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    Xbox Exec Promises To Improve PC Gaming

    it would be nice if they made the whole Halo series available to pc. They would make tons of money. I never liked consoles.
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    Users Report AMD Crimson Driver Heating And Killing GPUs

    First thing I did when I installed the drivers was look where to change fan speed. I always run my fans at at least 50%.
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    Batman Confronts Superman In New Dawn Of Justice Trailer

    I wonder if they are going to stick to the original story where Batman beat Superman then faked his death.
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    If Everything Was Bundled Like Cable

    FYI the video does not work do to copyright infringement. Have to go to the website to watch it. Go figure.
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    what I did I took my Powersupply which is a Cosair gs800 out of my PC and put it in my daughter's pc then I put the r9 290 in my daughter's PC. Boot it up, install drivers and bam everything work fine. Was able to watch a 45 min Video with not hard lockups. Put everything back in my PC and 2...
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    From what have been reading there are some with the 800 series chipset that are having the same issues. But it is not wildly know.
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    The motherboard I had there was 2 versions of it. The Version I have only uses ddr2. The other version uses ddr3. I had the ddr2 memory from a previous board that had a 1.0 PCIEx16 slot and I had to get a new motherboard with a PCIE 2.0 slot in order to use my XFX 5830.
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    Just a update the answer is no some older chipsets the R9 290/290x is not compatible. I have to get a new motherboard and of course memory since my old motherboard uses ddr2. After taking my graphics card and my powersupply and put it in my daughters PC which is alot newer than mine. The r9...
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    Well that didn't take long it runs fine in 3d but for some reason it is locking up my PC that I have to hit the rest button in order to reboot it.
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    Well got my replacement card and so far all is ok I am guessing that the last r9 was bad. Gotta love QA doing their job.
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    Yes I was doing some gaming and it was the same voltage across. even easytune 6 that Gigabyte has is reporting the same thing except it says it is at 12.110 volts
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    If I am reading this right it says the 12v, voltage is 12.112 volts. Also Newegg had received my card back and has approved a replacement. Hopefully they will shipped from their warehouse in Memphis so it can get here quicker.
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    R9 290 on older chipsets

    Yes I always update the bios to the latest one which is the last one that Gigabyte release for my motherboard back in 2012. My card has made it to California so now I am waiting on hearing from Newegg to see if it was defiantly bad.
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    RMA turnaround time

    Going thru with a RMA right now with Newegg. I was still within their 30 day window so I dont have to deal with XFX in trying to replace my r9 290 that lasted a little over an hour.
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    Man Caught Smuggling 94 iPhones Into China

    They might be stolen is the reason why the detain him.
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