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    Madness and thoughts while building a computer

    Sharing a narrative i did for college http://hubpages.com/hub/Xeonotrixs-Main-Frame its not perfect but working on it this weekend since i want to get a perfect score the professor told me to get the dream part out and that he did not understood the dream but if you read that carefully its...
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    Unigine DX11 benchmark

    1st Test Unigine Heaven Demo v1.0 FPS: 30.6 Scores: 771 Hardware Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Oct 22 2009 Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit CPU model: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor CPU flags: 3007MHz MMX+ 3DNow!+ SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4A HTT...
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    UPDATE: 5850 vs 5870 vs 4870 CF

    ok we don't have that much concrete info on fermi yet but on your topic tittle all i see is flame-Bait all over why? Cause: 1:no one can give you a Definitive answer yet without benchmarks from the Green Goblin Side and you will have a Flame war happening from both sides of the Looney-Fanboy...
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    How to Activate Hardware PhysX to play with an ATI Video Card

    Very well said :thumbsup: and even if nvidia does block these again someone will always hack it it will happen again, now maybe nvidia will block this again in future drivers but if things don't go well for them in the future they might change their stance in order to make some extra sales...
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    How to Activate Hardware PhysX to play with an ATI Video Card

    following you guys Posts educates me, keep at it that i 'm loving it , maybe will make a blog related to this later on i Love the Anandtech Forums.
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    How to Activate Hardware PhysX to play with an ATI Video Card

    you are right that's sad if nvidia did not block this that would mean increased sales for them even if i buy a cheap card for PhysX
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    How to Activate Hardware PhysX to play with an ATI Video Card

    so anyone with some results yet? Update this news is making headlines : http://tech.slashdot.org/story...en-ATI-Card-Is-Present how quick will nvidia respond to this?
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    How to Activate Hardware PhysX to play with an ATI Video Card

    thanks funny that nvidia blocked these and someone already bypassed their coding very happy gonna see where this leads might buy an nvidia card to use on my windows 7 drive.
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    why won't nvidia drop their prices?

    never matters to me i buy what is cheap and good so far ati for me not spending 500.00 dollars for a gpu
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    How to Activate Hardware PhysX to play with an ATI Video Card

    just spreading the news on this if it works please post info on it: Warnings: Proceed at your own risk. The patch used here is not an official patch from Nvidia but it works. It was written by GenL. It works great for me so far, but your results may vary. If you're willing to take the plunge...
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    if the 5850 clocks to performance of the 5870

    have my asus 5870 overclocked @ 925/1250 runs fine no problems so far
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    Lucid Hydra interviews with AMD, NVidia, and Lucid

    well the part i was surprised was this: Legit Reviews: Lastly, the last time a company tried to make a move in the GPU market it was AGEIA with PhysX. NVIDIA eventually purchased that company shortly after their products hit store shelves. Does NVIDIA have any interest in Lucid Logix? We...
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    My New Build!!!

    yea maybe gonna get a second set of ram , i already had a 4870 around from my old build so i decided to get another one instead and crossfire them, also i play on 1920x1080 i noticed that i barely get any performance hit on Age Of Conan with AA enabled i keep at 2x with everything else maxed...
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    My New Build!!!

    Thermaltake SpinQ Performance Series cooler with ultra-lightweight aluminum and six heatpipes CL-P0466 CPU Cooler - Retail 2009 CES Innovation Design and Engineering Award-------my pc fan when you look at my parts and you click on them they will direct you to were i got them from plus you...
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    My New Build!!!

    http://matrixspeech.blogspot.c...my-custom-made-pc.html thats my blog on my latest PC Build whats you guys opinion? hoping that my 2 4870s in crossfire will be enough for any gaming for 2 years at least oh and i can run age of conan in DX 10 it looks nice [beta server] also liking windows 7...
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    CPU temp

    my temp is currently 39c - 40c idle and 53c on load you guys think thats ok or should i reapply some artic silver 5 ? using Thermaltake SpinQ Performance Series cooler with ultra-lightweight aluminum and six heatpipes link of my fan http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835106123 ty...
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    CrossfireX performance

    ok i tested crysis warhead with crossfire enabled and disabled and the fps were basicaly the same between 23 fps and 32 fps not very happy should have kept only 1 4870 the settings were on gamer with resolution at 1920x1080
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    CrossfireX performance

    ty for your response i greatly apreciated i went to bios and i could not find anything to my understanding to enable a second card but when i look under device manager i see both cards and cat manager shows me crossfirex is enabled i also see the logo when i play my games but since you have the...
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    CrossfireX performance

    ok i have a new pc built with 2 4870 512s on crossfire these are my specs: Windows Vista 64Bit XCLIO A380BK Fully Black SECC 1.0mm thickness ATX Full Tower Computer Case ASUS M3A78-T AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready...
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    Overdrive Problems

    yes i have the latest bios that supports deneb http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=731 thats my mobo and this is my bios M3A78-T BIOS 0701 wich is enabled for deneb
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    Overdrive Problems

    i have a Asus M3A78-T this are my specs ASUS M3A78-T AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail XCLIO A380BK Fully Black High Gloss Finish SECC 1.0mm thickness ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail 1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3750330AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard...
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    My New amd Dragon Platform built

    1 Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM Item #: N82E16835100008 Consumable Items Return Policy $17.99 1 ASUS M3A78-T AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail Item #: N82E16813131331 Limited 30-Day Return Policy $149.99 1 XCLIO A380BK Fully Black High Gloss...
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    My New Build

    hey thanks for your help gonna repost there then mods can you please lock this this one please?
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    My New Build

    1 Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM Item #: N82E16835100008 Consumable Items Return Policy $17.99 1 ASUS M3A78-T AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail Item #: N82E16813131331 Limited 30-Day Return Policy $149.99 1 XCLIO A380BK Fully Black High Gloss Finish...
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    Flashed my sapphire 4870

    yes you can but i flashed the card before i noticed that but also keep in mind that the oc to 990 is also visible with CCC if you are playing with atitray tools everything is done from there oh well i'm still gonna keep these new bios but yea you can do the overclocking with the atitray tools only.
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    Flashed my sapphire 4870

    highest is 990 gpu clock -1200 mhz memory clock i have it set to 825/ 1120 very stable indeed, its basically the bios from the diamond black edition i had to copy the string bios number from the sapphire original bios in order to get the flash going i did that with RBE 1.12 and you can go higher...
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    Flashed my sapphire 4870

    i was looking for a topic related to the bios but i did not find it i flashed my 4870 with the Diamond_HD_4870_XOC_Black_Edition.bin i used RBE 1.12 to change the bios string version to the same as the original bios from sapphire and after that everything worked like a charm now i can oc it to...
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    4870X2 vs GTX280 Poll

    my last nvidia cards were the 7800 and the 7950 after that i went to the red team with the 3870 , now i got the 4870 which is leaving a bad experience at the moment if none of these problems are fixed i might jump back to the green team if the prices are right i don't feel like spending 600.00...
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    4870 Problems!!

    what bothers me the most is that all the rest of the games run fine without any issues and gow is the only one i did some research trough google and i noticed that gears of war was benched for reviewing the card in some forums the system is pretty much stable if i don't run that game gonna do...
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    4870 Problems!!

    i'm using the the adapter included with my 4870 my monitor is connected trough the vga not using the beta yet currently testing with the hotfix for the 4870 internet is kind of up and down will download those beta drivers when i get a chance i disabled one of my dvd drives and i noticed that...
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    4870 Problems!!

    its an antec truepower 2.0 btw link to product page- http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=22550
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    4870 Problems!!

    hi all i was testing my 4870 with games like crysis, Grid, mass effect, Dirt all these games worked perfectly please keep in mind that i played these games without no disc inserted , then when i put the disc for gears of war and start the game after maybe 5 minutes of playtime or so my screen...