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I have a 6850 and alt-tabbing out of Everquest 2 takes about two minutes, no exaggeration. This affects me when I try to log into Ventrilo, for example. Rig is in my sig, ignore the old GPU. What is causing this?

So, core clock speed is the most important aspect when comparing cards? Or are they rated differently also.

I upgraded from a 4850 to the 6850 due to temperature issues a hot card is the last thing I want.

What is the difference between ATI stating theirs in processing units and Nvidia stating theirs in processor cores? Is it apples and oranges? What's better, ATI's 960 stream processing units or Nvidia's 336 processing cores?

I really don't want to OC my GPU, I want something that works and is fast right out of the box and is also not going to be bottlenecked by my CPU. Two issues I'm having are: it takes like two minutes to switch out of a game (via alt-tab), like if I want to check my email without logging...

I had an ATI 4850 that ran way too hot, fan constantly running. I ended up replacing it with this card. It's great, it's a noticeable improvement in performance, it runs about 30 degrees cooler and is thus quieter. But I'm still getting some weird graphical issues in games so I'm wondering...

The wonders of the internet: 3 different answers. I've tried all three at some point in my day and the control freak in me wants to install the chipset manually and in the "right order" (chipset, video driver, sound driver, windows updates). So that eliminates the Windows updates option...

Well, I guess that leads me to another question I find myself asking - is it best to use the driver right from the chipset manufacturer or from the mobo manufacturer?

I have this mobo. Do I even need to manually install the chipset driver or does Windows 7 install the best / most recent one automatically?

Or download all your drivers and save them to an external drive, and reinstall the OS :P I always do a fresh reformat when I get a new piece of hardware.

Current rig in sig. My 4850 is on the way out, constant running at 80 degrees under load I guess has taken it's toll. Options for replacement as far as I see it are one of the following two: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150447 or...

Update: I've been working with this stable OC listed in my last post for almost a month. no problems. I tried to set the memory multy from 2.4 to 2.5 and it seemed like all my data corrupted. I tried to run System Restore and that didn't work, so I reformatted. Actually, what I did...

Sold. Question then is: I need to directly connect my PC to the receiver via an ultra long toslink cable if, say, my PC is on the other side of the room? ;) Is there bluetooth capability here?

Thinking about this card. Anyone object or have negative feedback?

I can't find the equalizer / SRS "WOW" settings and other enhancements in WMP in Windows 7 (is it WMP12?). I feel like that may be a large part of why I can't reproduce the same good sound that I get in XP. I wonder how much of a noticeable difference I'd hear with the Forte and my Z-5500s?

Sorry to do this! I run XP, Windows 7 and if I can, and I would toy around with Ubuntu also. I currently have Logitech Z-5500s as my 5.1 speakers. I listen to music regularly and game occasionaly. I would need mic capability. I currently have a Creative X-Fi Platinum. My beefs with the...

So at this point, I'm Orthos stable for 8hrs at 1.35cpu voltage, 400 FSB with a 2.4 memory multiplier. Gameplan was to get Orthos stable then start installing Windows 7 RC and all sorts of software on that OS rather than XP so that I can actually use the 8gb of RAM~ So far, so good...

Ok, so I found it. 400FSB, with the voltages you suggest except for CPU voltage of 1.331 (cpu-z showing it's 1.296). I tried bumping it up to the next voltage notch and 405FSB but no dice, Orthos failed almost immediately. Temps under load are 57. I was hoping to go a bit higher since I...

At the moment I'm stable at 1.335 (I think?) CPU voltage, 395fsb, +.2 to MCH and +.1 to FSB voltage. Will try for more tomorrow~~ I'm basically bumping fsb up by 5 and running Orthos for 10 minutes and then repeating. If / when I see a failure I'll bump up the voltage 1 more and continue...

About the fan on the northbridge: that's the chip closest to the CPU, correct? I'm pretty sure I knew this already but I'm only asking because I'm not sure I can fit a fan on it, unless they have really small ones? I leave the side panel of my case open for better ventilation, if that makes...

Yep, I almost wish that is the case so I can get a new mobo:P I had an ASUS previous to this that couldn't OC worth a damn also, maybe I'm just bad luck.

I'm using the Zalman cooler in my sig along with AS5. I will reseat and reapply the paste, hopefully by tomorrow. I do run Coretemp along with Orthos as per the guide that I downloaded and I never saw load temps higher than 51, idle is ~38 or 39.

One question: I was bumping up the FSB by 5 like you said and running memtest until I got to 395, at which point I was still getting zero errors in memtest. I booted into Windows at 395, or tried to, and got a BSOD. I bumped the FSB down to 370 just to get into Windows, ran Orthos and...

I got it up to 395fsb with no errors on memtest, however, I tried booting into Windows after that and got a BSOD. I am back at 370fsb (which passed 4 tests of memtest) and am running Orthos at the moment. I will fine tune tomorrow - thanks for all your help so far!

Ok, so far so good. I have my BIOS settings set to "baseline" as per the instructions in that guide and I ran two passes of memtest with no errors.

Ok, so here is my consolidated thread. My rig: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128337 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231166...

Yea, I think initially they started out as different questions but they've kinda merged :p Will do this and be back shortly.

Update: I have installed all 4 sticks now, with a +.1 to MCH and FSB voltage, and +.3 to DDR2 voltage. I have my FSB at 333 with my DRAM multy at 3.0 rather than 3.2 (1000 instead of 1066) with timings of 5-5-5-18 and I was able to run Orthos for 15 minutes. Next I will try to raise the...

I have had nothing but problems with trying to OC the board in my sig. I have tried to OC with the RAM in my sig and no luck, any time I bump the FSB, even by 5, with or without voltage bumps, my PC won't even post. I'm running the most recent BIOS. I also can't OC with...

I went with stock FSB and +.2 to both FSB voltage and MCH voltage, +.3 to DDR2 voltage and I tried the 5-5-5-18 like you said, and no luck, Orthos still failing at 8 seconds. I also tried with 9x360 but there was no DDR multy for 2.6, there was 2.5~ like you said, there was also 3.33~ and I...

I set the MCH voltage and the FSB voltage both to +.2, with +.3 for the DDR2 voltage, along with 5-5-5-18 while leaving the FSB stock and no luck, Orthos for 8 seconds again. I also tried 360x9 with a 2.6 DDR2 multy but there was no such option, there was a 2.5~ and a 3.0. There were others...

My motherboard doesn't list this RAM as being supported: http://www.gigabyte.us/FileList/MemorySupport/motherboard_memory_ga-p35-ds3l_2.0.pdf Can anyone confirm this is not true?

Maybe I just have bad luck, I had an ASUS board before this that had all sorts of OC / voltage problems.

I checked and all power saving features in the BIOS are disabled. I ran Orthos and Core voltage in CPU-Z fluctuated between 1.168 and 1.184. VID in Coretemp is steady at 1.225. In other words, Coretemp reflects the voltage readout in my BIOS. Any other reasons why CPU-Z doesn't...

Raising the MCH voltage did not help, all other things equal. I do not see settings for MCH latch or tRFC in my BIOS, could they be called something different?

Coretemp reports a VID of 1.225V while the overclocking section of my BIOS reports a Normal VPU Core of 1.225; however, CPU-Z reports Core Voltage of 1.184V. Which do I go by if an overclocking guide says to bump the voltage up by .1V?

Update: I had 4 sticks of this RAM installed for a total of 8GB. Following this guide to set my BIOS to its "baseline" settings and setting the RAM timings to the advertised rates, I could not get Orthos to run for more than 8 seconds. I was also experiencing hard lockups and / or random...

Thanks guys, that guide on the GIGABYTE forums is amazing, I'm printing it as I write this. Will let you know how it works out. As it stands, I set all the settings for the CPU and RAM to default and my PC keeps locking up hard, so I'll need to work it out for sure.

See, that's the thing about the voltage, it doesn't specify the voltage, it only specifies how much to overvolt, i.e. stock, +.1 or +.2 Safe to assume stock is 2.0? I did manually set the timing to timings to 5-5-5-15. Manually set the clock speed to FSB x 320 (333x320 = 1066). With...

This RAM. Installs and recognizes no problem but it does not operate at the advertised timings. memtest was getting tons of errors after only 2% so I didn't even let it go any further. Anyone having this problem? edit: SORRY! I meant G-Skill!