Recent content by EscaroN

Edge detect is more taxing than box AA in shader intensive games, which I'm going to assume Far Cry 2 is one of. This means that if you turn Edge off and just have Box you're probably going to see an increase in performance, better frames, and therefore less stuttering, regardless of what's...

I've had the exact same thing happen to me, about an hour into gameplay the game just crashes to desktop without warning. I'm also running Cat 8.10 with Hotfix and the 4870x2, Vista 64bit. Got my game from Steam, I haven't tried reinstalling it yet The weird thing is that there's not slowdown or...

I have the same powersupply and same video card, I'm running hard wired cables only for my whole system. I believe if you read your instruction manual it says to use hard wired cables for one video card and modular for a separate if you're running Xfire of SLI and not to mix and match hard wired...

You have to unlock ATI Overdrive and uncheck the enable ATI Overdrive box in CCC. This lets the card downclock itself at idle because I guess with 8.9 that box is not unchecked by default.

The thing is, this is an issue with my board, any revision before 1.03. Even with the newest beta bios 2801, it still won't let you lower the vcore past 1.45v for any of the newer E8xxx or Q9xxx processors. If you look on Asus's website though, they say that starting from BIOS 2504 my...

I'm having an issue that has been mentioned a few times about some revisions of the Asus P5W DH not letting you change the vcore below 1.45v in BIOS with the newer E8xxx processors. I've got everything running fine at stock, ie. 333FSB which gives me my 3Ghz, however, I have the voltage set to...

I'm using the 8.8 Betas that came with the card.

I created a custom profile through CCC for my desktop when I'm not running any games and set my fan to Manual with percentage of 35, this seems to get my idle temps down to ~55C which I'm perfectly fine with. I would like to create another profile though, for when I do want to play games and...

I just bought a Visiontek 4870x2 today and it did not come with the 6 to 8 pin PCI-E converter like some other cards, just two Molex to 6 pin PCI-E converters. Unless your package is different, you'll probably need to pick up a converter separately, I'd imagine your local computer shop should...

Thnx for your help zero. I'll stick with my current PSU, I can always upgrade to a new one if I see instability issues. I forgot to mention that I have an X-fi soundcard but I don't think those draw much power, I also don't think the power calculator is totally correct because in the 4870x2...

I had considered getting two 4850's in crossfire but some people said that with my current motherboard, Asus P5W DH Deluxe, I wouldn't be getting the full benefit of crossfire in my system because my board only supports dual 8x on the PCI-E ports when it's in crossfire and not dual 16x like the...

Thnx for the help, that's actually the Stealth PSU, mine's the Gamer, but the review says they seem to be identical in their build (except for the 12v rails), at least as far as I can tell. I used the power calculator tool and it recommended that with my current system and a 4870 crossfire...

1) How much of a bottleneck would I be looking at with my E6600 at 3ghz if I was to upgrade to the 4870X2. Do you think it would be worth it to pick up an E8400 for about $180 and OC that to 3.6Ghz or so? 2) If I do pickup an E8400 would I be able to use my current heatsink (Zalman 9500)...

How would CF with either of the above two cards run on my motherboard? I've read a couple threads and people were saying that I will not be getting the full benefit of the cards due to bandwidth limitations with my motherboard. I don't particularly want to get a new motherboard until I do a...

I should have mentioned, my motherboard is the Asus P5W DH Dlx, it uses the ICH7R South Bridge, so I don't think that's the problem. But I will give that jumper suggestion a go, I haven't changed anything on my HD so if the jumper is SATA 150 by default then that's what's likely causing it. Do...