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    P5Q Deluxe BIOS

    Does anyone know where in the BIOS might I find settings to change the FSBRAM ratio? I've found that mine is fixed like 4:5 and could not find it anywhere maybe the name of the settings are strangers to me... Thanks for your help in advance!
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    Colormax PCS+ 4870 1GB shines except...

    SSChevy2001, Is ATi Tool Tray an official tools provided by ATi? If yes and if it solves my problem I prefer not to use Riva Tuner afterall it is a third party tool. Hey zod96, thanks for the info, your readings are pretty much the same as mine actually. Folks, One more thing is that...
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    Colormax PCS+ 4870 1GB shines except...

    Have you heard anything about fixing a screen flickering issue< talking about the 9.1 release? 73c out of Crysis, it's really a crisis for my card, I don't want it to go over 70c, heard that temperature too high shortens the life time of the card!
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    Colormax PCS+ 4870 1GB shines except...

    Hey SSChevy2001, what sort of temperature you are getting when playign games, I see your card is overclocked.
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    Colormax PCS+ 4870 1GB shines except...

    I am stunned at the solid performance of this beast. put the 8.12 driver on, got some screen flickering issue at the beginning, resolved using Riva Tuner by manually overclocking to 780/928 bypassing CCC, now it is working admirably in 2D as well as 3D games. I must admit that I am stunned at...
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    Sapphire 4870 1GB stock cooler

    I want to know how do you tell whether the cooler is NOT the reference cooler when you buy a Sapphire 4870 1GB card? Is that the heatpipe? Thanks!
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    Which version of 4870 1GB to buy?

    What sort of temperature are you running after overclocked?
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    Which version of 4870 1GB to buy?

    Just at the beginning of the week, I was still considering both PowerColor and Sapphire. PowerColor is offering an overclocked version of the 4870 1GB DDR5 which is doing 780MHz/3.7GHz. Sapphire released her Toxic 4870 1GB the day before yesterday which is doing 780MHz/4.0GHz. Which one...
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    What brand names 4870 1GB available in the market

    Then I really don't wantthis double lifetime warranty!! The potential problematic issue is that you cant tell whether the card is 1st hand or second hand./
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    What brand names 4870 1GB available in the market

    Look here, Sapphire is late...HIS has released 1GB with heat pipes and overclocked version http://www.guru3d.com/article/...0-iceq4-turbo-review/1
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    What brand names 4870 1GB available in the market

    What is double lifetime? You only got 1 lifetime isn't it?
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    What brand names 4870 1GB available in the market

    XFX this week? Or next month? Are you sure?
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    What brand names 4870 1GB available in the market

    Which one should I buy?
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    What brand names 4870 1GB available in the market

    I only know about Sapphire HIS ICON Which else am I missing here?
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    GTX260 or Raedon 4870 1GB

    Thanks everyone for your invaluable replies. All of you have provided me with answers to a few other questions in my mind. Today I went down town to one of the retail shops and check out the cards. I saw Sapphire Toxic version which looks appealing. Those heat pipes looks cool and imagine...
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    GTX260 or Raedon 4870 1GB

    Thanks for your detailed reply. The information is truly useful. It's good to know Riva Tuner can do the job which I didn't know before. Your thread relates my mind to the different partners of ATi and nVidia. Aren't they all come from the reference design I mean the circuitry, not the heat...
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    GTX260 or Raedon 4870 1GB

    A silly question really, but I know they are sort of opposite number to each other. So in terms of performance, they might be the same or close to each other. But what about heat dissipation? Which one runs hotter? Also I read from a few other forums that people are having run time problems...
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    Windows Vista - What's the deal?

    I take it that installing Windows Vista on a PC will register that PC's CPU to Microsoft and if you want to reinstall the same licensed Vista after the CPU is upgraded, the installation won't do, is that true or that's just a rumour?
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    GPU or CPU

    It's very good analogy. And by this argument, we need a CPU which can handle 1023 tasks/sec and a GPU which can handle 4078 tasks/sec.
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    GPU or CPU

    Just for discussion sake, is it not true that, CPU is the first component to do all the calculations before it passes things down to the GPU then for rendering?
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    GPU or CPU

    Talking about Q6600 and E8500, the difference in clock speed and thus their performance, is it because Q6600's FSB being 1066MHz whereas E8500 being 1333MHz?
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    GPU or CPU

    I am not saying it is a problem specific to COD5, it's just a good example to illustrate my point here. What makes me difficult to understand is that both COD4 and COD5 are using the same graphics engine, but the frame rates I am getting from both games are different, given the same graphics...
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    4870 X2 and PSU demands

    I am looking for a PSU for building a rig with 4870 X2 as the primary display. Trouble I am getting is information from all fronts tell different things about the PSU Watts requirement for this card. Let's say, using ATi's official specification, 650W is the minimum requirement for the 2...
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    Core i7 vs Core 2 Duo 8600

    Point taken. But then which one is faster 8600 or i7? Budget is not a concern to me.
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    Core i7 vs Core 2 Duo 8600

    I notice both CPUs are pretty much at the same price point, it's such a difficult call. If you were me, which I would you get?
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    Okay gentelmen, Thanks for your input! Truly appreciate! Now that we have decided on the CPU E8500@4.2GHz(non-overclocked), I have a budget like $1,500 so for motherboard I will have an X48 chipset board for the HD 4870X2. Next tell me about the memory? DDR2 or DDR3? What timmings, which...
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    You learn something new every day don't you? Actually Company of Heroes is my favourite games. Glad to know also, concurrent processing are based on processes. I personally prefer no CPU swap over time. Let's say I have been using E8500 for 2 years and an advanced CPU came out. I think I will...
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    I guess you mean a Q6600. But I would think all this time, that a quad CPU will not be fully utilised because it depends on the application. It's up to the application to make use of the cores isn't it?
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    Hey I read this somewhere. It was a properties of nVidia card. But I find the same for ATi card too. Could you remind me of the theory behind one more time?
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    Now considering the 4870X2 is quite expensive in termsof $550 despite I can afford it, if I deploy P45 which as you said is 16x PCI-E would I lose any bandwidth to X48 and does PCI-E 1.1 matters much compared with PCI-E 2.0?
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    Gaming! Combat Flight Simulation (not MS Flight Simulator X) and FPS genre and RTS as well.
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    I thought so too. Since I am not overclocking, then even 166MHz difference is a difference. So E8500 is definitely a go. Now, why do I get a P45 or why I do get an X48? What are their differences?
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    Isn't it true that an E8500 is way faster than an E8400, without overclocking I mean. Having the CPU chosen, what is the best motherboard for E8500? What chipsets are the best for the CPU? I am going to deploy an ATi Raedon video card.
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    I am not a keen overclocker. If the CPU overclocks, let it be. I won't put together a systems spending precious time to research what RAM modules, what timmings, which motheroard, what chipset all those hectic activities to just squeeze a hundred or two MHz out of a GHz CPU. I just want to...
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    rgallant, I need it for gaming. My current righ is Pentium D which is starting to get behind on the fast track. Between E8500 and E8600, why would I choose E8600? What does that Stepping 0 means?
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    What CPU for a new high end system?

    I am planning to build a new system, my budget is around $1000 maybe a bit more. Why would I deploy a Q6600 rather than an E8500?
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    A stupid about about Dual Core

    We have Athlon64 x 2 and Intel Pentium D. We all know that the marketing slogan is "Dual Core". Question is: are there actually 2 cores inside the Athlon64 x 2 and Intel Pentium D CPUs? Are Athlon64 really a 64bits CPU or it is just an emulation?
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    Thermaltake Tai Chi Water Cooled Case

    Sorry about that Bateuer! The editor includes the ")" thus resulting into errors. Let me quote it again as follows: http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/cases/Tt_Tai-Chi/1033.html http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/cases/Tt_Tai-Chi/1039.html I don't know much about Swiftech H20-80...
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    PCI Slot voltage monitor?

    Thanks! So that repairer just lied to me. MY TV tuner card is the Leadtek WinFast TV2000XP Deluxe. Think Leadtek is not that good in TV card.
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    Thermaltake Tai Chi Water Cooled Case

    I am in the process of planning a MAJOR upgrade. A re-build of a brand new PC to be precise. All these years, I have managed several system build. I find Case is as important as any other components of the PC. I give myself 2 choices: ThermalTake Tai Chi with the Water Cooling sub-system...