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    Should Anand refuse to review 8800ULTRA?

    Of course they should review it if they get the chance. But if the card cost close to a $1000 and only get a minor performance boost it should be pointed out and the rating of the card should be lowered and maybe slapped with a "don't buy" recommendation. It will all depend on how the card...
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    CPU-Z Readings on E6300

    Still runs on the PCI bus. Should always be locked at 33mhz when you overclock.
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    Video Card Question

    Sounds like the card is reading the refreshrate info from the screen wrong and default to 70 hz. Don't know if it is fixable but it wouldn't hurt to ask ATI or the screen manufacturer, maybe there's a driver for the screen that will fix it. Might also be that there's a windows update that...
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    Small Blue dots on dark images? Vista, x1900xt, vx2025wm

    Could be just a driver thing. The next graphics driver (7.2) should be out some time coming week, try it and see if it fixes things. Can you post an image of the problem? Might help people come up with a solution. Maybe capture a short video with Fraps and upload it to Youtube.com?
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    how are these for GC's??

    If you want to be able to do some gaming on the latest games you should not get anything less than a ATI X1650XT or Nvidia 7600GT, more than 256mb not needed.
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    NF3 vista drivers NOT WORKING!!!

    Have no doubt they will work but do they need specific Vista drivers for the motherboard and are they out yet?
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    430W enough for x1950xt?

    Yes it should work unless you have a lot of extra stuff installed, like lot of harddrives, cd/dvd, case fans, lights and so on. You could use this PSU calculator to find out how many watts your computer will use. Make sure you have "Power Supply Utilization" set at 100% and your PSU should...
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    NF3 vista drivers NOT WORKING!!!

    I'm not totaly sure but someone mentioned there's no Vista compatible nforce 4 drivers out so it's likely there's no Vista compatible nforce 3 drivers either. Best bet is to check your motherboard maker or nvidia for Vista motherboard drivers. EDIT: just a thought, does Vista support AGP?
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    Perfect Gaming Rig Suddenly Gone Bad!

    Not quite Format the HDD, all partitions. Install Win XP Install Servicepack 2 Install Motherboard drivers and onboard sound drivers Install Graphic card drivers Install MW Install FRAPS In that order. Make sure onboard sound is enabled in BIOS and that you removed your soundblaster card.
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    Perfect Gaming Rig Suddenly Gone Bad!

    :Q Don't tell me you are stupid enough to think you can't get banned just because you are on a dynamic IP, doesn't work that way. For your problem, Format your harddrive and only install one windows either XP or Vista, not both. Then any service packs if needed, then motherboards drivers...
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    Vista vs XP ATI 7.1 driver

    Comparing 32bit with a 64bit Vista and a game with 64bit optimised code, 15% sounds possible. Think it is streaching it a bit too far though but somewhere between 10-15% should be doable.
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    x1950xt should I rma?

    Download ATI Tool here http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ Install and then run the program, click "Show 3D view" (button bottom left corner) and let it run for about 5 min. This will stress the card to about 100% and you will see what temperature your card run at. Without changing any fan...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    Running on BIOS 0910 right now, so far no problems at all, rock solid. Haven't tried any overclock though. Im using a Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality soundcard so I havent tried Soundmax yet but if you look at Anandtechs 965p chipset roundup they say it is fixed along with new drivers.
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    That's right, Windows XP 32bit will not use all of the 4Gb memory, think it was that it use about 3Gb, had something to do with memory-controller and PCIe lanes I belive. Windows XP 64bit has no such problems though.
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    Sub-par Oblivion performance with 1950XT

    Same here, no problems, games work great, some games are faster and some same as before but none are slower.
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    What are the best mainboards for SLI 2x8800GTS?

    As far as I have seen any 680i motherboard will do. The 650i should work just as good but I haven't seen anything about them yet. Biggest difference between them is that 680i use 2x16 PCIe lanes PCIe and 650i use 2x8 PCIe lanes in SLi.
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    x1950xt AGP (YES 1950xt AGP) Confirmed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Sounds like it's coming then and as it is Powercolor I'm not surprised, they have done things like this before.:thumbsup: As for CPU. I use the PCIe version and with my CPU (AMD64 3200+) overclocked to a 3800+ I'm still a bit CPU-bottlenecked.
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    Sub-par Oblivion performance with 1950XT

    Also in CCC, make sure you have V-sync set to either "always off" or "off unless application specifies"
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    Sub-par Oblivion performance with 1950XT

    To show FPS in Oblivion - press the key left of number 1 on your keyboard, this should bring up a cursor at the bottom left of the screen and hide your stats. Type in TDT and then press enter and the framerat should be in the top right corner. To hide the framerate again just enter TDT again...
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    what is "environment temperature" on my x1900xt

    That's the temp inside your case close too/on your card but not GPU,Memory or Power regulators.
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    Finally, LEDs coming to market.

    EDIT: please remove. Reply was already in thread.
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    Radeon X1950XT clocks lower than they should be

    That's because people is feckin lazy and don't know how to use the search.:|
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    I NEED VISTA DRIVERS FOR NVIDIA 8800GTX :!

    There is one driver, just released, but it's beta and ONLY for Windows Vista RTM build 6000 and higher. More info here: http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjM0MDYsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=
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    Getting XP drivers for OLD cards?? Anybody know where?

    You will find the drivers at ATI's site. http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html Just choose Win XP home/pro and next you choose Legacy (discontinued)
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    I NEED VISTA DRIVERS FOR NVIDIA 8800GTX :!

    Are you people for real?:Q Are you people really arguing about if Vista is out or not? When you can get it in stores, then it's out. That's the definition of released. For fecks sake, grow up people
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    Crossfire Question

    I'm not sure but I think the only motherboard where they got software crossfire to work was on a Asus P5W DH Deluxe I975X. From what I remember they only got about a 30% increase. Don't take this for certain, I might just as well remember wrong
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    What the.....

    It should be ok if it passes memtest but nothing is certain, my guess is the memory is ok though. Looks like you are looking at a format and windows reinstall then I'm afraid. Just a thought, have you added any new hardware or USB stuff lately, if so they may be what's causing your problem...
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    What happened to the Samsung 215tw?

    Odd, just checked four of our largest computer webshops in Sweden and all of them got several in stock.:confused:
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    What the.....

    That suggest it is your main memory (system ram) Try removing all memory sticks and re-seat them again. If that doesn't work remove all but one memorystick and see if the problem is still there. Then switch to another memory stick and test that one. Should let you find out which stick is bad...
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    Crossfire Question

    Yup, you need the X1900 Crossfire card.
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    What the.....

    Try to go back to driver 84.21 or 81.98. If those doesn't work you either got some maleware/spyware messing things up or Windows have got corrupted. Could also be motherboard or soundcard drivers but I doubt it. Next thing is hardware and heat, your graphics card, how hot and does the fan...
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    Maximum supported resolution X850XT?

    Card can do a resolution of 2560x1600 (maybe even higher) but you gonna have a hard time finding a game it can run fast enough at that resolution. Should be no problem with running your monitor but might not be fast enough for the games. Heck, even an old Geforce 2 could do a resolution...
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    Best value video card

    Another vote for X1950XT. Got one myself this christmas and been playing Oblivion for a while now. Card can handle everything, and I mean everything, on max with HDR at 1280x960 (maybe even higher) with 16x AF high quality and 4xAA. I still get slowdowns here and there but it is due to my...
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    X1900XT vs. X1950XT

    Hehe, card should be safe up to 130*C though. How about you set the fan to the speed it runs at at 88*C if you don't think it is to loud, should keep your card a bit cooler. The fan/heatsink is very effective really at 45% fan speed and higher, it gets loud very fast at those speeds though...
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    3DMark06 Score Seems Low

    That's about the score you will get unless you get a Core2Duo CPU. Sadly 3dMark-06 gives you bonus points for a fast CPU but if you compare the SM2/SM3 score you will see you are pretty much in the ballpark.
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    X1900XT vs. X1950XT

    Don't think the prices will chang more then maybe $10 until the new card are out and even then it might take a month or so. Looks like it's being pushed back until first half of Mars sadly.
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    X1900XT vs. X1950XT

    Download ATI tool (think version 0.26 is the latest) and you can set the fan speed manualy or to throttle at a different temp or speed.
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    X1900XT vs. X1950XT

    A little bit but you will get a big boost compared to the X800 GT. First of all you get true DirectX 9 compliance with Shader Model 3, makes things look much better. This card is powerfull enough to let you use the highest settings of AA and AF plus High quality AF and High detail AF. And...
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    X1900XT vs. X1950XT

    Enough to run the latest games on full detail and AA and AF on at 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 resolution or even higher. That is if the rest of your system is fast enough to use all the power of the card. On my system the CPU isn't fast enough to get everything out of this card.
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    X1900XT vs. X1950XT

    Yes it is worth the extra cash. Check out this review where they put it against the X1900XT, think it's the 512mb version. The HIS X1950XT comes a bit overclocked by 25 mhz on the core, running 650mhz core and 1800mhz memory, but the extra few mhz doesn't make much of a difference. HIS...