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Asus 7950 DirectCU II Top 1050/1500 @ stock voltage Idle: 36C @ 10% fan speed (auto) Load: 69C @ 33% fan speed (auto) This is in a Fractal Define R2 with low airflow to keep things quiet. The gpu stays nearly silent under full load, despite the fairly warm case. My card appears to have a...

On my FX990 board they released a F6f beta that doesn't have the fix applied. You might want to check that the BIOS you loaded lists the updated AGESA code as a feature.

There has to be something very wrong going on, my 5850 is almost at stock speeds, and at 1920x1200 I never hit FPS as low as the OP, or rushaoz. I run everything but textures at ultra, no motion blur, no SSAO or HBAO, and post AA only. I don't play on 64 player servers so I don't have a direct...

With any luck its fixed and you can keep the CPU in the machine. I am wondering if you have set yours a 4.7GHz, and not turned off APM, which will actually downclock the chip the moment it is under load as you are above the TDP of the chip. I can run my chip at 4.5GHz+ at 1.3v if I don't...

I am not surprised that a 64 player server can bog down a quad core CPU. Your machine will be doing physics calculations for up to a couple thousand bullets/rounds per second, bullet impacts, any explosions, debris, and then add the sound processing for all of that. I even find that loading...

Maybe, I have an E-350 laptop that can play most games, but I haven't tried emulation on it. There are actually quite a few modernish games that can be played on an E-350. A large portion of current indie games on Steam will actually run without any issue as well.

Gigabyte F6f BETA reintroduced the problem, F6e still works perfectly. Hopefully the rest of you are fixed by now.

Odd, the link worked a little while ago, I already have it downloaded. Its a 4.4mb file, no idea what it isn't available now.

That sounds like it is working properly for you now. That is great.

Does it also fix performance issues in Deus Ex? I held off on purchasing the game since it didn't work properly at the time.

I actually decided against an i5-2500k build since the fx-8150 option was slightly cheaper and better in some heavily threaded situations. I had a malfunctioning Intel machine that went bad at the time of the FX launch so that sealed the deal for the AMD machine. It sucked hard when I had the...

The issue has been fixed by AMD already, Gigabyte has a beta BIOS for their 990FX boards that I have been running for a week and a half and the issues are resolved. My 990FXA-UD3 works with all the games I own that don't work for others with the F6e BIOS which has the AGESA 1.1.0.2 update. I...

I am sitting at 4.43GHz on all 8 cores on a FX-8150 with voltage sitting at 1.42v. I can and have gone higher, but I don't feel like increasing voltage any higher. Also, fixed BIOS might help me overclock as the AMD Overdrive workaround on the Gigabyte boards caused unpredictable voltages. It...

I just installed the updated F6e BIOS for my Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 and the crashing problem went away. So it looks like the updated AGESA code and CPU microcode fix the issue completely. So with any luck this update will appear for other motherboards shortly. As a benfit, I can now shut off...

I made a typo but cannot edit my post. The first line should read as follows: The author isn't trying to justify piracy or encourage it, but explain it in this instance.

The author is trying to justify piracy or encourage it, but explain it in this instance. There are reasonable suggestions at the end of the article to try and combat piracy in that market. Its the same issue of not making a game available for sale. If people want it and you won't sell it to...

I read that entire article and that quote is taken out of context. The article is not advocating piracy, its stating that the current business model for selling games doesn't always work in some markets. The real issue that is really being raised is the cost of the game versus the average...

That causes the CPU fans to run a bit slower, but it spins up the fans to max if the processors hit 60C. It just lowers the idle speeds of the CPU fans.

The dual Xeon motherboards use SSI mounting holes, the heatsinks attach to the case and not the motherboard. The problem that causes is with mounting the motherboard in a standard ATX case. The entire top right corner of the board would be unsupported unless you modify motherboard standoffs to...

Go into bios and go to hardware monitor (iirc) and change the thermal settings to "Quiet (4 pin)" or "Superquiet (4 pin)". Even the "Workstation (4 pin)" setting for fan control might be enough to make the system a lot quieter for you. If your stock Intel coolers are the 1U/Active with the...

How does S.T.A.L.K.E.R. run on your new system, and what do you think of the game?

I am a little suprised that your system draws that much from the wall for power. I also just built a new system for some more gaming and video encoding, I have two less hard drives though. What is the raid card you are currently using?

I have had the same experience ordering products from them to be shipped to Canada.

You can also order the headphones from Audiocubes and the shipping to Canada is reasonable.

The ATH-A55 is the model that was replaced by the ATH-A500 if I recall correctly. I would recommend that you get the A500, I have a pair and I find them to be excellent.

A balanced amp requires balanced headphones, and a balanced source. Your X-Fi is not a balanced source, so I don't see why you would need to spend all that extra money on getting a balanced amp and headphones.

A good and reasonably priced amp might be a Pimeta, and though there may be many other headphones out there at his price point, he has head and enjoyed the Sennheiser HD 650. A good bet might be to try out the HD 580 which are similar sounding, they will be a bit different, but close and cheap...

Or he could look at Sennheiser HD-580 headphones and a reasonably priced amp and get that great sound for a very reasonable price.

Its called the HS-300, its even shown in the quote that digitalmind posted from one of his posts in another thread.

No, that is a new model from Beyer Dynamic that is said by them to be the DT770 used in an aviation headset. It is not a clip on microphone for a DT770.

I see suggestions for the Beyerdynamic DT770 and DT990, and I may be wrong, but these headphones are quite hard to drive, especially the DT990. If the original poster has heard the HD-555 headphones from Sennheiser and really enjoys them, then maybe trying to use them in their setup for a few...

They do not leak sound at moderate volume levels, now if you amp them and crank the volume so that they are dangerously loud, they will leak a some sound. If you are asking about allowing sound in while you are using them, then they will allow moderately loud sounds in, as in a loud computer...

There is an issue with your solution, a video card with 64mb of memory will not be using a single chip for all 64mb of memory, neither will a 64mb DIMM of DDR2. Your first obstacle would be to source the exact part that is used on the X-Fi with the extra memory and attempt to use that as a...

BMWlover, you should also try looking at the Audiotechnica ATH-A500 headphones if you are aiming to spend around $100 on headphones for gaming. They do not require an amp, though if you like your games to be quite loud then you might need some amplification to get the volume levels up. I find...

At a $106 shipped to the US do the Audiotechnica ATH-A500 come close enough to your price range? Very very good set of headphones, and for any game with a sound engine that can do surround in it, especially the Source engine and BF2, the sound placement is excellent, from any sound source too...

You have an Nforce 4 motherboard and an older revision X-Fi most certainly. You either need a bios flash or the card sent back to Creative labs for a firmware flash. This is a long standing issue with this combination of hardware, and those are the two fixes for the problem.

The problem is that it doesnt happen all the time on the same model of board. That means there is a chance it will work, and a chance it won't. A better chance for you that it will work than it won't most likely, its up to you if you want to try your luck.

Well, I finally got another response from Creative Labs tech support, and its the exact same message they have sent me twice before now. So this is three identical messages from their tech support, only broken up by a message asking me try something that they say I have not tried, which was...

A bios update does not solve these problems Terra. That bios update was only for the original problem of the X-Fi causing constant reboots or being detected as many PCI devices. So no, a bios update does not fix this problem, and that same problem is also fixed by a firmware update on X-Fi...

I already said I don't care if I am in the majority or minority of users having issues with their card. The real issue is that many users are stuck with cards that do not function as designed. This is an issue with Creative Labs and their support, not with some article on the web about it. I...