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    ATI Radeon HD 4870 and HD 4850 GPUs were released 15 years ago

    Just wore out my HD 5870 that I bought over 15 years ago used w/ waterblock here from a Hardforum user. A fine card, it lived a good long life. I'm not much of a gamer but I do some CAD type stuff, watch movies and videos, have a lot of windows open. Debating between RX6700XT and RTX3070...
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    Haven't built a rig since the i7-3770k was king, is hardware offloaded audio still a thing? I'm finding very little [H]ard evidence on the subject.

    I've got an old PCI analog sound card with a 24 bit DAC. New motherboard has PCIE but not PCI anymore. Is there some sort of PCIE adapter in which I can put it, and say run USB in and analog out to my studio monitors? Or I see there's a PCI to PCIE converter on amazon for $40. We are...
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    Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 and ECC Works fine!

    I have an old build I did years ago with a Sabertooth 990FX R2 mobo and had a problem develop under warranty. After much annoying discussion where I think they pretended not to understand what I was saying, I was finally able to RMA the board and they sent a replacement. The replacement was...
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    Sabertooth Mobo's

    I've had a terrible time with the 990FX rev 2.0 . After about six months of light use it developed overheating in some chips and I returned it to the mfr. The board they sent back wouldn't power up. After I documented this and fought them a lot time for another shipping label, they send me...
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    Seasonic Topre Type Heaven Keyboard and S12G PSU Lucky Draw

    Because I need a good keyboard!
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    Trade in reference 7970 for Asus DCUII?

    So why not get the EK block now for the existing card? Save all the shipping back and forth, and solve the noise problem better than any air cooled solution.
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    Want to move away from ubuntu

    Another bleeding-edge distro is Semplice. http://semplice-linux.org/ I'm running 2.0, which is still available from http://semplice-linux.org/download/ not the 3.0 alpha release. I got fed up with Gnome 3 bugs showing up on one of my computers (a Dell server) and figured out the errors...
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    Bitcoin Discussion Thread Part 2

    Why do you like 5870s for mining? What did you swap them out / in for, just out of curiosity?
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    Trade Your Driving Privacy for a Free TomTom GPS

    My kids have been well trained by my wife and me to be paranoid about this stuff. :D
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    PC shuts down in mid game. Psu?

    I think I'm having the same problem with my Radeon 5870 but it's watercooled and the water is flowing in the loop, not hot at all. Twice today it just went to a black screen. I never had this problem before, but yesterday I turned up the clocks on the 5870 to the max provided on the Catalyst...
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    games on seperate drive?

    I haven't noticed a recent version of this thread ... Any update suggestions based on SSDs? I have a 60 gig SATA III SSD, and a 2 TB Hitachi 7200rpm spinning disk with 32MB cache. I have an Intel setup that allows me to use another SSD as a sort of cache between the hard disk and CPU, but...
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    Pick me out new LED 24" monitor's and a LED 47" 1080p TV!

    So which is it -- do plasmas have lingering images, or superior refresh to LCD?
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    Path Uploads Your iPhone Address Book To Its Servers

    Then he should have disclosed that he was going to do it, and you would remain as a customer because you don't mind.
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    AMD Named to Top 20 of Clean Capitalism Ranking

    So AMD gets bent out of shape over carbon emissions (imho a non-issue) and uses affirmative action in selecting their leadership? No wonder they are falling behind Intel! I used to think of AMD as the cool tech company that was "clean" with respect to architecture coolness. Now I see...
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    Audio Recording Law Under Scrutiny in Illinois

    Cops being recorded are on the job being paid. On the job we expect to give up many of our civil rights in exchange for the pay. The people they record should be enjoying their full civil rights, however, whatever the judges say that means in terms of recordings.
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