Recent content by Hemi345

Because I can hear my wife over the game with my current headset.

MLAA reminds me of how Ubisoft added "Edge Smoothing" to Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter a few years ago because AA wasn't supported. It smoothed the entire image including the HUD. It really helped spot enemies from a distance but also made the compass, minimap, etc difficult to read at high...

Where the hell do they test these things that they didn't think "hey, this is kinda loud, maybe we should work on the fan speed curves"? In the back of a dump truck driving thru a nitro glycerine plant? :D

Installed a pair of sapphire 6850 on wednesday. Only had time to play BC2 to test it out. It's very smooth at 1920x1200 with all the details at the highest. Maxed the sliders in Overdrive without a problem. Fans normally run around 30% at idle and up to 45% underload. Temps are 50C at idle...

dammit, i was hoping the pair of sapphires I have coming in tonite would have that gal with the nice front court on them... :mad: ;) I guess i should be happy piscian18 isn't on the assembly line. :D

If one or both of my Sapphire cards coming this week have more shaders than intended, I'll be tickled pink. :cool: If this was an accident, I'd be a little worried that their quality control is a little lacking. "Oh you mean the 6850 we were testing/developing with isn't the same as the one...

This reminds me back in the day when motherboard companies would ship their product to be reviewed with the default FSB at 105mhz (or higher) even when it was set to 100mhz in the BIOS. All the samples that had the wrong shader count were either Sapphire or HIS, right? If you wanna get...

Ordered two Sapphire 6850 from Newegg last night... 50/50 chance at least one has 1120 shaders when they arrive? haha

:cool: I nailed the 6850 and was off +$10 on my 6870 predictions :cool: I'm in for two 6850s.

Yep, exactly. And if you look at the prices the 5770 is going for today, it only makes sense that the 6850 and 6870 would be priced similar to what I just posted above... anything higher and they're right back to the big gap they had with the 5000 series.

Will it make any of you feel better if they said Barts Pro $180 with performance >= 460 1GB Barts XT $250 with performance >= 470 Some of you folks need to quit looking at the model number put on these parts and just focus on price for performance when they're released tomorrow. As long as...

If they build in mouse and keyboard type controls for consoles, PC gaming will be dead to me. As it is, I still don't own a console because I can't stand the controls.

and discussing motherboards from the late '90s isn't? Good grief :rolleyes:

AMD produced a superior 286 and this pissed off Intel. Intel quietly built the 386 which AMD had limited knowledge of. Then Intel released it claiming the 286 wasn't worth anything anymore, this in turn pist off AMD because they felt they had an agreement with Intel to share designs (past the...

Read the book and I'm sure you'll be enlightened on how this actually went down. Intel had an agreement with AMD to share their designs in order to secure companies like IBM because IBM required more than a single source. When AMD was able to produce a much faster chip than Intel could produce...