Recent content by Pooky

What exactly do you mean by "it seems to be cut from the same cloth as a 5870" in regard to the 6950? A 6950 will give you more performance than that 5850 will. I upgraded from a 5850 to a 2GB 6950 ( the ASUS Eyefinity 6 w/ the triple slot cooler ) instead of adding another 5850 for Crossfire 5...

As previously stated, Crossfire is AMD's multi GPU tech and SLI is nVidia's multi GPU tech. They are not cross compatible ( well, technically they can be with a Lucid Hydra chipset ). If you buy one AMD card now, you can add another one ( of the same model ) in the future. If you buy an...

I have 2 3870s running in Crossfire and my Catalyst Crossfire tab claims it is CrossfireX, although it's not :I think true CrossfireX only works under Vista (and I have XP). According to ASUS's webby, the P5B supports Crossfire. The only possible issue is that the PCI-E lane setup might be...

Video cards run hot these days. I wouldn't be too worried with 56° idle and 66° load. Out of curiosity, where did you get your video card water block? I notice that it's an Aqua Computer one and AFAIK there are two different versions of that block with some pretty big differences...

I wanted this one, but ended up with the Habu instead (the DA was sold out pretty much everywhere). I'm going to pick one up and then switch back and forth between the two, even though they're already non-identical twins. The one thing keeping me from Razer's mice was that they lacked any sort...

The connector on the card is different than the one on most fans (either the 3 pin or 4 pin molex). You would need to wire the correct plug on the fan to plug it into the card directly. W/out doing that you would need to plug the fan into a motherboard header and use monitoring software (either...

That's not what he wants to know... He's concerned about the possibility of an overclock doing something to hurt the overall stability of the card.

The problems on the 7900GT cards were not only with overclocked cards. Some stock cards had them too. The problems that many of the cards were having has been fixed with the 7950 series. When I bought my 512mb 7900GT last August, it had Infineon chips instead of the Samsung ones that were on...

I think that was mentioned in an issue of Computer Gaming World (now Games for Windows) during a preview of DirectX 10. I remember reading a disclaimer that the Flight Sim X shot was only a concept image.

I picked it up on Friday and am really enjoying it, but I've got an annoying problem with artifacting whenever it rains. The rain drops turn into grey triangles and they form and shoot all over the place. The other issue is that it's too hard to tell when you're getting hit or are dying. I've...

This has been an issue for me too. I'd like to buy a 24" widescreen and get an R600 based card, but I play a lot of older 4:3 games. It sucks not being able to get the most out of the display because the drivers don't support something they should. Nvidia cards have no issues with scaling...

A faster chipset is better than extra/more memory. The 256mb (PCI-E) x1950 has the edge over a 512mb 7950GT, even at 1600 x 1200 where one would think the higher amount of memory would do much better. The 512mb 7950GT isn't all that much better than the 256mb 7950GT either. Here's Anand's...

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When I went from an AMD64 3700+ on an Abit NForce 4 Ultra to a Core 2 E6700 and an ASUS 975X chipset, I forgot to deauthorize iTunes on my boot drive (my Raptor) and decided to just boot Windows normally to see if it would let me in to make the change (or else I would have lost one of my 5...

2 years? The Core 2 has only been officially out since July of 2006, so that's hardly one full year yet. I upgraded from an AMD64 3700 (2.2Ghz w/1mb L2 cache) to an E6700 (2.67 Core 2 with 4,b shared L2) and the performance increase is pretty substantial in everything, but games. Most games...