Recent content by Xeon79

Its possible with the guys running shadow shifts, but to clear the air about those who still think this possibly an OEM model, Ive run across a hundred OEM models of video cards in my time and never seen one with 1/10th the specs of the original, considering the shader count on my lesser 760 is...

The game utilizes about 65% of my quad core, however. Overclocking does increase framerate. The game does utilize quad core but you will only get modest gains assuming clock speed and CPU type remain the same. I would suggest a mild overclock of your CPU and to purchase one of the 560 tis if...

I had a friend who had a drive go bad and asked for my help in recovering the files. He also said that they were priceless. Unfortunately, for him, he's behind bars charged with possessing child pornography so if ur not wanting someone to see it because of it not being legal, then ur best bet...

Just buy the cheapest memory you can find from a reputable company like crucial, samsung, kingston. Buy the cheapy chicks without the heatspreader.

If they do port games from the new consoles, then yes, RAM usage could go up, especially if they're crappy ports. I could easily see this happen, since the PC has a lot more running on it than the console will, but most importantly, GPU ram type, speed, and amount is the biggest key, and alot...

Bottom line is the stick is bad. If you can, return it and get another.

You dont need anything fancy. Just buy the cheapest 2133 sticks without heatspreaders you can find, and it will do the trick as well as most of the fancy overpriced stuff. These days those heatspreaders are just hiding a dirty little secret, 1333mhz rated chips. I'd vouch for the samsung, or...

Yeah, I made the mistake of buying one of those fancy memorysets that claim tight timings and have the fancy heatspreader on it. Memory doesnt even need a heatspreader as it doesnt even get warm. They put these on them so they can hide the "cheap" memory underneath and is most part a ripoff...

Games like killingfloor are not optimized for the high end GPUs today. I pulled up the requirements for this game, and min it says an intel 1.4, Athlon xp 1.4, 64mb directx 8 card, recommend was like 2.8ghz, 128mb 9600 pro. The igpu of today is as powerful as that if not more. Its no wonder why...

All of AMDs APUs were designed to support hybrid crossfire. There are limits to which video card each APU can be crossfired to. You can find this info on AMDs website, and this is not the work of Lucidlogix which is seemingly trash because it only seemed to increase framerate if the fps was...

I guess it is a noobish question to ask on my part. I just found the reviews of the myst edition card here on [H] and it looks like it bests the 660ti most of the time by a small margin and is only slightly behind a 7950. I'm leary of the dell OEM card. I bought one before, and it was noisy...

Hello, Looking to push the button on a video card upgrade sometime today or tomorrow. The ones I'm eyeing are stated in the title. I have the opportunity to buy a Myst edition 7870 for $200, while a 660ti (dell OEM) for $185, also considering one of the smaller length zotac cards for $225...

I have a few year old Ocz modxtreme 650w and everytime I shutdown, the system fans keep running. Also, I can eject my dvd drive in this state aswell. To see if it was system or PSU related, I yanked the PSU, and apon just plugging the cord in, it will turn on automatically, without being...

Actually, in my case, it did work. I did not have to reinstall. I'm still using the factory installed OS with the COA on the side applied to re-activate. It was linked to the motherboard in the first place, and that's why it came up as not genuine, however, it allowed me to put in the product...

UPDATE: If I had to choose between buying an HP OEM board or having to buy Windows, I'd just buy Windows, due to the lackluster performance and features of the boards used. I really enjoy having USB 3.0 and having SATA III will come in handy when I pop in a SDD down the road. I was able...