Recent content by Bunkey

As I see it, Newegg is the main point. I think any of us on this forum will be dealing with Newegg, the retailer, and not their suppliers or distributors they buy from. Next, this situation, on the face of it, is pretty near ridiculous, that these "mock ups" got, so far, as being delivered to...

Having a BA in Journalism and never having worked in the field, because a Journalism BA and $3.79 will get you a cheap cup of coffee at Starbucks. To Kyle, remember Watergate and the Washington Post Editor, demanding the Watergate reporters must get more than one source to make something...

The explanation was a bit more than needed, but thoroughly understandable. It looks to be a standard, that is nice to have, but probably won't be used. Something a particular software user would be looking to have for proper operation of their program, but for general PC users will never be used.

Looking at the ATI 5870 video cards, I find a few, that along with DX11, also support OpenGL3.2, which I know nothing about. Is it an important standard for a video card to support, as DX11 certainly is for Windows 7? I did a web search and can only find reference to the missing DLLs issue with...

Yesterday, I was doing several computer things for some hours with the ATI 10.1 drivers and my system snapped with the screen being all goofy and the audio hissing, like before. A reset button boot and a couple of restarts got me back to normal. Later, an hour or more, did a restart and my...

I am certain, now, that GIGABYTES DES,Dynamic Energy Saver program was the real source or culprit for my problems. When I first installed my motherboard and used DES in XP Pro, it quickly caused a lot of problems, much like the opening thread here. I installed Windows 7 retail, replacing Win 7...

I installed the latest 10.1 ATI Driver software version on my system and within 2 to 3 hours, I had a BSOD. This followed with intermittent video and audio corruption, needed a reset button action, and sudden restarts and more BSODs. These were an hour to hours between incidents. Along with this...

I think the supply problem, not to many retail units has hurt the usual progress of the 5XXX video cards. I believe I recently read TCM or TSM(?), the company that supplies the GPUs on ATI 5XXX cards has improved production and overcome manufacturing issues and, or low yields, so these cards can...

defy, you are probably right on the noise issue. I have heard some pre-built or boxed stock units at idle, that were louder than my system in the same mode. Prolima Tech has a just released GPU, video card cooler, the MK 13, which is huge and weighs some 555 grams. The cooler kit includes heats...

I over looked the Sapphire Vapor X ATI 5XXX cards, before my post, but after the reply here, I took another look. The review, I believe, on the OverClockersClub website was very favorable and said, the Vapor X cooling solution does lower temps a good bit, allows lower fan speed accordingly and...

When the 4870 and 4870X2 came out, I experienced the overly noisy stock cooling, to me, unsatisfactory, setup and jumped to the cooling modified cards, two or more fans and opened to the case design, that followed some months after the first release. Its been some months, I believe, since the...

I thought I read USB 3.0 was going to be delayed to 2012. That it couldn't be done on the normal motherboard chipsets and required a separate IC, circuit chip to run? Are these motherboards running such an IC? And didn't they jump SATA 3 name to SATA 6, I guess to reflect the 600 speed?

If Eyefinity makes multi-displays, panels an easy to implement feature, I could see it coming to a large market. But the complaints about the existing borders and distractions of, on these display setups will probably have to be addressed and customer calls, demands for solving the issue will...

The IEEE committee was held hostage by stubborn interest groups wanting their features, standards, to be in the N specs. and a required number of votes from the committee for standard adoption. This infighting is what held up this standard for years, pretty stupid, heh. Patents come into the...

It seems to have started with Vista, I never used it, that hardware drivers were coming from Microsoft solely and not from manufacturers. Going to the hardware manufacturers driver download sites, you were directed to Microsoft or the MS hardware driver update in Hardware Manager. On Window 7...