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Why? GFWL is mostly superfluous if you don't MP or care about achievements. I'm not here to bullshit people. The game WILL ask you to set up a GFWL profile, but if you choose to make an offline one, then into your Documents folder your game saves will go. End of story. As for actual game...

Well, you succeed at one thing: Being self explanatory.

First impressions - GFWL fiasco is overblown. It connects and activates; you don't need to do a thing if you're strictly playing SP in offline mode. Just make an offline profile and start playing. No inputting of keys/codes at all. It has no walk/run. You stomp around, or crouch. I guess if...

A 275? Sure. Post.

It's already been said, but let's say it again... 1 5850 now, add another later. Want more power than your pair of 5770s? Go through the hassle of selling off the 5770s. Get less than what you paid. A 5850 will hold its value because you won't be selling it to free up slots.

MSI 5850, flashed with MSI unlocked BIOS, 1000/1250. Vista 64. Cat 9.12. No problems, except for CCC sucking badly compared to nVCPL.

It appears that you and both of the folks in that Guru thread are running X-fire setups. One guy cleared it up (not sure how, vague description) but it looks like a new glitch introduced for x-fire folks. Just a guess... my single 5850 setup works fine with 9.12 and AB.

I don't like it being in the installer either, but just uncheck the box and all is well.

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I think this makes the most sense. If you went with dual 5770s, then later down the road if you decided you wanted more horsepower, you'd have to ditch both of them. It just sucks that the 58x0 prices have become so ridiculous, but at least the second one (if you decided you needed it later)...

So, is anyone playing the full game via their free Steam download yet? I haven't tried to preload it yet, or done much of anything really, but I notice it keeps getting pushed later and later... first it was Dec. 1, then Dec. 4, now it's Dec. 8. What's up with this? :confused: I haven't...

"AMD announced today that the Games for Windows Live Edition of DiRT 2 is now shipping" ...And the Steam Edition has been pushed to December 4. Not like I'm gonna slit my wrists over it, but still mildly perturbing.

Only ASUS comes out of the box with unlocked OC capability. MSI ships with locked BIOS, but they released an unlocked version. XFX has the best warranty, but if you flash ASUS/MSI BIOS to the card and then fry it, to the point that you can't reload the original XFX BIOS, you're hosed...

Noise? Waterblocks don't make noise. :D That's the real reason I switched to water. The ability to OC without needing a bunch of fans humming to a crescendo. My water setup is almost 4 years old now and hasn't really changed much in that span of time, same blocks, pump, rad, tubing, fans...

1000/1250 via unlocked BIOS, 1.287 load voltage. Using water to cool the core, spot aircooling for the VRMs. Not going to push mine any further... not really interested in upping the volts beyond where they're at.

Voodoo1/2, of course. GLQuake was almost like playing an entirely new game. 9700 Pro. I bought this out of necessity (dead Ti4600) but I was amazed at how much faster it was. X1900XT. This was the first card that could drive 1600*1200 on my old CRT without sacrificing a lot of image...

These are some great looking performance numbers. Tuesday promises to be fun!

First graphics card - an ATI Graphics Ultra Pro VLB, Mach32 based card. I can remember having to switch my 486 out of turbo mode for some older DOS games that freaked out on the VESA bus. Imagine that... underclocking. First 3D card was a Voodoo1, after a brief stint with a Rendition Verite...

tl;dr on the thread. But had anyone brought up the subject of pot smoke? Does Apple void for that? :) I'm a smoker BTW, but smoke does deposit and ruin interior surfaces. I only smoke outdoors or in a room with a fan. I don't allow my PC components to get gunked. Just my lungs.

If the deal auto-censors Rupert's right wing gobbledygook from my Google searches, then it's quite full of Win.

Reach out and touch... Teh Stupid? :confused: I'd like to reach out and touch Winona, but she's a Scorpio... I try to avoid such troubled waters as a general rule. ;) Getting back to World of Warcraft... Sorry, no clue. Never played it :)

Alrighty.

I thought AT's review was unnecessarily negative.* I thought some other reviews were unnecessarily positive too...* * I'm not in the market for this product... just personally reviewing the reviewers :)

+1 on AMD board partners and warranty/service needing improvement. But really, the rivalry is a good thing. There IS a need for all of this, because it all filters down to the low end eventually. That includes consoles, iPhones, BlackBerries, everything. Doesn't matter. The design obviously...

Hmm... looking more at this PCB... I don't think ATi is done yet. Have a look at this - I won't inline it as it's rather huge. Look at the PEG power connector area, plus locations like U27, U74, U90... unused real estate all over this board that's obviously designated for things like extra...

Perhaps I'm off on a tangent, but I'm curious about that AMD overvoltage app and if Brent/Kyle tried it out with the 5850 or the 5870 on the RAM side. Particularly curious about the 5850 since that's what I own, but it has the most spartan power circuitry of the 3 boards. 5970 OTOH... just...

I had a pretty strong feeling that the "low" clocks on 5970 had to do with TDP. But I also expected it to do better than a pair of CF'd 5850s, considering that the 5970's VPUs are fully intact. Count me out as a potential owner of this beast, since it wouldn't fit into my case anyway :) but...

Post. Might as well. Nothing wrong with free stuff... :)

What OC method did you use? Unless you flashed your BIOS to an unlocked version, then you must be using AMD GPU clock tool or some similar method. That'll nail the GPU at the OC speed since it disables the power saving. If you want to peg your GPU usage, try 8x supersampling AA. :D

5850 might not actually fit if 9.6" is all the room there is. The power connectors are on the end of the card (not the top) so once you plug them in, it's more like 10 inches of space that they take up. Take a look at some photos of one, and see if the power connectors are going to be in the...

Yup, it should allow up to 1090/1300. Those are the limits I get on my 5850 with it. Afterburner will still work if it doesn't see your card as an MSI, btw.

Well, efficiency of code over time doesn't equate to efficiency of code over space I suppose (though I'm not a coder). :) I'm also surprised by AB's bulk, but like I said, across a 4 GB system it's not much. Most games are still strictly 32 bit and won't utilize more than 2 GB on their own...

You're not mistaken; its RAM usage used to suck terribly. It's improved. I can see Catalyst gobbling up about 3.7 MB total system RAM on my box right now across 2 processes via Task Manager. Afterburner is actually much worse at 16.2 MB. But, while I have 8 GB total system RAM, it's hard to...

I'm sitting here on a 775 platform and looking at 1156/1366... I know that one is meant to be mainstream and the other meant to be for power, but I don't like the split. It's a weird gambit on the part of Intel. How to predict the lifespan of either platform? 775 may be a dead end, but who's...

What games? What monitor/res?

Well, you'll still need some way of tweaking AA, AF, and all that stuff. If you forego CCC, then you'll need another app like ATi Tray Tools or something in order to do that. CCC gets the job done, and if you simply ignore the Overdrive tab and use an app like Afterburner instead for OCing and...

Word. I still use it for that reason. Switching to a 5850, my overall Vantage score dropped considerably, but it was the PhysX test that tanked it. Looking at GPU score alone is the only way to purely compare a GPU switch. Not trying to knock nV or PhysX, but presence of a PhysX capable card...

It's reliable, insofar as it's probably as accurate as anything else. It polls the same things. But it seems to have an excessive amount of CPU overhead, at least according to Unwinder, the guy responsible for RivaTuner and the statistics portions of Afterburner and eVGA Precision. He wrote his...

Yep, I'm happy with mine (a 5850). I've been Green for 3 1/2 years but Ati deserves some love for this product... if only TSMC could spit out the silicon at a decent clip. From my perspective, as someone who overclocks and uses water to do so, the power efficiency makes my life a lot easier...

Ah, OK. I do overclock, so making sure I'm not melting the power components on my board does interest me :) Between Afterburner and your UPS readouts, I think you'll have all the info you're after.