I have the same issue with the weird resolutions on my 1080p monitor. when I use DSR there is a 1pixel border around my game window because it doesn't probably double the resolution from 1080p, it gives me some weird resolution that's several pixels off. The only DSR factor that gives me proper...
I think he's got a point about the hdd cage cooling.
I've noticed that with 2 drives stacked on top of each other in those bays (a necessity when you have more than two drives), temps start out fine, but after a long gaming session heat gets trapped down there and they start getting quite hot...
Was getting so very sick of my gpu's plastic cooler shroud vibrating at certain fan speeds and making an annoying rattling sound:
http://i.imgur.com/kODkh58.jpg
IMO the colors on this are fine, on par with just about any other TN panel I've used. After tweaking the settings of course.
The default color calibration on this monitor literally made me want to gauge my eyes out with a spoon. Asus clearly makes no attempts to make their displays look decent...
Even at 150% its a very, very big improvement in image quality though, it makes the textures look a lot sharper. I can run it just fine at 150% on a single 280x, I get 60-80 fps (occasionally drops to ~50 on certain parts of certain maps) with the following settings:
Texture Quality: Ultra...
I just bought one of these the other day. I have a biostar z68 mb with sata 3 and its set to ahci mode. Plugged the ssd into the sata 3 port, and installed windows 8 pro on it, and installed intel chipset/intel rapid storage/samsung magician software/drivers, and updated the 840's firmware. I...
Thanks :)
I had seen a lot of what I mostly assumed was misinformation like OMG THE 4870 TAKES 300 WATTS FULL LOAD so i was a bit nervous about whether I had enough juice.
Ok, I used that site and it gave me this: (with 90% processor TDP and 30% cap aging to be safe)
Reccomended: 405 watts
+3.3V +5V +12V
5.1 A 15.0 A 26.1 A
So I guess I'm safe?
Ok, I just upgraded from my 9600gt to a 4870. I only have a 450 Watt corsair 450VX psu. It seems to work fine so far, but will I have any problems down the road? is it good enough to power my machine with no issues? The psu has a single 33a 12v rail.
Machine:
95 watt Phenom 2 2.6 ghz 1.28v...