The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

Yeah, while overpriced, Dell is good stuff. I love my 2407WFP and I don't think it'll get replaced until it's useless

 

Been playing Rock Band 2 on it. It's awesome. Game configured itself for 15ms of lag, seems right, as the game plays fine.

 

Hi everybody, I'm trying to hook up my pc to my tv via hdmi. Recently, I was recommended to get a new graphics card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121259

and a new power supply, going from 300 to 500w:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371007

Now, the psu works fine but I still get no picture on my monitor when I install the card into the PCIe slot. I have tried contacted ASUS for support and so far have only been told, without even being able to fully explain the problem, to return the card. Is there suppose to be a place on the card for a cable from the psu to hook up? Any help is appreciated.

 

ok can you see a picture on your PC?

 

Using youe old graphics go into the BIOS and change the graphics types to use to be your new card.

 

My monitor is on but no picture, as soon as I take the card out adn reboot, it works fine, so I cant go into bios screen after installing the card. Should I have to go into bios the change the settings even if I only want to use the new card for my tv and not for my monitor? If so, is it going to work pre-installation of the new card?

 

You will need to change it before you install the new card.

 

Ok, that's my problem, thanks so much. Now, what exactly do I need to change?

 

Hey Sam, that first picture on your post with a bunch of pics of the two monitors side by side

this one: http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/5750/s5000583za3.jpg


- I'm taking it that the rosier picture on the left is the old monitor - the newer -HC is the monitor on the right with the more accurate colors, correct??

 

Nope, the one on the left is the newer 3008. The reason the colours look worse is because it's lowest brightness is brighter than the 3007's lowest, so the camera picture was a bit saturated.

 

before:










After:

 

Shaff thats hysterical (try resizing the pics at 800 wide). I thought to myself, "mess" "mess" "mess" where are the after pictures?

Now I get it - "after" means you tore all the boxes open and installed all your hot equipment!!

So did you crush sam yet - you'll need about 22,000 to do that! LOL

What kind of water are you running - how do you think it compares to that one that Russ was gonna get for $139 on the overclocking thread.

 

ill crush him when i get my radiator from RMA. thats why my main rig doesnt have watercooling. the rad had a puncture. the guy has fixed it. and i should get it by tuesday

cant wait to beat sams score.

and ill do it from within vista (if not ill install XP)

my w/c will thrash russ, btu mine cost int he region of £220

 

Good luck, you'll need to overclock your Graphics card to the maximum Catalyst will allow and get your CPU at 4.0Ghz plus to pull that off

(No, I didn't get my CPU to 4Ghz, but this is because Vista gets lower scores than XP due to its slower DirectX9 performance, so to get the same score as me, Shaffaaf has to push his system much further)

 

u just wait till i get a waterblock for my GPU on my bday

 

Wow that water sounds like a good system! Which one is it? Oh, you have all the specs over on the builder thread - got it!!

Hahahaha Vista fanboy!

You love Vista so much, but you won't beat Sam because . . . . . . .

Vista won't let you

MuWahahahaha!

 

It's funny because it's true, it took him an hour to even get 3dmark installed.... ouch!

 

adn yet vista> xp.

thats 3dmarks fault for being lazy developers along with creative!

 

Wow, I read about that Swiftech GTZ block - bjorn3d.com and a few others. Niiiiice!!! Really nice engineering. Copper microstructures - a little bit more restrictive but 15% better thermal transfer. They're using Delrin over the copper - some type of hard synthetic dupont material also used in ski bindings, etc. They had been using aluminum, but there are possible metal to metal corrosion problems with dissimilar metals in contact like that.

So, with your precious Vista you had a hard time even installing 3dmark6!!!!!!!

Muhahahahah - 3dmark's fault for being lazy! Hahahahaha!

No doubt you'll also have trouble installing XP,

WHICH YOU WILL NEED TO BEAT SAM!!!!

Muwahahahahah!!

 

Im trying to use my new graphics card only for my television and keep my existing monitor. I went into Bios screen but I couldnt figure out how and what to change to allow me to keep using my old graphics card for my monitor. Thanks for the help