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    MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherboard Review @ [H]

    I had both boards and I really like this MSI board (previously all my boards were Asus RE boards). Heatsinks design aside, they are most certainly more solid and actually doing a better job than the ones on the RIVE for which you WILL need a waterblock at extra cost. I have no complains...
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    Rampage IV-E versus MSI BigBang Xpower II

    To share my experience, when I changed to X79 I initially bought the RIVE but found it to be DOA AFTER I had assembed everything including the CPU/GPU water loop, the board was not able to boot up..... The shop where I bought it offered exchange with EVGA classified or the MSI BB XPII since...
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    nvidia or ATI?

    Go with Nvidia. Hardware is good and drivers are good. Just changed from ATI to Nvidia and am very happy. Games run a lot smoother. AMD is not able to beat NVidia on hardware side in terms of performance but they sell their hardware cheaper so its is a good deal, BUT you are still left with...
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    ATI to Nvidia switch

    So far many who answered where having card of both parties. For me before the 8800GTX I was with a X1900 and before that X1800 (before THAT I was all the way on consoles...since I had not discovered then my today's hobby, the PC you build, upgrade & tune yourself). Just to probe further, there...
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    ATI to Nvidia switch

    So I am not the only one. After the crossfire experience and browsing many forums I am more and more inclined to stay away from multi-gpu setups (I thought next year I may pick up a second gtx580).
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    ATI to Nvidia switch

    I have just changed from a 5870 crossfire setup to a single GTX580 and want to share the experience. It is quite amazing and of the games I had time to try so far, they play much smoother now, especially GTAIV, NSF Hot Pursuit, NFS Shift, Alien vs Predator (this surprised me...), Fallout New...
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    "Upgraded" from HD5970 to GTX570, and Absolutely Thrilled!

    Anyway you have a point more choice for gamers, which brings us back to the OP experience of driver support. It seems this series looks better, whether irfan be maintained for new games and leveraged to the previous gen cards such as the hd5 series remains to be seen.
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    "Upgraded" from HD5970 to GTX570, and Absolutely Thrilled!

    Reaper my thinking may be to simple but amd had quite a head start for about 6-7 month plus as said the chip has gotten bigger and is approaching the three billion transistor range and they are still not able to pull ahead. Why? When decided to go back to ati after a gtx280 it was because of...
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    "Upgraded" from HD5970 to GTX570, and Absolutely Thrilled!

    The past two years ati build smaller chips and banked on price performance ratio. You are right they place the new cards below the gtx580. What made me think that they have been caught with their pants down is the following: They had a head start into dx11 and in the end it seems that nvidia...
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    "Upgraded" from HD5970 to GTX570, and Absolutely Thrilled!

    I will be purchasing a gtx580 soon, coming from 5870 crossfire and tired waiting for a decent diver. Was thinking very hard since both cards look nice with ek block but after solid three days trying driver after driver and a plethora of games... I give up on AMD. Terry is still on the driver...
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    Catalyst 10.8 Install = black borders around screen?

    Flapjack, this is a know bug for 10.8. You can revert to 10.7 or instead if you really want to use the 10.8's you can setup a custom resolution and apply this instead. Drawback of a custom resolution is that you will have to run at a slightly lower resolution than your screens native...
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    AMD/ATI - Hardware vs Software support

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    AMD/ATI - Hardware vs Software support

    The troll is the one who does not actually bothers to understand the argument brought forward and states meaningless platitudes. Answer to the points brought forward (I say it again for you: Poor Crossfire performance after many month + driver regression). You got something meaningful to say...
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    AMD/ATI - Hardware vs Software support

    Agreed. I just installed Borderlands again after changing my SSD and encountered the same issue using 10.7. Now I switched back to 10.4 a few month old driver...what a screw up, really someone needs to go/replaced to bring fresh wind into this driver team fiasco. As of now I am thinking very...
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    AMD/ATI - Hardware vs Software support

    I myself come from Nvidia after having a 8800GTX, followed by a GTX280. Then I waited for Nvidia's next gen and as the info's trickled out of high heat/power consumption, I decided to try ATI since the reviews of their hardware were very favourable. So I am able to compare the drivers and...
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