Recent content by rincewind

Had a couple of kabooms under non-gaming usage within an hour of installing these on my 290 system. The third crash I could still move the mouse cursor around, but the system was unresponsive (couldn't even launch task manager with crl+shift+esc). Back on 14.4 again now.

Yeah they are that old, excluding the machines at work (which I'm not about to plug a 250w card into). Like I say, consoles and laptops. At the end of the day there's not a lot of point checking it in a different PC - it's a compatible system (broadly speaking, there are always anomalies) which...

Negative - that would be handy but I can't really plug it into any old PC, and everyone I know has either moved to consoles and/or laptops or simply has a very outdated rig. If it doesn't work in my Sandy Bridge then it's of no use to me anyway. I'll have to RMA - in the unlikely event it is...

Nah, literally just got the BIOS flashed using a stick I borrowed from work and it hasn't helped. Other than the fan spinning, the card is toast as far as I can tell - already tried more troubleshooting than most would bother to do, now it's going back.

My Asus 290 was DOA as far as I can tell. Fan spins but that's it, no POST. Been trying to update my mobo BIOS in case that's the issue but the damn thing refuses to boot from a USB stick (tried 2 sticks and a couple of flash cards in a USB reader, also different boot disk software) so just have...

Ah, yeah that's not ideal but it does seem a common issue with 290s in CrossFire. I'd been on the fence about 290 vs 780 but I figured the 780 is crappy at mining and the price difference is just about the cost of a waterblock. Hope I don't come to regret my decision! Curiously the only other...

Much obliged, I was just about to google that :) Had my hopes up, but when I checked they were both Single-link DVI-D. So it looks like I got a bum card :( It's more of a bummer because I still can't find the ref cooler for my 580, so I have basically sweated buckets downgrading to a 8800GTS...

I'd thought about going CF if mining works out, but I'd probably be cutting it close on a TX850? The CPU is relatively cool under air (Megahalems push-pull) so I could just WC the 290s, which my setup would easily handle. So is the problem mostly throttling, or are there quite a few games where...

Both monitors support DVI-D and came supplied with DVI cables (as well as a regular D-SUB) which I would assume are digital...but how would I tell, as I've honestly never heard of DVI-A or DVI-I ?

Both monitors are connected straight DVI-DVI - I haven't used a VGA connection since the CRT days.

Got my 290 from OcUK yesterday. Had to pull apart my WC loop in order to get it in with the stock cooling (don't have time to do a proper re-fit and leak test until the weekend, plus it pays to check it all works first) but it appears to be DOA. All spins up, no bleeping or anything untoward and...

Getting my Asus 290 and EK block on Monday - will be trying my luck on the unlock.

I'm afraid it doesn't work like that. The theoretical maximum transfer rate for data from the main system is limited by the PCI Express bus itself (16 GB/s for PCI-E 3.0 @ x16), and realistically is lower still due to other constraints clayton mentioned. Back in the old days ATi cards couldn't...

Never had an issue with simply installing new drivers from either camp. The one time I used DriverSweeper it hosed my system........avoid like the plague

The frequency discrepancy is perfectly normal - a BIOS or overclocking tool can request any clocks they want, but the clock-gens are fixed (something like 26-27 MHz for the core domain on a 260 if I recall correctly) and what is really happening is that the closest multiplier is selected. So...