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    7770 enough for 1680x1050?

    I'm on the Canadian west coast so I pretty much always use . Currently looking at this MSI OC'd version for $115CAD: http://www./products/index.php?sku=68459 Edit: Huh, the name of that store is censored it seems.
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    7770 enough for 1680x1050?

    Thanks guys. She's going to keep the same monitor for the forseeable future so I think the 7770 will do.
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    7770 enough for 1680x1050?

    I am going to be building a new mini-ITX system for my girlfriend to replace her current collection of hand-me-down parts. She's currently using my old 4870X2 which is loud, hungry and probably overkill for the resolution she games at (1680x1050). The power consumption figures on the 7770...
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    WoW flickering issue on 6970

    So I went to change my config file back to DX9 and discovered that the line for DX11 had disappeared so I guess I was running in DX9. Setting it back to DX11 seems to have resolved the flicker issue and the game runs better in general. Alt-tab and login freezing still happens though.
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    WoW flickering issue on 6970

    I will try DX9 tonight and see if the offending areas behave the same.
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    WoW flickering issue on 6970

    Fullscreen, yes. I never had either of these issues with my 4870X2. Also the flicker I’m describing isn’t actually on the textured object. There will be say, fire in the bottom left of the screen and I’ll see the occasional flicker of a distorted fire texture up in the top...
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    WoW flickering issue on 6970

    My new 6970/2600K setup is working great except for a couple of issues in WoW. First, more minor problem, is that on login and sometimes on tabbing back in to the game, it will freeze for a few seconds and then do what seems like a GPU reset, sometimes twice in a row. Second problem is that...
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    Come across any 6970 reviews w/WoW benchmark?

    I play at 2560x1600 and am not entirely satisfied with the performance of my 4870X2. It does appear to scale to the two GPUs but not terribly well and I get a bit of stutter. I would like to go single GPU with my Sandy Bridge upgrade but I'm torn between a 6970 and a GTX580. I would like the...
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    Borderland players with ATI?

    Huh, I get 40-70fps with Dynamic Shadows and Ambient Occlusion OFF and 20-40fps with them ON with my 4870X2 @ 2560x1600... doesn't seem right.
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    borderlands

    Could be the default FoV. Low FoV tends to make me somewhat motion sick.
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    borderlands

    My understanding is that AA can be forced in DX9 UE3 engine games only with nVidia cards. You can try with an ATi card, but it doesn't do anything.
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    borderlands

    I like the game but the UE3 engine always bothers me. No game I've played that was built on UE3 has felt quite right. (And lack of AA sucks too)
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    4870x2 xfire and wow... not overkill :)

    WoW does take advantage of multiple GPUs. It's pretty obvious when I disable Cat AI and my FPS drops considerably. It does seem like the engine scales really terribly to higher resolutions though (talking 2560x1600 here). I get better FPS is just about everything short of Crysis than I do in WoW.
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Preview @ [H]

    Might be a while for true dual core but there's a rumour that the 5870X2 will be two dies on the same package ala C2Qs and Pentium-Ds.
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    XFX To Sell ATi Based Video Cards

    Nearly all 4870X2s already have black PCBs.
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    4870x2 High Pitch Noise

    Mine does that very slightly. I didn't notice it at all with the stock cooler making a racket but now that it's watercooled, I do notice it if I'm paying attention.
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    NVIDIA Shows PhysX Comparison

    The video isn't showing PhysX vs software physics at all. The physics objects on the right are simply absent on the left. The entire presentation is artificial and meaningless. "Hey look, our physics is better than no physics at all". Yeah, no shit.
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    Ati catalyst 8.12 beta

    These drivers fixed my L4D problems. No more stuck at idle clocks / single GPU mode. The bad news is that although Crysis: Warhead runs a little faster, I get flickering textures/lighting now. L4D is much more important to me that warhead so I'm sticking with these for now.
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    Card for Light Gaming

    And the 4850 is a crippled 4870, and the GTX 260 is a crippled GTX 280, thats just how lower priced SKUs are made.
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    Card for Light Gaming

    There's the 4830 as well. Priced similarly to the 8800/9800 GT.
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    Ati catalyst 8.12 beta

    Hopefully these will fix my 4870X2 reverting to idle clocks & single GPU after every map load in L4D.
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    1st WC setup checklist & questions

    Got my rig all set up now. Had a minor leak in when testing from insufficiently tighten fittings on my GTZ but it's all working well now. Went with a Feser 480 in the end so my setup is extremely similar to CaptainSoble's. I have some questions about stress testing and temps now. My Q6600s...
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    Logitech G5 vs. G9 gaming mouse

    I went from a G7 (essentially a wireless G5) to the G9 and I don't regret it at all. G9 feels very nice. Like the above poster, I have smallish hands.
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    1st WC setup checklist & questions

    So I understand that loop order doesn't matter a great deal so long as the res is before the pump. Most setups I see have the CPU as the first block but with the pump in the bottom front of the case below the res that will be mounted just behind the drive bays, it seems like I would use less...
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    4870X2 Left 4 Dead problems

    It seems to me that it must be sitting at idle clocks as well since I believe even a single 4870 should get better fps than 30-40 in L4D even at 2560x1600
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    4870X2 Left 4 Dead problems

    I hope that is true unrealsword.
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    4870X2 Left 4 Dead problems

    I'm running Left 4 Dead at 2560x1600, 4xAA and everything else on max and after each level loads I get around 30-40fps until I tab out and back in to the game, then I get 70-120fps. I have to do this on every single map load, is anyone else having a similar problem? :mad: I'm using Cat...
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    4870x2 Help please

    Neither Crossfire nor SLI work in windowed mode iirc
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    1st WC setup checklist & questions

    NCIX has the XSPC 4870X2 blocks in now and they're the cheapest of the lot and look pretty good as well. I think I will go with one of them over the DD one since I have not heard anything negative about them. As for not cooling the NB; My X38 NB can get over 50C at stock voltage, which has...
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    LG W3000H & 4870 x2 problems

    I have EXACTLY the same sparkly snow issue with my W3000H + 4870X2. Sometimes randomly it will be gone but it is usually there. Did not occur with my Crossfired 3870s and doesn’t seem to show up with the 4870X2 if no driver is installed.
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    1st WC setup checklist & questions

    Should be lots of room for the 655 in the TJ07. I wanted to go with a beefy pump for future-proofing in case I build a Tri-SLI monstrosity or some such that requires it. edit: Also considering 2x Swifty MCW60s instead of the full cover block for my X2. I've seen it done before and would...
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    What are the normal operating temp of the radeon hd 4870 1GB?

    The hotter core on my 4870X2 idles at 72 and hits 85-90 under load. I am fairly certain these are normal temps.
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    1st WC setup checklist & questions

    After considering it several times in the past, I’ve finally committed myself to setting up a WC system. What I’m looking for is feedback on my selection of parts and verification that I haven’t overlooked anything. ---Components to be cooled--- C2Q Q6600 X38 NB on Asus Maximus Formula...
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    [H]appy with the 4870x2? ***Sign Up Here***

    My minor issue seems to have fixed itself somehow. Just finished playing Crysis a second time and then played though Warhead and been playing lots of TF2. Quite satisfied with how the hard is handling 2560x1600.
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    Crysis: Warhead Gameplay Perf and IQ @ [H]

    Hrmmm, on the system in my sig I played through Warhead with all settings on Gamer @ 2560x1600 with no AA and it ran well enough to be playable (20-30fps usually) and by all accounts my system is worse than the [H] test machine.
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    4850 + warhead = wtf?

    I haven't played Warhead yet but in original Crysis my 4870X2 does this in DX10 on the last part of the game on the carrier deck. It pauses for longer and longer periods until it freezes up permanently. Everything before this part of the game is fine and running in DX9 solves the problem. I...
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    4870x2 snow artifacts

    I'm using the 8.9 betas currently. They have the problem, and so does the 8.8s, 8.7s and 8.6 hotfix drivers. So it's not just the 8.8s for me.
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    4870x2 snow artifacts

    That guy's artifacts are much worse than mine and pretty different as well. I doubt mine would show up in photographs. It's also not random at all like his seem to be. If it fire up Photoshop and make a near full screen image of a black to white gradient, the snow is visible from about 2%...
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    4870x2 snow artifacts

    Hrmm... So I RMA'd the card and my replacement is acting the same way. How irritating. I hope they didn't just send me the same card back. I'm not sure what else I should try. It seems like I've eliminated any single piece of hardware as being the problem. 3870 CF + 30" LG + ATi drivers...
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    Building a New Rig Recommendations Plz

    You'll hear horror stories of both ATi and nVidia drivers, it's a bit of a gamble. That said, most of the recent driver complaints pertain to the 4870X2. There are some pretty good deals on both the GTX260 and the GTX280 around, if you can find a GTX260 for less than a 4870, it'd be the better...
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