Search results

I'd pick THIS up before it's gone... As far as unlocking, I am unsure of the potential. Not much choice now though since these cards are rare. edit: Personally, i'm not one to bank on pipe-unlocking especially if $$$ is an issue.

The only cons to the 205bw are backlight bleeding & trueblacks and that the DVI signal at times fluctuates. A few others on here reported this issue, but it may just be the stock cord. Other than that, I love mine very much.

Do the Scythes push more CFM than the Antecs?

Yeah I guess the release of Conroe kind of kills my argument a little more. Is that bench off of x-bit or bit-tech?

In most benchmarks, it seems to be the least affected by cpu speed. Better?

Yeah, games like FEAR for instance are completely GPU dependent. 7600gt all the way.

I missed that one - unhappy? Is that a serious comment?

I bet the 6200 TC would last 5+ years too.... lol.

I'll be damned :D

I like that Asus HS. Does it allow attaching a fan?

Sweet, mate. Enjoy.

Yeah its a hot mother. The Accelero lowered my temps by 10C or so.

I was having issues with this a few days ago - mine would flash like a mofo when I would bring my PC out of idle or on cold boot. It just flashed until I hit the switch button on the bezel for analog/digital. I switched from 6.6 to 6.8 Catalyst Drivers and it solved the problem.

I should've clarified: Titan Quest @ 1600x1200

CCC does this to me too with the 6.8 CAT's. MY memory seems to only OC up to 792 in CCC, so I just adjust the slider manually and it accepts it. I know I can get the card up to or past 700 on the core, so ATi Tray Tool would be a better option in both our cases.

Yeah it puts the card in perspective for me - makes me wish I would've saved up for the 1900xt!!

NO shit! Look at the Titan Quest results... All cards with 512mb get almost double the performance.

I've got a 6200 TC as a backup, although I think I might have to bust out Diablo II and Tie Fighter as I only own current-games and I doubt the 6200 would fair too well.

Do you get better performance with the air flow going up and away from the HS vs. the standard way?

I can only do 60hz on the 205BW with DVI connection (although its 1680x1050). I can't tell a difference in the 75hz of my previous 19" and 60hz on the Samsung.

Just loaded the 6.8's and changed the display option to manual.... Damn - CCC is almost instant w/ right click now. Thanks alot dude.

Yeah my previous card (6800gs) never flickered or anything... this x1800 does some strange stuff on my old LCD, although that was connected via analog. I may install the 6.8 cats. and see if it stops.

I recently purchased the ^above mentioned LCD and on cold boot or coming out of power-save/idle the screen flashes the desktop until I hit a button on the menu bezel. I have it hooked up via DVI - is it struggling between analog and digital signal or something? I installed the drivers for it to...

If the res. on the 19" were a bit higher It's totally a great deal. Its almost as big as the 20" and looks damn nice. Great buys I think (The new "BW" line from Samsung).

Totally. The ability to "weight" the G5 makes it fly across my mouse pad - its like ice dude. The MX518 served me well, but the G5 is here to stay. I like MS's scroll wheels... they're smooth unlike Logitech.

The first thing I did when I set mine up was go to InterfactLIFT.com... nice!

The floor display was very nice. The first one I took home was f*cked though. When I brought it back - the particular sales rep I talked to offered to let me buy the monitor first (dammit, of course) so if it had stuck or dead pixels again could exchange it there instead of making the trek home...

Not to continue debating - but thats an interesting argument you got there...

I commented as an indication that I think the G5 is a great mouse in comparison to anything Razer. I should have expounded ---> Razer feels like cheap garbage to me. If I was as concerned about mouse input like the OP, I would save up for something good instead of dropping $50 for junk. My...

I bought one a few days ago (205bw) and no banding issues so far. Side by side, this LCD seems to be nearly as big as the 215TW. The first one I bought had 3 stuck pixels, which prompted immediate return to CompUSA. I made them test another one for me in store before I left so I knew it was...

I will never use anything else :)

I have the 256mb version, but its not really a serious difference at 1280x1024 resolution.

We have similar systems, and Oblivion performance for me was awful (using 6.6 Cats). Your results with FEAR are consistent with mine though and it IS all over the place with the FPS.

Awesome, thanks.

* 3DMark06 performance improves as much as 22% on single ATI Radeon® X1000 series cards with 256MB of graphics memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing is enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products * Call of Duty 2...

Even with all that copper - the stock cooler was leaving my GPU idling at 60C.... I switched over to the Accelero X2 and its down to 50C at idle.

Glad I read this thread. Cool, thanks.

Grass and Canopy shadows on?

It would seem to be a driver issue. Personally, I haven't pushed my card to its fullest yet. ATI Tray tool didn't work for me as XP kept insisting that the card's drivers weren't installed. I'll probably try again with the 6.7 Cats. BTW, you and I have identical builds. How's Oblivion...