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I'm replacing my 1080 Ti FE cooler with an Accelero and trying to find the best VRM/VRAM cooling solution. The Accelero includes basic RAM and VRM sinks, which will work but are going to be a pain to install properly, and there's the additional failure mode of thermal tape failure. The FE...

In the past and on other boards, I've set LLC to "disabled," which presumably means "Intel spec behavior." On this board, Asus doesn't provide an obvious "disabled"/"Intel spec" option; instead, the options are "auto" and "levels" ranging from 1 to 7. The setting description within the BIOS...

Edit: looks like this is available to everyone. It is also available via Twitter: https://twitter.com/Newegg/status/542017030657175552. (See https://sync.americanexpress.com/twitter/Index for details on that.) This means Serve and Bluebird accounts should be eligible as well, and Serve allows...

The Haswell Xeons are up on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116906 (E3-1230v3) Has anyone heard if it's possible to OC these with BCLK straps, or are they disabling that like with 2011 Xeons? (It's between that and the 4770; my next CPU is going to have...

I'm unable to install or run any newer Linux (Ubuntu 11.04 works; 12.04 didn't) with X properly, or OS X, due to an ACPI issue with my board. Windows 7 works fine. Here's what happens: Ubuntu 12.04 - if installed (possible using the alternate installation disc which is a text-based...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/20/intel-sandy-bridge-cpus-and-motherboards-on-sale-in-malaysia-wh/

Now dead. http://promotions.newegg.com/holidaygiftcard/index.html?nm_mc=EMC-BH121310&cm_mmc=EMC-BH121310-_-EMC-121310-Index-_-banner-_-GiftCard

I know this is the PSU section, but you guys are pretty smart so I thought this would be a good place to ask this. My APC Smart-UPS SUA750 just turned on its "AVR Trim" function a few minutes ago. Googling reveals it is compensating for a high input voltage from the utility company. PowerChute...

I've noticed some oddities with Bad Company 2 and NVIDIA's sparse-grid SSAA implementation. I'm running a single GTX 580 with Windows 7 x64 and the latest 263.09 driver, but this issue also occurs with the 262.99 driver. I play at my native resolution of 1920x1080 on a single display...

Do any controllers support this (particularly under RAID 0) these days? Googling this isn't helpful at all - just yields a bunch of year-old "is TRIM supported?" forum questions and misinformation that the Intel RST driver supports TRIM on SSDs in a RAID array (from what I understand, it doesn't).

Just curious. Thinking about picking it up (believe it or not I've never played CS!). Is it more similar to BF (BF2, BC2) or CoD in terms of how many shots it takes to kill or be killed?

I'm thinking they couldn't be considering how quick this launch was from announcement to sale, but maybe they bought pre-binned cards from NVIDIA. Does anyone know?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-580-gf110-geforce-gtx-480,2781.html

http://battlefield.play4free.com/ It's a 32-player free-to-play BF2 with slightly improved graphics and sounds. I'm not sure if they've ported the Frostbite HDR audio to the Refractor 2 engine which I assume they're using. (Porting BF2 to Frostbite would make no sense as that's what BF3 is...

http://en.expreview.com/2010/10/28/intel-x25-m-g3-ssd-debuts-at-taobao/11208.html Prices don't look good at all. Let's hope they're adjusted before the actual release.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-260.99-whql-driver.html

Check this out at TPU. AMD seems to be playing games with at least some of the 6850 samples and sending them out with 1120 shaders enabled.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27 "4 core i7" - could be 1366 or 1156.

Intel has a line of dual-port NICs but all of them seem to use a single controller for both ports. Does that matter? In a worst case scenario, will two single-port PCIe x1 NICs perform better than the single dual-port NIC?

This thread is to discuss experiences with the open beta. You should be able to download it from FilePlanet, FileFront and various other sources. Initial impressions are just OK. It is an obvious console port, but the gameplay still works half decently on PC. The menu layout is clunky and...

I've got an Antec P182 which is one of the few cases (800D and TJ-07 are the only others IIRC) to have a dedicated power supply chamber. The idea is to keep the CPU and GPU heat in the top chamber and keep the PSU in the cooler chamber so its fan doesn't ramp up as often. It would be a nice...

I bought this board several months ago with the intention of only using a single GPU. I've decided to go SLI with GTX 400 cards and since this board doesn't support SLI, I upgraded to a P6X58D Premium. 6 SATA 3Gb/s ports 1 IDE port (can be used with two drives) CrossFireX support (no SLI)...

A friend, who has the same monitor as me (NEC EA231WMi), showed me the LCD Overdrive function of his 5850. In darker games (RTCW for instance), I think it could make a big difference with this panel which has no built-in RTC. The problem is I have an NVIDIA card. How exactly is ATI applying...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/18/intel-wants-to-charge-50-to-unlock-stuff-your-cpu-can-already-d/ They'd better not do this with enthusiast Sandy Bridge parts.

Does anyone have benchmarks on GTX 460 SLI using SFR? Every review I've read seems to be using AFR, and that's unacceptable to me because: Extra input lag AFR creates Microstuttering VSync + triple buffering issues I am currently considering an SLI setup and am about to pull the...

http://kotaku.com/5638918/call-of-duty-black-ops-gets-its-own-limited-edition-jeep?skyline=true&s=i Black Ops coffee makers and microwaves are next.

I've currently got the P6T SE board, and I am looking to upgrade it for SLI support. The closest option I can see is the P6T which is very similar (same layout and all), just with an extra JMicron controller and SLI support. One thing I've noticed between boards though is their power delivery...

ASUS advertises this board as only supporting 2-way SLI, presumably due to its less-than-ideal slot layout (PCIe, PCI, PCI, PCIe, PCIe). However, it supports an x16/x8/x8 slot configuration. Would 3-way SLI therefore be supported with single-slot cards (i.e. water cooling)?

So SATA 6 has been out and available for several months now. At the moment the only controllers are from Marvell and are PCIe x1 (for a 600 MiB/s bus). When are we going to start seeing some reasonable controller products that aren't bottlenecked by their PCIe bus? (RAID obviously not being a...

Has anyone managed full-screen SSAA with Surround on a GTX 400 series card? I'm willing to bet with SLI it's easily done with older games (Q3) and maybe even with tri SLI, newer games like Bad Company 2 with lower settings.

nHancer used to let me do this but there's no updated version for the 258 drivers yet. I've got NVIDIA Inspector but can't find a way to change the LOD there either. Is there any other utility I can use?

I'd like to do a full system stress test overnight by load testing both the CPU and the GPU. I know running Linpack overnight on the CPU is not a problem, but what about FurMark on the GPU? I will of course be monitoring temps for a few hours, and then I'll let it sit overnight and check it in...

So far I know of Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and XFX (one warranty transfer and no GTX 400 cards). Anyone know of other AIBs that sell GTX 400 cards that allow warranty transfer, whether it's just one or unlimited? I don't care about the length of the warranty (as long as it's reasonable - 2-3 years) as...

I'm looking for a hardware RAID controller with SATA 6Gbps support for my friend's rig. His specifications are the same as mine (P6T SE board). He plans on using 4 of those Crucial 6Gbps SSDs. I've found one LSI controller but the reviews indicate it's not compatible with certain Asus boards...

Taking Source games (at least TF2 and L4D2) as an example, they offer both "full" HDR and bloom. BC2 also offers bloom. Oblivion offers the same as Source games. What's the actual technical difference? My current understanding is that bloom is a "fake" HDR effect and full HDR is obviously the...

Title says it all: is SFR compatible with 3-way SLI? I don't want the microstutter problems associated with AFR. What about with 2D Surround?

Apologies if this is reposted (it's a few days old). I did a search in quite a few places and couldn't find anything about this in regards to the GF100 (only about G92). http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/07/12/nvidia-backpedals-gf100gtx480-underfill/ I'd like to know about the GF104.

Several games offer the ability to set the gamma. I'm going to use ARMA 2 as an example. Its default gamma is somewhere around 1.0. I'd think this should be set to 2.2, which is the sRGB gamma, but on most games it either doesn't go that far, or if it does, the colors don't look good. What's...

Ignoring vendor preferences, GPU acceleration, business tactics (hey Nvidia!), speed, price, licensing, etc., which one is the most true-to-life? I'm thinking that would be Newton because of its deterministic solver?

The VSA (from 3dfx for the 2 of you that don't remember) provided some amazing scaling, better than SLI and CF from what I understand/remember. Why haven't we seen any more architectures like this?