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    Crysis 3 Single Player is here...visuals are epic

    This is gonna rape my poor rig so bad. Time for a CPU upgrade and to overclock the crap out of my 7850. And more RAM. Sh*t.
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    Radeon HD7850 owner's thread

    I bought a Sapphire 2GB 7850 a week ago, replaced a 4670 in my extremely budget-friendly rig. Overclocked it from 860/1200 to 1050/1350 without a sweat. Doesn't really show in anything but benchmarks so I'm keeping it stock ATM. Absolutely love this card, it's very very fast and quieter than I...
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    Best overclocking stress test program?

    Furmark can be dangerous if you're dumb enough to do a Torture Test (or whatever it was called, Burn or Xtreme or something I think it was) with untested GPU and memory speeds on your video card. Common sense. If you know you're pushing hard, downclock a bit and then run the test. And if...
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    Got a Thermaltake Pure Power, 600 watts I think my friend. I've had it for around 4 years, never had much of a hungry system so I imagine all the capacitors inside are doing fine. EDIT: It's this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153042
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    Thanks for your input BTW dudes and dudettes on what CPU I should buy, but it's not gonna happen soon anyway... I have other priorities and keep in mind I was doing fine with a 939 rig 4 months ago! If it hadn't imploded I'd still be using it probably.
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    I thought this board is supposed to support just about all 1155 chips out there? Am I wrong? Haven't read much lately, I thought I was OK.
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    Yup, I can definitely notice my CPU runs out of juice in Deus Ex and other games, even with AA cranked and everything. I bought this chip because I had to, I was short on cash and my old 939 rig went belly up so I needed a computer ASAP. I'll try and buy an i7 once the prices come down a bit...
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    Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

    I bought a 2 GB Sapphire Radeon 7850 a few days ago, replacing an ancient Radeon 4670 512MB . Easily the biggest performance jump I've ever experienced in a computer! I'm not that much of a gamer, but I went from a 1680x1050 to a 1920x1200 monitor and that was the nail on the coffin, even...
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    What clock would an 8800GTX need to be at to match GTX680?

    The 8800GTX was an absolute monster. I had one for a while in a AMD X2 2.6 Ghz and Crysis was amazing on it.
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    Why should I prefer a 7770 over a 6870?

    Just noticed the 7850 is only 25% more expensive than the 6870, while potentially around 50% faster (with overclock) Screw CPU bottlenecking. 7850 it is! I'm excited, first time I'm ever buying a powerful card.
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    Why should I prefer a 7770 over a 6870?

    The 7870 is also twice the price, man... Too much for me. The 7850 I could pay, but it's not much faster than the 6870 I think? Though it seems it's an overclocking beast so maybe I could convince myself with that.
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    Why should I prefer a 7770 over a 6870?

    I think it should be OK with this processor by now- I just bought my mobo/cpu/memory two weeks ago and I'm so ridiculously GPU limited it's not funny. I definitely need a stronger GPU, the 4670 was OK in 2008 and I don't wanna spend much. If the Pentium falls short then I'll sell it and buy an...
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    Why should I prefer a 7770 over a 6870?

    I have a decent PSU and I want to make this rig as fast as possible for gaming without spending too much. I'll be playing at 1920x1080. I've seen some benchmarks and the 6870 seems to wipe the floor with the 7770... and they're almost the same price here. I'll also buy another 4 GB stick...
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    "Coil Whine" from my video card is so intense, it comes through my headphones

    Hey man, I recently had a situation similar to yours, got lots of coil whine from my computer. It got the loudest AFTER closing anything that was graphic intensive, and it could last for 20 minutes. Voltage readings were odd sometimes too, very fluctuating. I had a solid PSU (Thermaltake...
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    Stock cooler on Intel Pentium

    BTW, I'm using like I said a Hyper 212 Evo with my G630 and with the fan at 600 RPM the chip idles at 24°C and after 5 minutes of Orthos it reaches 36°C, while dead quiet. Lovely numbers! So definitely for acoustic reasons it's a good choice, I'm amazed by how cool this chip runs.
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    Stock cooler on Intel Pentium

    I've read the Pentium fan gets worn pretty quickly and gets noisy and clanky. Is it true? I replaced mine inmediately with a Hyper212 Evo because I hate noise, but I'd like to know anyway.
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    New PC build performs ridiculously slow. What's going on?

    Welcome! On a sidenote, it's ridiculous how utterly GPU bottlenecked I am right now! I still managed to install a couple of games, and thought that upgrading such an old CPU would give me a nice boost in games... HA! Crysis 2 performs exactly the same in casual settings at 1680x1050, the FPS...
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    New PC build performs ridiculously slow. What's going on?

    It's out of warranty actually, bought it a few years ago. Did the tests with the WD propietary software and both the quick and extended SMART tests failed... too many bad sectors it says. I just bought a 1TB Caviar Green, we'll see how it goes. What a shame. I've seen the performance is all...
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    What's so great about Deus Ex?

    I loved Deus Ex back then. The story's incredibly compelling and absorbing. It hasn't aged very well and some things weren't that good even back then (like shooting dynamics and the voice acting) but it was a great experience. Human Revolution is IMO a worthy successor in every aspect (I know...
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    New PC build performs ridiculously slow. What's going on?

    I think it's the hard drive dying actually, for a few reasons: 1. Windows loads really, really quick. Everything in the C partition works super fast and it's actually great. Loading several programs at once it's extremely responsive. All from the C partition. Indexing is disabled and updates...
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    New PC build performs ridiculously slow. What's going on?

    I went from a Socket 939 X2 2.4 Ghz rig with DDR1 memory to what's on my signature now. Not much of an enthusiast by these days. I formatted, installed Windows 7, updated everything to the latest, and it's insanely slow. MP3 files take more than 20 seconds to open, any sort of quick viewing...
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    How to make Win7 erase and redetect all hardware?

    What I'm trying to do is make Win7 have to check all the hardware again, like Win7 is just being installed, so wiping away ALL the updated or third party drivers is a must. If you're wondering why, here it is: I use a 3G dongle in my netbook and the installed files became corrupt due to...
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    Insanely slow write speed on SD cards/USB pendrives in Win XP.

    It's not a matter of improvement, man. It's faulty, that's what it is. I think the write speed rate is actually slower than a 3.5" floppy disk for small files. That's not just XP being old. It's something going wrong inside. Guess I'll vLite the crap out of Win7 and put it back.
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    Insanely slow write speed on SD cards/USB pendrives in Win XP.

    Hey guys, I've got a first-gen Acer Aspire One netbook loaded with Win XP. 8 GB SSD drive on it. I used to have Win 7 but the drive's just too small. Shame because it worked very smoothly, better than XP in fact. Anyway, I have a 16 GB SDHC Class 10 card and a 2 GB SD card as extra...
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    Got a Phenom rig for "free"!

    My advice would actually be: "Don't fix guitars for a living in a tiny third world country where manual labor is horribly underpaid". I'm a journalist too. Don't worry, the income's more than fine. :) Upgrading my desktop is just way down on my priority list.
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    Got a Phenom rig for "free"!

    I'd love to, but I'd rather pass it to my mother, she's still using a Pentium III! That's just cruelty. I've seen impressive prices on used 939 chips / DDR sticks in the USA, but I'm from Chile and for some reason they ain't worth **** in the used market here.
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    Got a Phenom rig for "free"!

    Thanks man. No worries, I'll probably get a 955 or something. That's gonna be in a while though. I will, however, max the RAM ASAP, before the DDR2 prices get inflated. And regarding video, well I'm a sucker for some nice AA so I'll always find a way to make use of video card horsepower... I...
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    Got a Phenom rig for "free"!

    Hell yeah. Take it up to 8 GB, slap a X4 965 on it, a nice overclock and I'll be set for quite a few years. :) I'll keep the 9950 for a while though. I know they've got the worst possible reputation, but I think it'll be enough for me, and I'll probably even buy a faster video card first.
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    PC Exclusive FPS! No, it isn't April fools

    Some of you guys are weird. A new studio, a PC exclusive shooter focused on it's single player experience, and you think that if it has DX11 or not is actually important? You guys shouldn't give a pig's ass about that kind of stuff. There's Futuremark and other benchmark tools for visuals. I...
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    Got a Phenom rig for "free"!

    My current rig is a: AMD X2 939, 2.4 Ghz 3 GB DDR400 DFI Infinity NF4 Radeon 4670 And while it's slow, it does what I need nicely. Sort of. It can play games with decent-ish graphics at 1680x1050, even some newer ones. Now, I fix and setup guitars for a living. And I recently did a big job...
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    The great dual vs quad vs hex gaming benchmarkapalooza

    What an impressive piece of work man! Don't mind the negativity. Gotta be jealous of your hardware or something. Not that I'm not jealous :D but you know what I mean!
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    Have hard drives improved over the years?

    Re-read it. You're right. He described overall a moderate increase in performance. Which I still think it's odd to be honest. In this rig I used to have a 40 GB IDE HD too. Then I had a 320 GB Seagate 7200-9, which died. Then my 500 GB Blue Caviar. And now my 1 TB Black Caviar. Every single...
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    Have hard drives improved over the years?

    I recently went from a old 500 GB Blue Caviar to a new 1TB Black Caviar and noticed a big difference in overall performance, with a SATA 1.5 motherboard. No more than 2 years of difference in production between both, yet there's an evident difference. Both have been used as boot drives and the...
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    Why is Newegg still stocking Pentium Ds?

    Whoever finds the oldest piece of hardware in stock on Newegg wins I guess? :D
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    Best budget CPU for gaming nowadays?

    Because that's all this POS chip can take without turning into a f***ing oven. It's a 3800 so stock it's 2 Ghz. I can take it to 2.6 Ghz but there it starts getting real hot, and I don't really wanna stress the chip and the caps on this old motherboard. Even more so since 939 chips have really...
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    Crysis 2 DX11 Ultra package!

    I hate y'all. :D
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    Best budget CPU for gaming nowadays?

    A 540. I should point out that I don't really care if the i3 is a bit slower than the PII X4, as long as it offers a better upgrade down the road. So if you guys don't mind I'll do a different question, because I realized that what I actually care about is this: Right now, which would be the...
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    Best budget CPU for gaming nowadays?

    :) I play at 1680x1050. Details, AA and whatnot, as high as I can manage. I like eye candy. Yeah, I'd buy a new GPU eventually, I know. I'm just planning at this point. And yeah, the X4 would kill the i3 at certain games, but the i7 I'd eventually buy would drop the X4 pants and laugh at...
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    Best budget CPU for gaming nowadays?

    Uh, a 540 I guess? I always overclock a tiny bit though. The thing is, I don't really like to swap systems too often. In fact, I've only had three base rigs in my entire LIFE. A 486, a Celeron which became a PIII, and a Athlon 64 which became this Athlon X2. And the Phenom X4/X6 can't compete...