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Dang, Newegg all the way down there huh? In my experience, Amazon is quick but it's usually a generic copy paste template of useless information.

Lol Kyle has always reminded me of Randal from Clerks. "This job would be great, if it weren't for the fucking customers"

keep your friends close, your enemies closer. I would gladly go to war with any man who I caught fucking up my car.

To the whiners: The law isn't there for you, the law is there to make revenue. :rolleyes: To the enthusiasts: Won't be long before things like PhantomALERT start tracking these as well.

I don't know if this has been posted here but I thought this little video experiment was quite interesting. Enjoy. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSfifE2Domo

well get that processor up to 5k ghz already and report back your score. :p lets see if you can break 10k :D

Here's my 3dmark11 p-score with unmodified x-fire 6950s (other system specs are in sig). http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n222/kinhwilliams/6950-xfire-score.jpg I just unlocked the shaders just last night and it give me a whooping 200 extra points, lol :p I was guessing if you had your...

Hey thanks for the response guys about he x-fire question. I did eventually figure that out last night that i didn't have to pull out any card so long as I disabled crossfire. However I was struggling to flash my cards and after much ado, I eventually figured it out was a combination of my...

I'm going to try unlocking my 6950 shaders and overclocking tonight. Is it better to pull the crossfire setup out and do them one at a time or can these apps do both bios at the same time? :confused:

How close they measure the noise levels doesn't matter whether it's realistic enough, just so long as the other cards they graph are measured at the same distance to give accurate relativity to competing cards. As long as they've done that, the 6990 is one loud ass leaf blower! :eek:

thanks for the link.:) Looks interesting. Will check it out.

I find it annoying too. even worse if you set it to GPU scaling, it sometimes breaks their overscan settings and makes it non-adjustable. Nvidia doesn't have anything like that (overscan) and it's a smart move. Ati has been carrying this "feature" for years and it's just plain ridiculous...

got it. I'm new to ATI too. :o :)

AB?

They do still run a little bit warm. Before I was using a sabertooth x58 motherboard which ran the two cards right against each other. I could hear them spin up under load during something intense like Crysis. But since then I've switched back to my Asus p6t mobo which spaces them apart...

I see - makes sense. I opted for the 2gb ones even though I only play at 1080p not only because I can unlock the shaders but also because I figure you can always force alot of image quality improvements for games where the framerate is overkill which will use alot of VRAM. Over 1gb I would...

I don't know how well they cool but there's one thing you should know if you missed it, those only have 1gb of VRAM

Here's my score with a couple reference 6950s in crossfire (stock) for your reference. System specs are in sig.

this is why we need a 55" or bigger WQUXGA paper thin OLED display already. A screw it, go ahead and just put the matrix jack in to my head for a real "retina" display. :D

I haven't measured but I'm guessing my head is about 5 feet away with my current seating arrangement. I know to a lot of ppl they say that's too close to a screen that big but I love getting sucked in. Ideally I'd want a display big enough to where I can no longer see the monitors frame in my...

don't knock it till you try it. With fast moving images (as with most first person shooters) 1080p is plenty! Add to that, the resolution allows for alot more eye candy to be turn on without hindering frame rate. And once you get used to a large screen, you end up wanting even bigger! I...

I agree, I'd love to upgrade to WQXGA but... until they make them in 46" or bigger panels, I can never go back to such a puny screen. Sucks the immersion factor right out of the game. Not to mention, leaves alot to be desired when watching movies.

I concur. It's sad to see as I remember them being one of the innovators to adding realistic sounds in-game back in the 386 days, before them we only had Ad Lib. But over the many years, they have eventually lost me as a customer even though I kept giving them a second, third, fourth, I lost...

btw my two sapphire cards came in. Very nice touch that they threw in hdmi cables (even though I didn't need it). Especially considering how much cheaper they are than the other reference card selections (i think MSI was the only other one as cheap). Also just a little tid bit, I was able...

Followed your instructions exactly and it doesn't work. Crysis still incorrectly chooses 24hz. Enabling "GPU Scaling" causes Crysis in full screen to show up as a blank screen in 1080p. If it make the game windowed with alt-enter the display comes back. I have to leave this unchecked...

Wow! great price on that one too! I'm really blown away as to how cheap these 6950s are.

It's when you use an HDTV as your PC display through HDMI. A lot of HDTV list 1920@1080 @24hz as their native or best resolution through the EDID. Some games get confused and use 24hz instead of 60hz when choosing 1920x1080 resolution because of it. Very few game allow you to actually chose...

LOL! I remember those cards. They were like the number one cards listed on steam for a long while there. Takes me back.:) Well that's all i needed to hear - I just ordered a couple with added 1 day shipping for 3.99, should be at my door tomorrow. :D Thanks again!

that's good to hear! Sounds like you got pretty decent overclock too. :cool: I wasn't sure about the brand name Sapphire but I might just go with that one then. Thanks Nalc!

Thanks Samuel. It appears I have alot of options then since that's all I can find, the reference design. I was hoping to find one non-reference design, a shorter length one to run as the bottom card. That allows a staggered configuration so the top card's intake is unobstructed. I was...

Well I can have them price match it (they price match online now)... if these XFX cards are the best choice. and trust me, LOL it's not like fry's is hurting with the amount of money I spend there per year. :rolleyes: They practically know me by name. so no, I don't carry any guilt what so...

Hey guys, It's been awhile since I've gone with an ATI graphics solution (9800pro). besides the occasional trial run, with each gen upgrade, I always settled on Nvidia. But things have changed. :o So right now I have two xfx 6950s from frys in my system and everything is peachy. Performance...

yup, it definitely changes pitch and fluctuates when I'm doing minor stuff on the desktop. almost like it's "talking" to me. I dont like it.:o But unless a badass deal on an alternative PSU pops up before my return window, I'll probably just live with it.

right. and I'm of the same scenerio as you dude thinking the exact same thing when I first read this thread a while back. Someone who's using a setup that's suppose to work (sabertooth x58 listed as ok) and everything was fine for a few weeks then all of a sudden, I can't seem to get any of my...

lol! these threads are funny

I always have it disabled. One of the things I tried though was enabling it. Shit I tried every possible bios setting practically. You don't wanna know how many hours I've invested trying different bios settings...

This is not an acceptable fix. It shouldn't be for you either. What if you want to SLI another card sometime later? Now you're stuck with only a 1 card solution. Here's been my experience so far regarding this issue: http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1036917126&postcount=56 and the...

I know one manufacture suggested it, but I don't think this has anything to do with the hdmi audio drivers or 3d drivers... When I'm experiencing the windows login lock up issue, uninstalling those specific drivers doesn't resolve the issue (i wish it were that simple).

Follow up to my post #56: So I just returned my 580s and got my first gtx 570 in today. Swap out the cards, boots in to windows, generic vga drivers appears to be used while my already installed nvidia drivers do it's thing. It detects the new 570 prompts for reboot. Great! reboot I did and...

Hey John, I have JUST received my replacement ax850 for that exact same reason from Amazon today. The original power supply seems to be working fine under all loads but that coil whine is unbearable. It's not insanely loud but my ears pick up on things like capacitor whining and other high...