• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Recent content by mashedpotatoes

  1. M

    Sapphire X1950pro Ripple effect!!

    Sounds like the AF boundary to me. Make sure you have some enabled in control panel.
  2. M

    512MB X1950PRO VS 7800GS 256MB(AGP)

    I'm on a 1950 pro 512mb (for just over a month now) and I'd say definately get the ati card or something better. The way people on this forum talk sometimes it's like the cards in this range are TOO good for 1280 res but I still feel like I could have more power. Don't get me wrong, it plays...
  3. M

    1950pro or XT?

    Ah sorry, meant to put that in and completely forgot. x2 3800 @ 2.2ghz and 1gb ddr1
  4. M

    1950pro or XT?

    It's not a direct comparison but i've just upgraded from an nvidia 6800nu 128mb to a x1950 pro 512mb (going from agp to pci-e to muddy up the comparison even further) and i'm getting at least twice the framerates at the same settings. In test drive unlimited and oblivion it's meant me...
  5. M

    New to ATI - drivers?

    Thanks, very helpful post. I had disabled the ati hotkey thing, the tweak guide I read implied it was only important if you overclock but reenabling the service gave me another 5 or so fps in oblivion. Shan't bother with the temporal aa, 30ish fps with as much eye candy as i can get is...
  6. M

    New to ATI - drivers?

    Thanks for the replies guys! I downloaded the standard driver with ccc and was amazed that windows was using 100mb more at boot. Thankfully I find that I can safely disable most of that but having to dive into msconfig and services.msc to do so was a bit annoying. Got it running at pretty...
  7. M

    New to ATI - drivers?

    Having been an nvidia user for the last 7 years I've joined the red team after succumbing to a super cheap x1950 pro 512mb. I'm seeing a bit of confusion about which drivers to use though, which set is best for xp? I'm planning to have a second, much more glorious (my 6800nu struggled...)...
  8. M

    8600GTS Preview

    What you guys have to bear in mind is that nvidia is going to stop manufacturing the 7 series, this is replacing them. The 8800gts versions are already well placed in the mid range, arguably providing performance far beyond what most consumers will need/want or even notice is better than...
  9. M

    6800 nu Fan problems

    I've had this agp xfx 6800 nu for 2 years now and just recently the fan speeds are sticking on 3d mode even when I'm just on the desktop. I've run driver cleaner and installed the latest nvidia drivers on their site but the problem stays. I've tried riva tuner 2.0, and setting the 2d and low...
  10. M

    Oops

    I've been burned by a hard disk failure before so yeah everything important is duplicated across my 2 HD's, mainly my music collection. When you say blow up, just dramatic wording I hope? I'd presumed it would just short the HD at the most... or am I totally wrong? And to clarify, the gap...
  11. M

    Oops

    I only recently realised my hard drive was limited to 33mb/s because I was using the old style IDE cables. While replacing them one of the pins got pushed back through the connector and detached itself from the solder on the other side :eek: I've lost a pin before on a hard drive years ago...
  12. M

    Too hot? (x2 3800+)

    Just got myself a manchester 3800+ x2 with the asrock dual sata2 agp/pci-e mobo. Was planning to overclock as i'd heard good things and i'd always had good enough results for me just using stock heatsink. So I used the aluminium heatsink and fan from my old amd64 2800+, set her all up, only...
  13. M

    Best games to get for my newly discoverd Sega Genesis?

    Landstalker! The best RPG on the system IMO, some of the best graphics too, they're making a remake of it on PSP right now. Shining force 1&2 are also great. Streets of rage, all of em Sonic 2 was my fave of the series
  14. M

    Tut Tut (7600 gt reviews)

    Check out these two reviews, see anything similar? http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2031&cid=3&pg=1 http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3374/38/ The mvktech review rips it off like a retarded school kid struggling with an assignment, couple of words changed, yeah right...
  15. M

    AGP and PCI-E combo

    Ok ok yes it's about a motherboard, but I'm desperately trying to find a socket 754 motherboard with both PCI-e and AGP slots in the uk, and can't find em anywhere? If anyone else could find one i'd be eternally grateful. The big sites don't even seem to have socket 754 boards anymore...
See more
Back
Top