Recent content by Betrayer00GT

Thanks for your suggestion... Unfortunately, between the new marriage, new child, new house, and current condition of the economy and its effects on my finances, my budget for this is exactly $0. However, if I find my CPU wb won't fit because of the capacitors that are pretty close to the...

I haven’t looked into WC info for years and feel completely out-of-date. I’ve gotten married and become a father since the last time I did this and am very short on time these days. I would really appreciate your help and am hoping someone on this board can let me know if scaling...

Actually, as I indicated, I had the offer of a second 8800GT in my ticket already. I think that is an excellent solution. However, I think I am going to use this as an excuse to finally sell my remaining GTS 640 to a friend with one already who has been saying he is interested in my second card...

Well, XFX agrees, so that is awesome. I guess this was just a minor attention to detail issue. They obviously agree with boomhower and I: We can RMa the other 88GTS for another 8800GT 512 card to get your SLI rig back up and runnning.

Thanks guys, I was planning to give them a call on Monday. I just don't want to have warped expectations. Boomhower, that is basically where I'm at, but I don't think they are open on the weekends, and I wanted to see if others shared my expectations. Good point, except that they did know...

No, I found out after business hours today (Friday). They would not even be able to respond until Monday, and I am not even sure I should be upset. I have had my rig turned into a single gpu system, though I spent good money on SLI. Maybe it is unresonable to expect that to matter, though. I...

Hey, guys. I understand that an 8800GT and an old 8800GTS 640 are reasonably equivalent (96->112SPs, but 128MB more ram and 50% more memory bus width), but I bought a second card for SLI and the second card failed. Now I have an 8800GT RMA replacement and my original 8800GTS 640. Maybe an...

Swiftech says that the 355 is louder than the 350 and the 655, actually. I have the 655 w/ no adjustably, it just runs on full all the time, and it is very quiet/low vibration. With only a couple decent fans running, I think I would not hear the pump for the fans. Of course, I run 9 120mm fans...

When I first got TF2, I had such a choppy/laggy response from that game (only when moving or w/ moving objects, great when standing still), that I put in a ticket. Turned out, it was only with the Valve "test" servers that I was connecting to. All other servers (anything that didn't have "valve"...

Ahh, then I would definitely "pester him". Try it. Worst case is you could just "pester him" again to put it back (if he even cares, which he might not - right?). Your 8600 series cards are a bit different than the other stuff out, now. Only 32SPs was a really limiting factor for them. Way...

Yes, you could. You would end up running, effectively, with a pair of 256MB 8600GTS cards when in SLI. This is the same issue that was run into when the 8800GTS 320 and 640 were the two cheapest DX10 cards. You can mix different RAM amounts, and different clock speeds, but which ever is...

50% more memory-path width and 50% more RAM, FTW. Why "step up" to 33% less bandwidth/clock and 33% less RAM, again? The rendering horsepower in the 9800GTX (and other 256-bit memory sub-system cards) is only needed for playable/optimal frame rates with higher shader/processing settings in...

+1 RivaTuner is excellent. 2.09 seems to be continuing a very good trend...

That is in the US, and I am grateful since I have a replacement 8800GTS 640MB out with FedEx right now. Unfortunately, their ROW warranty sucks at only 1 year. No ability to transfer it, either. Better off with another maker for anyone making a Rest-Of-World purchase. A lot of mfgs reduce the...

Yeah, I always disliked that. A video/cpu hardware benchmark that REQUIRES internet connectivity is idiotic. Clearly only done to track people and use that to add to their bottom line. Unfortunately I signed up to download this Vantage, but at least I got laid-off and busy with my job-search...