the installation doesn't even fire up sometimes. Thanks though. I was merely hoping there might be something I can do, or a...
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    OK this is scary. I put them back in but in a different order and now it won't even POST!
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    OK it worked fine with all three sticks in slot 1. Now what?
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    i7 920. What temps should I expect on stock cooling?

    I've been getting as high as 60 degrees C at 2.66Ghz but its gone down to 45-50 lately. Is this bad?
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    What exactly am I looking for? Surely the system won't boot/POST with trip channel sticks with only one inserted?
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    OK I reset to fail safe defaults, saved and exited, it restarted itself. Still saying 2048M in Total Memory in Standard CMOS Features. News: Now 1066mhz DDR voltage = 1.5v "QPI/VTT" = 1.2v XMP set to Disabled System Memory Multiplier (SPD) set to Auto DRAM timing selectable set to Auto...
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    OK I will load "fail-safe defaults" and report back. My sticks are already in 1, 3 and 5 as directed in the mobo manual. Any reason for VTT to 1.35v? What is it anyway? I'm new at this game!
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    Suspected Maxtor 500gb SATAII drive failure

    Its funny you should say that because I have had problems POSTing recently. Its also uncanny that you say "from time to time" - that's exactly the nature of it. My motherboard doesn't have POST beeps, only a debug LED. It kept trying to POST and stopping and restarting the machine itself. Its...
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    XMP Profile = "Profile1" - options are Profile1 and Disabled. VDimm = 1.65v QPI/VTT = 1.2v Worth mentioning that last time I played around with the BIOS settings I noticed my RAM timings were lower than they are as default out of the box (9-9-9-24) so I jacked them up to what they should...
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    Hmm let me go check that stuff. Be right back!
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    Suspected Maxtor 500gb SATAII drive failure

    Before I send my drive off to Scan (www.scan.co.uk) to have them take a look at my drive I want to ask you guys if there is anything I can do myself to have it working again and to check whether it really is the drive that's at fault. Spec in sig. I bought my system back in December...
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS, only noticed it recently. Yes, they are seated in the slots properly. Any suggestions what the problem is?
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    Failure to POST - Gigabyte EX58-UD5

    What's the purpose of that?
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    Failure to POST - Gigabyte EX58-UD5

    Wondering whether it can have knock on effects. Now my hard drive has also failed. Graphics card, hard drive, god knows what else.
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    No image displayed post-powerON - Gigabyte HD4870 1gb

    I'm sitting playing Battlefield 2 the other day and all of a sudden my screen goes blank. I hear sound coming out still. My computer is still on. Must be the graphics card I think to myself. But it might not be in light of this: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2035552 So I...
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    Failure to POST - Gigabyte EX58-UD5

    My specs are in my sig. Had my computer about a year now. Lately I been having trouble. Sometimes when I get a power cut and turn the computer on it fails to post. It doesn't do the memory test and if you leave it there it just restarts itself over and over. The (usb microsoft reclusa)...
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    Recurring issue with 4870

    Hi guys Today I rather belatedly got my copy of both Bioshock and Oblivion. In both games I have an issue with my graphics. Both games run super smoothly on the absolute highest settings and resolution. HOWEVER, when you walk around in dark areas, red stars appear a lot. This is much more a...
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    More FPS in CRYSIS

    Dude, seriously? Is that in UK Pounds Sterling or US$? £400 for a GFX card?! YEAH RIGHT. Anyway, I checked out some leaked benches for that 5870, apparently it runs like GOD and is TWICE+ as good as previous cards incl nVidia's top one. If it is a beast, I want it! It supposedly does over 40+...
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    More FPS in CRYSIS

    actually realised i posted this in the wrong forum as well i am so fail right now... anyway realised i want 5870..... WHEN IS IT OUT
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    More FPS in CRYSIS

    wow dude sounds like the thing i want. back in December the word on the grapevine was like "get ATI, nVidia are only marginally better in performance with their best card, but their card costs like twice as much, not worth it" so did that and glad. still the same situation? apparently phenoms...
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    More FPS in CRYSIS

    Oh DEAR. Dude u are right. Its actually 1gb, I FORGOT. Oh SHT LOL. I just bought the wrong card. My bad. Anyway, just assume gettin 2x 1gb, i will sell the one i jus bought lol No its not arrived yet
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    More FPS in CRYSIS

    O I see what u did thurr Forgot my SIG says 1gb. Its 512mb.
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    More FPS in CRYSIS

    what no dude they are exactly the same card i made sure, picked the 2nd one up off ebay for like £85, pretty sweet
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    More FPS in CRYSIS

    OK I bought my PC back in December, I think its the nuts, I love it. Anyway when I bought it I was led to believe it would probably be able to get 30fps minimum on Crysis w/ settings maxed out. I run it in 1680x1050, Enthusiast settings, vsync, 4x AA. It runs at 20fps steady, which is...
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    Tweaking Fans and Overclocking

    I really ought to post my specs in my sig but I never post often enough to warrant it. I am using a Gigabyte 1gb 4870 - and not the one with the crappy Zalman cooler - this is the one with the full graphic and cover (and its actually pretty rare). I bought this card from Play.com for a mere £170...