Recent content by Brian48

I still have my HD 4890 on the shelf. At the time, it was one of the best investments I ever made. Didn't realize it's been that long.

Just to report back. Build was about as drama free as you can hope for. There were some annoying issues with the MB BIOS, but once I had everything setup, things were fine. Obviously, performance is amazing. The free Jedi Survivor and Resident Evil 4 games were meh, but they were free so no...

Well, it's done. RX 6800 XT it is. Just didn't see a compelling reason to spend more than $500 on a GPU, which is exactly what it came out to be with the $40 coupon. My first build in nearly 5 years. Kept is at just over $1850+ which was my target budget. Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX CORSAIR...

Yeah. RT is nice, but it's not a must for me. I guess I'll stick with the 6800xt and save the cash. Trying to keep the budget around $1800 or so. I'll miss PhysX with the Batman games, but those are the only games where I've found PhysX to matter. The nVidia option seems to be better with...

As per title, it's been a LONG time since I've posted to this forum. To be truthful, even with an upgrade, I'm not sure how much gaming I'd be doing. I'm in a situation where I'm thinking of upgrading my PC right now. Currently moving away from a Geforce 2070 Super. Only really like the...

I guess there's still no word on the no sound issue when coming out of suspend mode with HD 1.3.38.26. I'm still rolling back to HD 1.3.38.21 manually after installing the latest graphic drivers.

Creative Labs 12mb Voodoo 2 SLI. I still run it in my legacy Win98se box for old school Glide games.

The ATI 9700 Pro was the first ATI card that made me jump ship from nVidia, of whom years previously I had jumped shipped from 3DFx. Up to that point, ATI was known for making somewhat good hardware, but really bad drivers and never really taking advantage of the performance it was capable of...

Anyone have issues with losing HD audio coming out of suspend mode? With the hd audio driver - 1.3.38.26 packaged with 445.75, I get no audio from my monitor once it comes out of sleep mode. Works fine initially, but once the monitor goes to sleep and wakes up again - no audio. Going back to...

Oh, I forgot to mention, this card seems to be clocked MUCH higher than advertised. This is the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC. Boost clock is listed as 1575MHz upper ceiling. According to HWMonitor and GPUz, it's actually 1663MHz. This being the case, I have no plans of overclocking...

OK. Decided to go with it and got the Vega 64. Prices came down to the point where I wanted to see what the big deal is with FreeSync (I just bought a 32" Pixio PX329, 1440p @144Hz, 165Hz w/o FreeSync). My son was looking for a little bit more performance over the Geforce 970 I gave him two...

Yeah, I'm sort of leaning in that direction. Seeing the huge price drop is what got me interested, but $400 is still $400 so the incremental gain might not be worth it.

I've been out of the PC upgrade game for a while now. Pretty much in the same boat. Just upgraded to an i7-8700k, but unsure whether I want to upgrade from my current Geforce 1070. I love the Batman games so I deliberately stayed with nVidia a couple of years ago just to take advantage of...

I've had this issue (twice). In each case, I had to RMA the card.

My Klipsch 4.1 finally died after 16+ years of service. Speakers sounded funny and the sub is definitely shot. I don't think any piece of hardware i've owned has lasted this long. You will be missed old friend. I'd bury you with a seven gun salute, but I don't think the local police will...