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Creative spills the beans on X-Fi faults "Apparently, all of those that exhibited the symptoms were high-spec gaming systems. Isolating them has taken a bit of time mostly because although they all seemed be based on NForce4 chipsets, they didn’t have much else in common."
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More of just kind of a log of my adventures with the new system. It will probably require a few posts on my part to start making sense.... Most know I have put a new system together. It appears it is still not quite 100% stable yet. here is a run down of the parts: Processor: AMD Athlon Opteron 170 Denmark Memory: 2x 1024MB Corsair DDR-550 Motherboard: DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR Hard Disk: 150G Western Digital Raptor 10,000RPM 16Meg cache, 400G Western Digital 7200rpm 16meg cache (not attached yet) Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon x1900XTX 512 Sound card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Power Supply: Antec TrueBlue 2.0 480w Optical: Plextor PX-716a CPU co…
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How Many Miles per Gallon Does Your CPU Get? "Sure, you could hold a thermometer to your CPU and run a billion calculations and divide one by the other, but AMD and Intel are going to start advertising these numbers, so they're going to have to figure out some industry standards."
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Power Color X1800 GTO: Cable-free Crossfire Explored "Power Color has sent us their X1800 GTO card which is specced identically to the Sapphire version, albeit with a different cooler. To add some meat to this article however, we will be testing both cards in Crossfire in a number of configurations to see how ATI's recently implemented cable-less Crossfire support fares."
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Its nice still getting used to it. not much documentation though. My games seem to run a lot better. Did a format and reinstall on Saturday.
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CPU-boundedness of the video system Part I - Analysis "To start with, we produce results in the game HALF-Life2 at 1024õ768 in the «maximum details» mode but with the antialiasing and anisotropic filtering disabled. There is contradiction here. The «maximum details» settings are in charge of the image quality, and the disabled AA/AF allow producing FPS values which do "rest against" the CPU performance. We depict the produced results on the graph, with the X axis denoting the CPU clock speed and the Y axis reflecting the produced values of the video card performance in FPS."
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PCI Express 225W/300W Graphics Card Electromechanical Specification Revision 0.3 Draft "PCI Express 225W/300W Graphics Card Electromechanical Specification Revision 0.3 Draft (1.10MB PDF): This specification is a PCI Express 225W/300W Card Electromechanical document that addresses graphics power and thermals greater than those supported by PCI Express CEM 1.1 and PCI Express 150W 1.0. Its purpose is to provide additional capabilities for PCI Express graphics within the existing framework of an evolutionary strategy that is based on existing motherboard form factors. This specification is primarily designed to deliver additional electrical power to a PCI Express gra…
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These are single drive tests... I love looking around WNYG LAN parties after I enter the next map and people are still staring at their loading screens...
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Machine Check exception Error when shutting down and in my games like titan quest and NHL 07. Not sure why?
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Hey all got my board back. I n fact they gave me a another 939 board same model. looks like bios is the latest also. got some new features I didn't see before.
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ABIT AT8 32X Socket 939 ATI CrossFire Radeon Xpress 3200 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail 110.00 or this one ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe Socket 939 ATI CrossFire Radeon Xpress 3200 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail 122.00
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ParoxyM, Is this what you have? Kill A Watt Electricty Load Meter
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