Recent content by Forceman

I don't know why people expect to see reviews/preformance numbers on Tuesday. It's pretty clear it's going to be a product launch like Hawaii was (with few details and lots of marketing fluff), with reviews to follow in a few weeks. There have been no indication that review sites have cards...

Anyone else having trouble getting it to start? I haven't played in a while, waiting for my wheel, but I tried to play a couple times recently and have had no luck. It'll start, but it hangs at the Bandai games splash screen until I alt-tab. Then I can log in and select free practice, and a...

Mine does the same thing. I think it started when I switched to the 14.x drivers, so it may be that if you are running them. Sometimes I can wake my system up and the monitor light comes on but it stays black (and I can use Win key + L to lock and then unlock and it comes back) and other times...

If you haven't seen 780 Tis beating 290Xs in Firestrike, you haven't been looking very hard. The 780 Ti kills the 290X in graphics score especially. http://www.overclock.net/t/1406832/single-gpu-firestrike-top-30/0_30

I don't know. I heard somewhere it is PLL, but I've never seen it documented. But GDDR5 doesn't run at 1.0V, which is what my VDDCI is, so it's definitely not memory voltage.

You are assuming VDDCI is the memory voltage. Unwinder has said there is no memory voltage control on these cards.

In any case it's not true, because people have received week 40 chips that are unlockable. Also some Sapphire cards have started to show up unlockable. So it appears that it is actually getting more common, not less.

There have actually been a bunch of people who have done it - Powercolor cards specifically seem to have a very high success rate. Some XFX also, but not the other manufacturers. http://www.overclock.net/t/1443242/the-r9-290-290x-unlock-thread/0_30

The Vdroop is really bad on these cards, so 1.25V in GPU Tweak may be resulting in ~1.1V load voltages. Even with +100mv on my card (which should be 1.35V) it only actually runs at ~1.25V with the Vdroop. Increasing the core voltage seems to help memory overclocking as well, especially those...

I've had that also. First time it happened when Windows rebooted it installed some patch, so I thought that might be related, but then it happened again later.

Well, so far all we know is that it beats the 780 that much in handpicked circumstances. The leaked reviews from China had the cards more evenly matched.

The risk in waiting, though, is review sites including the 780 Ti in their 290X launch reviews. So if it beats the 780 across the board but ties or loses to the 780 Ti, it's going to come off worse than if the reviews had only had the 780 in them. Launch reviews carry a lot of weight even long...

AMD also throttles Furmark. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6915/amd-radeon-hd-7990-review-7990-gets-official/16

It originally came from the leaked slides that were posted a few days ago., "Under embargo until Oct 15th" or something to that effect.

He also said the North America pre-orders would be up on the 3rd, then the 4th. Still not up though. Notice he mentioned launch, not review NDA which is what the delay was about - when asked to clarify he never answered back.