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    Video Ram: 2gb or 4gb

    Don't they bundle Far Cry 3 with new Radeons too?
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    What could be causing my rig to HANG?

    I had this issue when I updated to cat 11.2. Sometimes reboot other times hard hang and I would need to switch PC off first. I was pretty sure my PC was dying (CPU is overclocked for last 4 years) Problem was it wouldn't happen when I ran stress test like Prime. A rollback to the previous...
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    Win 7 Pro Dual Boot/Virtualization question

    Will have a look at that. Thanks!
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    Win 7 Pro Dual Boot/Virtualization question

    Hi all, I essentially need a second instance of the OS on which I can install various applications for testing purposes and I don't want to mess with my primary install. Is it legal to dual boot or run a virtual machine with the same license of the OS? Any thoughts would be appreciated. G
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    New AMD Catalyst 11.2 drivers available

    You could try using RadeonPro to set individual profiles. I've not had a chance to test with the new drivers (last I installed was 10.4 ) but I don't imagine there will be issues.
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    New AMD Catalyst 11.2 drivers available

    Does anyone here make use of the Image Scaling? I can't seem to get it to use 'Maintain Aspect Ratio'. The last driver I used was 10.4. If I set the screen resolution lower than the monitor default I could make this selection and it would keep the setting when reverting back to the preferred...
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    Anything more comfortable than Logitech MX510?

    Agreed. Bearing the above in mind I recently picked up a Razer Imperator. I was surprised at how good a fit the mouse was for me (coming from an MX1000). Good luck.
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    where did the scaling option go for Nvidia??

    You may not need to lower you res every time. With ATI you lower the res to get the scaling option selected. Once you return to your native res the option is greyed out but still active. That is of course only useful if you always want scaling enable.
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    SATA and AHCI Confusion

    I had this issue back in 2007. At the time I could not find a way to Enable AHCI without re-installing windows. I ended up sticking with the IDE. I also don't believe that there was any noticeable performance difference between the two modes but that may have changed with newer drives ...
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    Nvidia fan regrets ATI purchase

    Some people have issues with Catalyst AI although I've never come across any myself. I only upgrade my drivers every 3 months or so but have yet to have any driver issues with my HD5850. In fact I can't recall the last time I had a show stopping bug with either nVidia or ATI.
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    Recommend a Video Card for Stacraft 2

    The OP title says SC2 but in is first post he mentioned his playing the beta.
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    11 GTX480 vs. 5870 reviews in one chart (Updated with temps & OCs)

    The refresh of these cards should be impressive.
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    Do ATI 5000 Series recover from sleep well?

    No problems running a HD5850 on Win7 64bit. I don't recall ever having issues with sleep and video with Vista and Win 7. My sound card on the other hand did not like when I was on Vista.
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    Anti-aliasing vs Anisotropic filtering

    AF is my preference if I have to choose but a I'll take a combination of AA/AF if the performance is acceptable.
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    nVidia's GPU killing driver

    I always thought that the BIOS would override any driver specific fan settings if the GPU got too hot. On my previous card this seemed to be the case when setting a manual fan speed ...
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    ATI 5850 idle Temps

    I have an Asus DK 5850. My idle is typically 50C with fan speed at 24% (I've left it on auto). Room temp is around 23C
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    ATI Northern Islands (6xxx) also at 40nm?

    I would guess that they would try one of their less complicated chips on the new process. If the foundries are ready early next year we may see a budget version of Northern Islands or perhaps some mobile chip?
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    Great, my eyefinity setup gets me nauseous

    Same with me. Half Life 2 has affects me the worst.
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    Dedicated PhysX Card

    At the moment it does appear that way. I wonder if some of the entry level Fermi cards (between 50$-100$) would be able to provide a decent Physx experience as a dedicated Physx card. At this point in time I would say that Physx is only worth while if your primary display card is in fact an...
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    Radeon 5xxx Owners Report Grey Screens/Hangs

    It appears there is a hotfix ... http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Grey-screen-and-vertical-line-corruptions.aspx
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    Radeon 5xxx Owners Report Grey Screens/Hangs

    Got an Asus HD5850 in November. Non of these issues with both 9.11/9.12 catalyst. The card has been running stock, I have not enabled ATI overdrive either ... System is: Core2 Duo E6750 @ 3.2 4x1 GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 (800) Win 7 64bit Asus P5K Deluxe Seasonic MI500w PSU
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    Difference of 1440x900 gamiing compared to higher res?

    Thanks for this... was wondering why the option was greyed out. I had to use 1440x900 for it to work for me.
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    Difference of 1440x900 gamiing compared to higher res?

    Thanks for that. For some reason mine is greyed out, I'm sure I was able to enable it a few months ago.
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    Difference of 1440x900 gamiing compared to higher res?

    Where does one turn on GPU scaling in the newer Catalyst Control Center?
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    What Videocard will work with these specs?

    You will only be limited if you want to go SLI; your mboard should allow any vendor if you are only planning on running a single graphics card. Having said that, a HD5850/70 will be a nice upgrade if you going be gaming at 1920x1080 with with high AA/AF.
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    New Catalyst 9.12 - Performance boosts on 58XX Series

    I was holding off playing RE5 in the hopes it would be fixed. Both my 4870 and 5850 still have the issue running Cat 9.12. Oh well may as well play it without AA, still looks pretty good.
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    New Catalyst 9.12 - Performance boosts on 58XX Series

    I wonder if this has sorted the cut scene issue when AA is enabled running DX 10 mode.
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    5800 Series getting faster with new drivers

    Yeah that one has me too ...
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    Seagate7200.12 500GB error in HD Tune

    Interesting ... didn't realise PCE-E could impact the SATA controller. Will check it later today. In the mean time I've completed a complete run on SeaTools from Seagate and there were no problems detected...
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    Seagate7200.12 500GB error in HD Tune

    Thanks for the feedback. I added the hard drive yesterday; running along 2x250GB Barracuda's. I am currently overclocking... I will play with some settings and look for latest drivers, can't remember the last time I updated the MB drivers. System specs: Asus P5K Deluxe (P35 Chipset) 4GB...
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    Seagate7200.12 500GB error in HD Tune

    Hi all, Does anyone know what the codes in HDD Tune Health report mean? I'm particulary worried about the one that failed ... HD Tune: ST3500418AS Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (01) Raw Read Error Rate 112 100...
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    Assassin's Creed

    For some reason the game won't detect my XBox 360 wireless controller ... anyone experience something like this?
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    Windows 7 crashes.

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    How to enable Nvidia Phsyx on Ati cards in Batman:AA

    You'd think that from all the money Epic gets for this engine they would add native support for AA.
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    How to enable Nvidia Phsyx on Ati cards in Batman:AA

    Fallout 3 is not Unreal Engine 3 ... Although if I remember correctly Mass Effect had no options for AA in game?
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    Worth upgrading from an 8800GT right now?

    It rocked only because we were starved for any decent graphics cards at the time. In my mind the only card to offer good value before the 8800 GT was the Geforce TI 4200 series. I also thought the HD4850 was superb value. In any event you can of course wait for the next gen from nVidia, I...
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    ATi vs nVidia drivers...

    I believe that the biggest improvements come in the way of better CF support, particulary for the X2 cards.
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    GTX 295 or two ATI 4890's? or wait?

    The 5870x2 will likely be two 5870 GPUs on a single card. It would still be crossfired (internally between the GPUs') so you could expect similar scaling issues to using two 5870 cards in crossfire.
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    MSI 4890 Cyclone

    http://www.guru3d.com/article/...clone-soc-review-1ghz/ I like the idea of exhausting heat out the case but if I had a choice I would go for a quiet option.
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    Fan speed not increasing automatically?

    67C is not hot for a GPU at load. My guess is that it is defective.