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I use Catalyst 6.8 with chuck patch and have just borrowed Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow. It doesn't let me run with AA enable, no matter what I do. I find that a bit odd. The game itself doesn't seem to support AA, but even when I force CCC to go 4xAA, nothing shows up in the game. Jaggy as...

Good luck enjoying your dead end technology that devs will not develop for. Just like the ageia PhysX. There won't be a glory day of third party ASICS. It will be Intel or AMD that will make a new kind of CPU which is build from many discrete units if anything happens in that direction...

Ive tried to convince supergee, but he is adamant that such a device is a good idea. And for the record, I do not believe the future will be specialised ASICs, but a redefintion of what the CPU is. You will still have one product doing your calculations, but perhaps it will have the work...

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Ultima VII, Daggerfall, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Redneck Rampage - now that game WAS fun. As in actual guffaw. Wing Commander, Railroad Tycoon, Master of Magic. There are loads.

So why not just use the second core of the new cpus with two cores? You will end up writing parallel processing no matter what. Aiming for the second core makes life SO much easier for the devs.

I don't care for the broken english, it is the broken arguments that is the problem. I don't need 3 pages to make my point. AI is not something you need to make extra cards for. The calculation needed is sufficently taken care of by the central processing unit. The "problem" with AI is much...

You might also have problems with your card. Im not sure how much you overclock with 6.8s, but on my setup it is flawlessly running with ati tool 0.25 beta 15. You did upgrade to the new beta right? How hot does it get? dont forget that Atis Overclocker will scale down your clock if the card...

You just described the way Windows works overall...

You don't have much of a clue do you, supergee? Physics and graphics rendering are running off well documented principles. You can make a whole library of routines, say, DirectX or OpenGl, that does graphics for you. When it comes to physics processing, you got the law of physics. Ever heard of...

Well, Im an AMD man too. Have been for years, but if I was to build my system today, I would definitely check out my options on a Conroe rig. If AMD beats intel with their next cpu family, well good for AMD. But right now, what concerns me is which computer I can build that will give me...

Your Arctic silver will not cut off 8C no matter how long it sits. You either need to reapply your AS5 in thinner ammounts, lap your heatsink or be more conservative in your OC.

Not to mention that physics are based on a well known phenomenon. Physics. Where as AI, you just cannot make an all-purpose "AI" chip. AI is made up of clever programming, not fancy chips. The "AIPU" is a dodo even before its hatched. The best all-purpose chip you get for AI is a cpu or other...

My X1900XT idles at 55c, so consider yourself off easy :)

I cannot get AA to work in Quake 4. No way. It works fine in Doom 3 however. Bah. Quake 4 is a poor game anyway, I regret buying it :) If I try to force AA in Battlefield 2 with the Ati Tool, it completely removes AA. But if I let CCC manage it, I get my AA. Weird. For the record, I never...

It is completely smoke and mirrors. That thing will never fly. The application of AI is very different from game to game. AI is parts black magic and parts art. AI is just a common word we use for all the dirty tricks and clever programming that is being done behind the scenes for a comptuer...

The problem with CCC is that by default it runs like crap. But you can configure the control center to load and respond much faster by changing these settings: Preferences -> Hide splash screen Preferences -> Select a skin -> system skin Display Options -> Use Manual detection only (I...

That is definitely not the case. The pads might not be as efficient as dedicated metal heatsinks, but they do help dissipate more heat than just air. and there isn't room for sinks beneath the cooler anyway. I also doubt that the heat from the gpu transfers via the copper sink to the aluminump...

Your PSU is fine for your needs. I run a 450W Antec with an Athlon X2 3800+ OC@ 2,4 GHz, Radeon X1900XT (power hungry) and two hds, and a burner. No problems. Only if you consider a SLI or Xfire setup should you consider upgrading. If you can get 36 Amps on the 12 rails combined, you are good.

Thermalpads aye, they are supposedly shite as well. But do they need replacing after you do the thermal pasting on the core? I am considering doing a lapjob on the copper heatsink to get that core cooled proper. I just worry that the thermalpads are useless once they have been removed.

You could try doing a lapjob. I am having heat issues with my X1900XT. It gets to near 85C on load. So I read a post by a guy who took off his X1900XT and discovered that the copper interface on the heatsink was very rough. He did a lapjob on it, and after that he didn't break 74C on peak...

Has to do with wafer yields. The cream of the crop is the middle chips. Those have least errors and the largest tolerances. The further out to the circumference, the more errors or less tolerance the chips have. Sometimes when they grade chips, when yields are mature and good, some of the outer...

Do I need to apply HS5 on the GPU only, or should I put some on the RAM chips as well? I haven't removed the heatsink yet, I need to buy a new bottle of cleaning alcohol at the drug store. But as I understand from review of the Zalman, there are RAM chips too surrounding the GPU. I assume they...

Hmm, I might want to do that. Right now my gpu peaks at 83-84C when scanning for artifacts, and run 81-82 when playing Oblivion or Call of Duty 2 (the most torturous of my dx9 games). I can OC to XTX speeds with no issues really, it doesn't even get hotter. But if I could cut 3-5c off just by...

When I play Oblivion I am quite satisfied when my card can draw an average of 30 fps with HDR and 4xAA running (using the chuck patch). It is quite sufficient for this type of game, and beyond 30 fps things feel "nice". But when gaming BF2, I would be feeling the pain when fps dips below 50. All...

[EDIT] Ah, so much for reading the thread. 6.7 is an oversight ^_^ In my Catalyst Information Center it says I am using Cat 6.7 O.o. Is that an oversight on their behalf? Because I most assuredly downloaded a file that was called catalyst 6.8.

Add Silent Hunter 3 to the list. This time the line is green. Yeah, I might want to. Anyone here that has either of these games and can run with AAA and no strange lines?

Me too. For unknown reasons Arctic Cooling decided to make the odd Accelero "lets fry that motherboard" cooler that blows all the hot air right onto your motherboard. Instead of the old solution where the air was blown out of the case, at the very least.

Specs are irrelevant, this is a driver issue. The X1900XT I have runs stock speed. It is not an artifact, but a thin, 1 pixel wide line to the left and top, as if the picture has been framed. It appears only in these two games so far, I am going to see how it affects BF2. It was not present in...

After Cat 6.5 install I notice a thin blue edge to the left and top of my screen when playing Farcry, and a orangy ditto on my screen when playing Half-Life 2: Episode One. Both when Adaptive Anti-aliasing is turend on. When it is turned off, I notice no such thing. Im defo sure they were not...

What I did was to install cat 6.5s, then simply point the device driver installation to search for the ATI T200 driver in a folder where I kept an unpacked set of WDM drivers that had them included.

No its not. It will heat up your system and especially your motherboard due to its wonky design.

The more I read about aftermarket cooling for X1900XT, especially Accelero X2 and the Zalman 900F, the more convinced I am that keeping my stock cooler was smart. This is scary stuff! Ok it makes a proper din when I play games, but Im using phones anyways. I wonder why Arctic Cooling left...

I must admit it sounds ridiculous that your card should draw 30 amps. At 12 volt. Blimey. Thats like, 360 watts. The card would melt. I run a PowerColor X1900XT on a system with a Antec SmartPower 450w, which is rated for 34A on the combined 12v rail. And I have no problems what so ever. In...

And I say forget about upgrading the cooling. The stock cooler is pretty good, albeit super noisy. But the alternative such as Accelero or the Zalman is giving you just as many problems as they claim to solve. Such as dumping loads of hot air right onto your motherboard instead of disposing it...

You most conveniently forgot to tell us what PSU you have. When you ask questions about your PSU, why do you hide its name and make from us?

I have installed two Corsair TwinX PT4000 1 GB modules on my motherboard. It always autosetups to 333 MHz, and that annoys me. I can override it to the proper 400 MHz, no problem. System is stable etc. Should I fuss over this or just ignore it?

I think you guys either gets things mixed up or just cant read. ATI Tool is a no nonsense and very basic overclocking utility. Current version is 0.25 Beta ATI Tray Tool is super advanced ATI card tweaker with color profiles that loads on games etc, and what not. However, it doesn't seem to...

So, how does the card then go to high clock mode when not gaming? Do you have to make profiles for every game you want it to run at 625/725 in, or can it somehow manage that by it self?

Whew! :) Can I underclock it even further for "2d" speeds? Seeing that 500/600 is probably overkill in it self for 2d.