The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

Eh I'm responsible with my guns. They're all legitimately purchased and follow all regulations for civilian firearms. I just like to have them around for fun. And for zombies

 

In town?? In your backyard?? Not sure if I should be scared or jealous lol.

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BFG owners might be interested in this rma/upgrade offer from pny. I have no idea how good it really is but you can check it out here if you're interested - http://www3.pny.com/support/support_landing_cat.aspx?SectionID=1179

 

Well, that's not really that great. It seems like PNY are doing this off their own backs rather than with any support from BFG. It's only a 20% off voucher for a new card, and it's only for two months. It surprises me BFG have withdrawn warranty support, presumably their financers have decided to bankrupt that part of the company...

 

If my card quits soon, that'll just prove the kind of luck I have LOL! At least I have a rainy day fund, and my 8600Gt as backup

 

If it's any consolation I need to run a close inspection of my 4870X2. The fan isn't putting out anywhere near as much air as it should but the fan area is fine, so the HS may be blocked. It's running at 107ºC at 5900rpm (118%), not right with case fans at max and the A/C on :S
Still, poor thing was still running at that speed, just screen started flickering a little bit

 

Oh damn! Get that checked out

 

you may need to bypass the heat sensor using RBE to edit the bios. my old HD3870 fan stopped entirely until i set it up to use stepping instead of auto.

 

Oh no, trust me the fan is at 100% speed, I checked

 

then it might just be Dust Bunnies, have you attempted disassembly.

 

Damn those bunnies!

 

Dust is what I'm thinking, haven't had the card out for a fair while [Early June to be precise], and I didn't dust inside it then, just the outside, have never dusted the inside.

 

i have dust filter over my fan ports helps keep the case clean. i do a full disassembly every year to clean parts, regoop and reseat.

 

I'm shocked Sam! I dust my video cards every month or so.

 

I don't...

In fact, It's only been blown out once since I bought it I'm rather lazy about cleanliness. You'd probably be appalled :S Sometimes, it'll get bad enough, and I'll do something about it. If I have a major reconfigure, e.g. multiple items going in, or out, I'll generally blow it out. This area gets rather dusty.

 

I can't stand anything not running at 100% effectiveness. And dust in the sinks = not 100%. Same when gaming, fewest open processes as possible even if they're passive or low resource. Perfect operation is important otherwise I might as well have stayed with my dual core and single card. No point having all this fast hardware if it can't be 100% at all times. I take running my games seriously.

 

I totally hear you though jeff. I really do LOL!

 

I dusted the cards fully on the outside when I was experimenting with the 5970s in June, but I don't really see how to go about dusting the inside.
I leave chrome with dozens of tabs open while I play games. As far as I'm concerned, quad core CPU was a waste if I still have to squeeze every last drop of performance out of the system to play games smoothly - I don't, that's what it's there for, to multitask.

 

http://www.octeamdenmark.com/forums/extreme-mods/2774-ati-4870x2-full-vmod-cooler-guide.html

nobody said it was going to be easy.

 

Hah, no thanks. I'm not going that far just yet

 

Nice stuff, Sam - On all the gaming fps (thanks for the 2560 res also) you include the 5970, but in these energy figures above you don't. I'm wondering if you have the 5970 energy consumption figures - and I assume we would be talking 2 gig 5970.

(I am getting MORE than a little interested since I DID GET MILES' 9450 RIG, AND IT WORKS!!!)

Happy belated October 12th birthday, DDP. I'm sure your mom considers that a fine thanksgiving gift, and as for me, I take back almost everything bad I've ever said about you!

More seriously, now you won't have to threaten to ban me to get me to upgrade from the P4, and maybe finally shaff will stop picking on me - (I feel like I'm in the headmaster's office when he reminds me it's been 3 years and I still have the p4) - the Q9450 asus P5E mobo with 4 gig ram machine from miles seems to have turned out merely to have some strange hard drive issues - and perhaps a bad sata controller. My good luck, bad luck for his gaming company (we all know who that is, right?)

On the mobo I see two crossfire slots, however according to cpuz it has only 16 lanes of pci-e total.

I ran 10 iterations of LinX (similar to Intel burn test) without any errors in 10 minutes - so to this point it appears that mobo/cpu/memory are working okay - that's not a full night test, but so far so good.


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Wow estuansis - nice picture with Kyle! A 75 round drum for your ak, and a 120 round drum for your buddy with the ar-15 - amazing! Have the two of you ever done a side by side distance accuracy test - say at full prone - to see if it is true what they say about respective accuracy of the two weapons?

Oh, man, DXR is a single-shot weapon guy! The Garand is "the gun that won World War II" - wasn't it 8 shots without having to slip in another set of 8, versus the nazis with a manual bolt action for every bullet? There are several WWII shooters that feature the Garand, and I love that rifle!

Bambi hates Jeff!

Kevin, small town Oregon - who wudda thought - for some reason, I was thinking someplace more urban. Well, maybe that's why you like Grand Theft Auto IV so much featuring that big slice of Manhattan!

I have to side with Jeff 100% on every word you just said - I too shut down ALL processes - and no "open chrome" for me! - sam, how could you

On my vent-modded p4, (my little practice case) every intake has a filter, and positive internal case pressure at all times means dust does not want to come in anywhere, not even in any small usb port!

THAT discussion takes me back to the rig I just got from Miles. I will probably have to move everything out of the tiny midtower case the Q9450 is in, which has only one back 120mm fan. I can't even add a kama bay front intake, since there are only three 5.25 slots, not four. And since Miles isn't sure whether he has to give the thing back one day, no drilling or hack-sawing on that little Antec!

The good news is that I still have that new full tower case sitting in its box in the garage, so after a little bit more testing, and then a couple runs of 3dmark6, I'll start moving everything over to the Spedo. I'm guessing 10,000 plus on the 3dmark with the 8800 - I'll keep everybody posted when I find all the mobo and nvidia drivers.

Rich