Recent content by Albuquerque

I actually have a 2.4C M0 that will do 284FSB (3.40ghz) on stock voltage, and will do 292FSB at 1.55v... I'm pretty damned sure this puppy would do 300+, except that I can't get it that high on my current motherboard. I'm very tempted to sell it; quite a few people are looking for the UBER...

Let's try this one more time: ABSOLUTELY ZERO OF ATI'S CURRENT RADEON DESKTOP LINE IS VOLTAGE-REGULATED BY THE ONBOARD VIDEO BIOS. Did I leave any room for interpretation in THAT sentence? Good.

Want a really cool example of pixel shading? :) Click me! Pixel shading is what creates the texture of the tiles (notice you can see bumps in the nearer ones?) the water reflection, the water refraction (notice how everything under water, to include the actual shadow, is rippling?), and the...

No, ATI's implementation of their BIOS has absolutely zero way to impact voltage sent to the components of the card; voltages are entirely handled by the onboard regulation circutry. Unless you modify that circuitry, you have no way to modify the voltages sent to the GPU, the DRAM or any other...

In a laptop?!? The mobile version is not the same as the desktop version. They typically run on much lower power, and as you've already noticed, have absolutely zero room for heat dispersion. Furthermore, I don't know where you're getting your numbers, but the "normal" FX5200 part even in a...

Your room temp is 31c? Or just your case temp? Because that's pretty stinkin warm! :eek: My room temp is about 72f, or about 22c. Northbridge temps hover around 39c, and CPU temps hover around 54c when fully loaded. I have a VERY minimal number of fans going in this machine, hence the...

His temps are nothing, mine were horrible with the stock cooling. It would idle at like 68c, and fully load at like 81c :eek: :eek: I strapped the VGA silencer on there and now it's doing basically the same temps as his... I think these true R360 cores just run hot for some reason; I can't...

Most everyone seems to have forgotten texture memory in here... With the advent of high-res 32-bit textures and high anisotropic filtering levels that push the use of those high res textures, even current games can use more than 128mb of ram without antialiasing and without having to run at...

Those Alby NV cards are pretty damned decent last I recall... But I'm kinda biased to Albatron anyway :D

If gaming is your ONLY consideration, then this would be correct. However, the original post specifically mentions video editing and image editing, which means that a gaming card is not top priority. The best card you can buy for video and image editing would be a Matrox of some flavor. No...

My 9800Pro with the XT core won't do full XT speeds, but I'm assuming that's because of the lack of voltage as-stated above. It could also use a little more ram speed in my opinion, but who am I to argue? :p Maybe I'll pencil mod it :D heheheh

at the console: /r_displayinfo 1

While it's completely unrelated to the subject at hand, I have a hard time believing you got decently playable framerates throughout the ENTIRE game with those settings and the rig in your signature. My normal 40-60fps drops to about 30-50FPS when I run a 1280x1024 resolution, and then drops...

Because of the extreme view distance, especially when traversing the landscape by some form of vehicle, having the extra ram can really help out your framerates bigtime. It can also help out intermittent jerkiness too...

I just bumped from 9800np 128mb to a 9800Pro 256mb (XT core) and noticed basically no difference over several different locations in the game.