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I should also add that this morning when it locked up, it was sleeping and not idle. I hit the power button and the computer came back alive but without the monitor, keyboard and mouse. I disabled the Intel gigabit LAN adapter completely for the time being and I'll see if it makes any difference.
I also have this same exact issue. I've tried everything listed in this thread so far and nothing has solved it. I was just about to call in an RMA for it, but now with the Intel issue it looks like I'll be sending it back anyways.
It's so awesome to see Asus support folks on the forum like...
The card performs fantastic in-game, nothing that would make me think there are any issues.
Thanks for your reply, Lorien. I wasn't really trying to benchmark with furmark, I was just playing with a few utilities and I was curious about the results. I ran it again with PowerTune at +20% and...
Last week I picked up a new MSI HD 6950 for the first part of my system rebuild. I ran furmark against it and compared my score to my friends 6850, and he did significantly better than me. Roughly 2,000 points more and 20fps average. Here was my result:
This is with the following...