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    1366 x58 Xeon Enthusiast overclocks club

    Alright, finally an update. I replaced the old i7 920 CPU with a new one X5690 and set the BCLK to 165 from 180 and set the voltage levels in the BIOS back to Auto, which cranked up the CPU to 1.35 V from 1.2 V and the RAM from 1.5 V to 1.56 V which is a bit lot more than the old system running...
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    1366 x58 Xeon Enthusiast overclocks club

    After 10.5-years of running on an Intel i7-920 4C 2.6 GHz @ 3.6 GHz Air I am finally upgrading to the Intel Xeon X5690 6C 3.46 GHz and will try for the 4.2 GHz overclock that seems to be pretty standard overclock on Air after spending all of $85 USD on eBay for it. Getting 2 extra Cores and...
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    OCZ Vertex & Agility Gen 1 40GB SSDs = All 4 Dead

    OCZ NEVER AGAIN!!! Just wanted to add my voice to the choir on the net to say that another OCZ Vertex Gen 1 40GB Solid State Hard Drive is dead. Below are the units that have died that I purchased or recommended for others. Burned by all of them, even the PBX system I built for friends that...
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    Sapphire HD 6950 2GB DiRT 3 Video Card Review @ HardOCP

    I just received this card in the mail, flipped the little BIOS switch next to the CrossFire connector on the card and now it shows 1536-shaders. I didn't have to do anything else to unlock it. SAPPHIRE 100312-3SR Radeon HD 6950 Dirt3 Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready...
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    nVidia GTX 260 to AMD 6950 2 GB - Switching Camps for BF3?

    Got the card and just installed it. I changed the BIOS switch and now my card is showing 1536 Unified Shaders in GPU-Z, easiest unlock 6970 ever. Installed Saphire Trixx and overclocked it 925 MHz since 950 MHz froze 3DMark Vantage New Calico test at 1920x1200. Running at ~72C temps and 50%...
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    nVidia GTX 260 to AMD 6950 2 GB - Switching Camps for BF3?

    Half a year ago I speced out a system for a co-worker wanting to upgrade. He was only interested in playing Civilization 5 so I heartily recommended the newly released MSI nVidia 560 Ti TwinFrozr II since that card edged ahead of the 6950 and even the 6970 in the only game that he was...
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    nVidia GTX 260 to AMD 6950 2 GB - Switching Camps for BF3?

    Already did the research to unlock the shaders using RBE and also to overclock the GPU on it a healthy ~100 MHz amount but leave the memory stock since it doesn't overclock well. I re-checked my bang-for-buck ratio and this card is it. The 6970 is ~$100 USD more expensive +20% and only offers...
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    nVidia GTX 260 to AMD 6950 2 GB - Switching Camps for BF3?

    I just pulled the trigger and ordered the 6950 2GB linked to above along with Battlefield 3 Limited Edition. Looking forward to reliving the fun times of flying helicopters with my full stick, rudder, and throttle.
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    nVidia GTX 260 to AMD 6950 2 GB - Switching Camps for BF3?

    I'm thinking of switching camps from being a long time nVidia fan until the wholeFermi debacle soured me on the company and their treatment of their customers and the heat that these cards produce. Looking at the latest Battlefield 3 benchmarks it seems like the AMD (ATI) cards are 10% faster...
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    Gtx 480 Unigine Video (and benchmark)

    I just found out late that STALKER Call of Pripyat has been out for a month and I missed the release and ordered it just now (probably a good thing since the update patches and mods are out now anyway). Now I'm in the market for another video card upgrade to go to something faster than my...
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    HP LP2475w (Possible new IPS)

    You both do realize that you're talking about a different model number with different LCD panel technology according to TFT Central.com, right? HP LP2465 - 6ms G2G - 24"WS Samsung S-PVA (LTM240M2) HP LP2475w - 6ms G2G - 24"WS LG.Display H-IPS (LM240WU4-SLA1) I was confused when you mentioned...
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    LCD: 24" IPS - HP LP2475w, Planar PX2611W, NEC LCD2490WUXi-BK

    HardForum - HP LP2475w From a Gamer's Perspective - by Skakruk Post - #20 Thanks to the TFT Central review of the HP LP2475w by Simon Baker on 9 September 2008 I found out how to get into the Service Menu, again after forgetting how to. I read this review a while back when I was deciding to...
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    HP LP2475w (Possible new IPS)

    I ran the Lagom LCD Test - Response Time with the moving bars and there is clearly visible negative ghosting shown as a black trailing bar at any of the 64/128 96/224 128/255 tests on both monitors and the issue looks the same on the old and new version. You can see the images of this below in...
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    LCD: 24" IPS - HP LP2475w, Planar PX2611W, NEC LCD2490WUXi-BK

    I'm posting pictures of the individual monitor tests. Be aware that I took these pictures at ISO-200 film speed and you'll see the missing little boxes under the moving vertical trip. The blur and ghosting tests should have been done at ISO 800 or ISO 1600 speed so I will try to re-take them...
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    HP LP2475w (Possible new IPS)

    Patrick already beat me to it but I'm the person who bought the second monitor and I ran two different input lag tests on it with the monitors side-by-side in clone mode and confirmed that there is absolutely no difference in input lag at all between these two monitors. The details are in my...
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