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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    I'm not familiar with how scaling works on the FW900-has anyone tested out the Dark Souls resolution fix, or is there any reason it wouldn't work? I tried custom downscaling in Amnesia once (with an AMD card) but the image did not actually scale down and I was left staring at the middle of the...
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    Any word on safe memory voltage?

    7870 Hawk with 2 phases for the memory. Googling this memory though, Hynix H5GQ2H24MFR-T2C, I'm a bit confused why it's running default at 1200@1.6V when it seems like it's rated 1250@1.5V. I don't think the poor overclock is a problem with my system either cause I had another 7870 Hawk that I...
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    Any word on safe memory voltage?

    So I ended up with a 7870 that doesn't overclock very much, but I've noticed that I can increase my memory clockspeed to at least 1325MHz after raising my memory to 1.65V from the stock 1.6V. Afterburner tops out at 1.7V-is this safe for the memory? I can't find any info on raising the memory...
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    MSI 7870 Hawk Running Hot & Loud

    Bit of an update here, I ended up RMAing the Hawk. It took the full two weeks to get back to me, but I was out of town so it wasn't a problem. I got sent a different card; not sure if it's a refurb or a new card, but they included a new retail box and the certificate, cables etc. The ASIC...
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    MSI 7870 Hawk Running Hot & Loud

    Yeah, the fans on the lightning are 100mm, afaik the hawk ones are 80mm. The lightning PCB/Shroud is actually wider than a regular one, so it's a bit hard to tell by eyeballing it. I gotta say though, I like the aesthetics of these newer Twin Frozrs over the older ones.
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    MSI 7870 Hawk Running Hot & Loud

    So after applying some Shin-Etsu G751, idles dropped to 29C, and running around in CS Source, temps settle at 69-70C with fan at 55%. Portal 1 reaches 71C and ramps up to 62% fanspeed. Just tested Morrowind too, and it got up to 66C at 52% fanspeed. I didn't do a great job at removing the old...
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    MSI 7870 Hawk Running Hot & Loud

    Spoke to MSI tech support guy and he actually said I could try reseating the heatsink before an RMA. Let's see if that's the problem.
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    Better IQ: Downscaling (AMD+NV)

    Does this work for CRTs? I tried this out using a tool for AMD cards but it doesn't downscale the image so I'm looking at the very center of the image when I start up a game and choose the resolution. There aren't any options in the control panel to turn off scaling for an analog display rather...
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    MSI 7870 Hawk Running Hot & Loud

    Scratch my earlier estimate of the idle, cause after letting it sit for a while it seems like the idle temp is 35C which is a lot better. Removing the side panel lowered load temps by about 3-4C in Portal 2 from 79-80C to 76-77C and the fan from 86% to 76%. I think I'll definitely contact MSI...
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    MSI 7870 Hawk Running Hot & Loud

    Looking at the 7850 Twin Frozr heatsink, this one for the 7870 looks a lot more substantial so I'd expect it to have similar or better cooling characteristics accounting for the higher TDP. Right now my card is idling at 49-52C...not sure if it could be the heatsink's not properly mounted. Is...
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    MSI 7870 Hawk Running Hot & Loud

    I set up this card yesterday. Performance is nice, almost more than I expected, and there seems to be a lot of headroom with the small amount of testing I did so far. Drivers are perfect after simply uninstalling the previous Cats and installing the June 6 betas. But the card is running really...
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    Thanks for letting me know. I'd assumed the adapter could work both ways...which probably says how much I know about this stuff. I'll look into the RGB cable then.
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    If I wanted to play my SNES using the FW900, am I correct in assuming that it's not as simple as using an adapter cable? Would this convertor work: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011407&p_id=4724&seq=1&format=2 for either the SNES S-video cable or...
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    I only use the monitor for my computer use, so I was just annoyed at the prospect of having to switch out the connectors every time I wanted to watch a BD. And it significantly changes the PQ? I guess I'll have to pick up an HDCP screen like you said. Thanks guys.
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    I have just enough room in this apartment for the CRT, so I won't be getting a big tv anytime soon ;) But from this thread though, it looks like even HDFury 3 doesn't have the bandwidth 1920x1200@85Hz. No way am I going to lower it to 60Hz if I can help it. So there's no legit way around it?
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