B.Ob. Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Well, as long as you put this on your chip, we won't care about about your crossfire configuration Wow, thats neat!!! Hmmm, four heat pipes and passive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Well, as long as you put this on your chip, we won't care about about your crossfire configuration That will go great with the case you brought to the last LAN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 /palm on face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Run away thread, Burahhhahhahhehhan, I really do think that pic is of ParoxysM, looks just like him. Damn this is not "The Art of Flaming" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 My glasses arent that big... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 (edited) I think I need a new sound card... My intel D975XBX2 mother board has onboard sound that long story short sucks donkey balls. I have been getting this problem where I am playing nearly any game for about 30 min to an hour and the screen freezes and I get caught in a sound loop. The only escape is the reset button... So I disable the onboard sound and stick in my old old old Creative PCI 128 soundcard and the sound quality and volume greatly improve instantly.... Even on vent my guild was saying "woa turn that thing down" but yeah loud and clear. This reduced the frequency to me getting this freezing sound loop issue to about once an hour now while playing a game. This even changed how it sounds when the loop happens.... NOW.... at 3.2ghz I can run prime95 till the cows come home and Orthos as well, memtest gets pretty boaring after 18 hours. This doesn't happen though when I don't overclock and leave my speed at stock 2.4ghz. Seems like if I go over 2.4ghz then eventually I get the freeze up w/ sound loop while gaming after an hour or so. I even started adjusting my PCI Latency timer from 32 to 64 to 96 and they all seem the same... 128 got me artifacts after 20 minutes of gaming. (x1950 Pro 512meg PCIe) Any ideas? Edited September 19, 2007 by DaPoets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Hmmm, only happens when you overclock and happens one two different sound devices (since one is not a card). Are you sure your not OC'n something you don't need to? FBS on the CPU, cpu fsb to mem bus divider (if necessary) and cpu voltage are usually the only things you need to touch to OC. Might try some make-shift shielding around the sound part (if you can and ASSUMING temps allow) as maybe EMI is leaking into it. I assume you put the sound card as far away from the cpu as possible. Putting "sound problem on D975XBX2" into google brings a LOT of hits.... Wonder if there was a BIOS update to fix that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 BIOS Update 2792 [bX97520J.86A] (890KB) 2792 9/6/2007 Hmmm, nothing jumps out at me in the few newest revisions.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Yeah I installed that bios a few days ago and didn't see any performance difference.... I think I will write intel a nice email w/ my system specs and issue... perhaps it's common enough for them to add a fix in the next bios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Intel never used to support anyone over clocking.... so might not want to mention that in your email. If you mention its fine at stock speeds, they might say, oh well, sorry, not supported. Sure does sounds like an EMI/shielding issue thou. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 (edited) OK!!! WHOOO HOOO I ended up buy this today http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov....92&view=yes and I got it for only $139 online from newegg as an open box. It's normally $199 and so I used the savings to buy another 2 gigs of ram to bring me up to 4gigs. I'm tired of playing BF2 and looking at my system having only 90megs - 300megs free depending on what I'm doing... So Crossfire in 3 business days!!! Edited October 15, 2007 by DaPoets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 I decided to submit trouble tickets w/ both Sapphire and HIS-tech about the crossfire issue I am having so let's see what they come up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Hope they have a resolution for you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 (edited) I just bought another one of these for only $124 http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov....95&view=yes but this one is only 256megs... I figure since this is a nice deal I'll go with it, plus it exhausts the hot air out of the case which is what I need. The sapphire x1950pro blows hot air into my case and I'm hoping that the sapphire one is the card giving me issues and not the HIS Digital. I do also have 4 gigs ram so having 2 cards at 512megs each was dropping my usable system ram down to 3.1gigs, this will bring it up some. Since I am working w/ older tech anyway on the video card side, I will probably try to buy x2 2900XT's when the price drops this winter or a lucky open box if I can find them. Edited October 15, 2007 by DaPoets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I just bought another one of these for only $124 http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov....95&view=yes but this one is only 256megs... I figure since this is a nice deal I'll go with it, plus it exhausts the hot air out of the case which is what I need. The sapphire x1950pro blows hot air into my case and I'm hoping that the sapphire one is the card giving me issues and not the HIS Digital. I do also have 4 gigs ram so having 2 cards at 512megs each was dropping my usable system ram down to 3.1gigs, this will bring it up some. Since I am working w/ older tech anyway on the video card side, I will probably try to buy x2 2900XT's when the price drops this winter or a lucky open box if I can find them. Hope that does it for you!! Oh, probably want to make sure you power supply is up to the task before getting two 2900Xt's as I know PurSuiT was pulling more power when he got his single 2900Xt versus his dual 1950PRO's!!! Also, each 2900Xt requires 2 6pin pci-e power connectors (but would prefer a single 6 and 8pin connectors) That said, the 2950XT and XTX's are suppose to be out in 4 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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