I am struggling to understand what is going on with my new CAD workstation. I am trying to tweak it for optimal performance, so the first thing I did was disable the pagefile in order to try and force everything to RAM (it has 12GB). Before doing this I was using 6-8GB in the pagefile, and less...
I'm sure someone has said it but that is not the case with me. I am using Gainward's Expertool to overclock. I have the 2D underclocked with it and 3D overclocked. I verfied that this works with Rivatuner. When I exit a game back to windows the clock speed drops instantly..
My core is clocked to 650 but I have not OCed the memory yet. It's only OCed during 3d and underclocked in 2D mode. Max temps I've seen after heavy gaming is low 70s.
I tried to on my 6800GT and it kept crashing in games... It needs a fan if you plan on gaming at all.
I do have a question though. I now have a 8800GTS and wanted to know how I could reused the memory heatsinks from this? Can I get thermal compound tape like what comes on the heatsinks already?
I had the same issue happen to me. The first time the song and dance routine worked, but later it happened again and the power cycling didnt help. I burned the .iso of the DVI_Recover utility and booted from it with both VGA and DVI connected. I did not actually run the tool. Once it got to the...