Recent content by NoDamage

Same here, I am still waiting for my money to be credited for an order I cancelled on March 27th. I have emailed so many times, they always reply with "I have forwarded your request to the credit department" but I still have not been credited. This is getting ridiculous.

Cheaper? You can get an Opteron 165 for $267 from Monarch. And most of the steppings that have been shipping in the past month have been hitting at least 2.7 GHz, with 2.9-3.0 quite common as well.

Make sure "Measure card temperature" is checked under the Temperature Monitoring settings.

The Chuck patch is not so much a "patch" as a standalone driver. You can install it by itself without the rest of the driver package.

Both of you do not understand what virtual memory actually is. Like I already said, calling the contents of the page file "virtual memory" that is utilized in lieu of physical memory is a completely incorrect description. "Virtual memory" is not a data cache on your hard disk to be utilized when...

If CCC says Mem Usage is 100MB in Task Manager, then indeed 100MB of physical RAM is being utilized by CCC. CCC is not using your "virtual memory" in the way you think, and neither are Office or Photoshop. Again, "virtual memory" is not simply an extension of your physical RAM onto your hard...

That column doesn't mean what most people think it means either, actually it's probably more misleading than Mem Usage itself. VM Size refers to the portion of address space a process is using that happens to be backed by the page file. But if you look at some application and see 50 MB listed...

Well, that's not quite right either. Windows memory management is kind of a complicated topic to explain, but it isn't quite as simple as using the hard drive when the physical RAM runs out. Every application uses the virtual memory abstraction because that is how the operating system was...

While there is a big difference between virtual memory and physical pages, the "Mem Usage" column of Task Manager does correspond to the size of the working set of the process - the portion of virtual address space that is currently resident in physical RAM. This is somewhat irrelevant though...

Use ATITool and manually set your fan speed to 100% on the Accelero, it should help.

No you don't. The Chuck patch is a standalone modified 6.3 driver. Installing the Chuck patch by itself is equivalent to installing the "display driver only" download from the ATI website. That said, if you want Catalyst Control Center and the WDM drivers, you can download and install the...

I acknowledge the difference due to various ambient temps/clock speeds/voltages, as most users didn't provide that much information. But like I said in that thread, there are some surprisingly consistent results that can still be drawn across all of the different reports. The vast majority of...

I compiled a preliminary list of user reports over and AnandTech about a week ago: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1839956&enterthread=y The general result seems to be that most users aren't getting very good performance out of the VF900 on the X1900XTX...

These deals are incredible. The 7900GT can be combined with the 25% coupon and the $35 off $300 coupon for a total price of $229, and the X1900XT can be had for $351. Dell already did this about three weeks ago, and here it is again. I wonder if it will become a regular thing. :D

If you look a little harder you will also find many reports of the VF900 producing lackluster results on the X1900XTX. Right now it seems like there are more "poor" results compared to good ones.