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OH...SNAP!! That was like 2 snaps up, in a circle, then a hail Mary, with a drive by shooting finisher!

.......Dude.... That is equally awesome. I have to admit, there are some pretty creative folk here.

Since I prefer no AA, and run 8X AF, I'll keep my max textures at 1080p for a long time. That's because I have a 7950 (1100/1400) with 3GB of VRAM. Believe what you want. I've been in this game long enough to have bought the original Voodoo card, followed by Quantum 3D's dual Voodoo2 12...

That pic is so appropriate and full of awesome....

Exactly. I've heard the argument that .5X VRAM was plenty. Im talking in ALL these cases of max (mid to upper) card memory available 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB In every case, someone would argue that 1/2 as much was plenty, or that some middling amount (768MB instead of...

Citation, please.

Any benchmark based upon GPU will work. You are just looking for the point where you stop gaining performance. Just to be sure, once you see lack of gain, re-run then bench at least once to verify it isn't just a bad sample.

Link is broked at work here. The BIOS switch is on the Vapor-X, and maybe the FLEX. If you move it, my understanding is that it will move the voltage up, as well as core clocks. I have seen people post saying that it also locks the voltage when done. Mine is set that way, and it is not an...

For quick and easy OC without worry, you can just go with base clock +100, mem clock + 40, and the power slider to +20%. I do manual fan at 50%, but that part is up to you. This is n CCC, with stock voltage. In trixx, I would focus on the fan profile. START it at 40% at min temp, awork up...

7950- the performance is so much more future proof. ~$40 for an extra year use, i'd bet.

My daughter's mice squeak if they get hungry. Have you tried putting cheese or crushed oreos into the fan intake? It may actually be the page using some GPU accel (Flash, etc), and fan speed ramping up. If so, then dust may be the culprit. That, or slight looseness/misalignment of the fan...

Look: It is TWO(2) 1GB cards running crossfire in a single housing. EVERY texture is duplicated on the cards. This means that if you have 512MB of textures, you use 512 PER CARD. If 4X AA at the given resolution costs you 512MB, that is also PER CARD.

My 7950 is not loud at all. Power draw is quite low, except in-game. Is the OP gaming 24/7, or is that small wattage difference just your gentle nudg towards buying a lesser card? BTW mine's at 1050 Mhz, so pretty OC'ed. I think you're splitting hairs here. I actually believe that you...

Physx isn't free. If you use it, you WILL lose some overall performance. I don't see any 2GB card as being very forward-looking, at all. I would chime in with the 7950 ( mine's a vapor-x, Sapphire), but it has a few less (112 vs 128) texture units, which can subtly limit post-fx processing...

^This^ .... and I will add that I consider the interoperability of various processors from AM2+ to AM3 as one of my favorite aspects of the company's lineups. I could be wrong, but I recall Intel forcing several board changes in the same time frame, if you were staying "current". It seems...

Perhaps you should turn on Vsynch. It sounds like your frame rate is skyrocketing, causing the GPU to fully load, which induces thermal increases, leading to throttling. Vsynch will not hurt you, and will resolve the visual "tearing" effect caused otherwise. In FC3, use the render ahead and...

There was no need to even speak on your points. It is like walking into a car discussion about how some guy likes his 4.9 liter inline six that he swapped from his 2.3 turbo. He says he likes the experience, but you have to come in talking about the obvious 80 or so HP loss, as if his...

They have 6 and 8 CORES. The FPU is 256-bit, and can be sued as teo 128 bit, if both CORES in the MODULE are loaded. I have watched the 8320 in my rig split the load across modules just fine, thanks to the new scheduler in the hardware. If you are intentionally load ALL cores for...

Sapphire Vapor-X here. No issues, unless I OC over 1000, or don't adjust fan speed to compensate for OC (currently 950, and 52%). I do use +20% on the power adjust. I dont want to bother using added software, so I will just use this setup, as I suspect it runs out of power headroom over 975-ish.

I have had my 8320 ( Asus sabertooth 990FX R2) for about 2 weeks. I do a lot of multitasking, and even coming from a 960T running 6 cores @ 3.6-3.7, I notice big improvements with this proc @ 4.3 (1.36V, LLC maintains it to 1.35 under load) in my usage. My situation may be a bit different, as...

^^^ THIS ^^^

Perhaps you could try 1.45 V to 1.47. 1.5V seems very, very high for air. Just because the processor can run clean for an hour or so full load at 1.5 and 60C does not mean it isn't on a fast train to failure. I cannot imagine that 200Mhz (4.5 to 4.7) is worth going from ~1.4V and 45-52C under...

I'm waiting on a rev 2 Sabertooth, and 8320 from the egg. Once they are in, I think i'll shoot for 4.1/4.2, with a 2800NB and 24-2800 HT. I believe that that will give me a better balance for the time when 6+ cores are pretty loaded, and memory transfers and I/O become contention points for...

Dan, In my experience with AMD procs, the NB can quickly be the weak link. If you run the NB up, and apply very little added voltage, and use the LLC, you may have better luck. I have also found that the NB clocking can become a limitation on max cpu OC, due to heat as well as timing...

Wasn't this the AMD processor forum?

You understand that negative reviews from someone that never purchased the product are looked upon as trolling, right? I am sure their moderators are not extremely technical or willing to research your beef, just to decide whether or not to allow you to assail a product they sell.

Go into the BIOS and raises the CPU multiplier. 4.2 Ghz would be a multiplier of 21, for example. It can get more complicated, so there are many guides for overclocking-several here, probably. Maybe try googling: FX-4100 overclocking. Of course you will want to google your board similarly to...

WOW! Kyle's a fucking asshole, and the performance difference between PCI-E modes is very little more than the ipc difference, and pretty much no net difference for AMD cards. Why isn't Captain Rectal Headgear chiding Nividia about a clear CPU dependence. Pretty obvious to me that NV...

I don't live by review sites, and generally prefer AMD just because the overall platform is historically less expensive to get into for current-gen gaming, but: The last link goes to an ANANDTECH article that sows the i3 2100 and 970 in a pretty dead even race. Once you hit ~60FPS, a 5-8...

Edit: Noticed that newer cards use a unified frame buffer. This slightly changes things, but still means that dual gpu cards are still runnning the same effective memory as one, as all textures, antialiasing, and frame buffering are duplicated.

I have found that GPU speed, memory bandwidth and system memory are primary to video editing. That being said, card memory is up there as well. So we have a 3GB 7970 with better throughput, or a 4GB 670. This comes down to the 7970, unless you seem to need 4GB on-card. If that is the...

I think these folks are giving decent -CPU- advice. When I see 2GB of RAM, however, I HAVE to recommend moving to 4 GB(or more) and Win 7 64-bit. DOTA2 really likes to eat ~ 1GB RAM by itself. When RAM is short, that is always my recommendation for a cheap boost in speed. Get 2 2GB sticks...

Your CPU-NB is going to be overclocked by default. Maybe make sure it stays at 2.4 to 2.6 Ghz. Also, 1.42V is high. 1.5 is outside what you should ever need unless doing a one-off liquid nitrogen OC. Try to stay at 1.375 to 1.4, with Load Line Calibration enabled, try 3.5 to 3.75...

That last part absolutely hangs you in terms of your technical research or understanding. System memory that is servicing both programs and video is going to suffer from access time latency. More to the point, his video card's memory is hugely faster than system RAM. This is both for...

The APUs are decent, but you will move to a different platform. The AM3+ platform will be around for a while. I also find that using system memory for graphics will reduce both performance and available memory (also a performance hit), as well as tying up bandwidth for running programs...

Set your game resolution below the native of your monitor. You can (AMD) then force upsampling to native. This can actually be done on many monitors as well, and has antialiasing as a side effect. If done using monitor, no performance hit.

You are dealing with the "value" market customer. Read: cheap assed folks that will lay the laptop on sand, on their bed, and even let their dog rub fur all over the vents. When you deal with the Wal-Mart customer, NEVER blame failures on computing equipment. Especially tagging a brand...

Get the 965. Use multiplier overclock, and just bump it up 1 full multi step. If it's 3.4, make it 3.6, for example. No extra volts or cooling should be needed.

Ok, That is just hilarious!

The taxes bit is funny. Unfortunately, it also gives the impression that other countries have less/no taxes. There is no socialist/communist country that has a lower effective taxing of their citizens than the United States. In fact, in a true iteration of socialism/communism, you see the...