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Just wore out my HD 5870 that I bought over 15 years ago used w/ waterblock here from a Hardforum user. A fine card, it lived a good long life. I'm not much of a gamer but I do some CAD type stuff, watch movies and videos, have a lot of windows open. Debating between RX6700XT and RTX3070...

I've got an old PCI analog sound card with a 24 bit DAC. New motherboard has PCIE but not PCI anymore. Is there some sort of PCIE adapter in which I can put it, and say run USB in and analog out to my studio monitors? Or I see there's a PCI to PCIE converter on amazon for $40. We are...

I have an old build I did years ago with a Sabertooth 990FX R2 mobo and had a problem develop under warranty. After much annoying discussion where I think they pretended not to understand what I was saying, I was finally able to RMA the board and they sent a replacement. The replacement was...

I've had a terrible time with the 990FX rev 2.0 . After about six months of light use it developed overheating in some chips and I returned it to the mfr. The board they sent back wouldn't power up. After I documented this and fought them a lot time for another shipping label, they send me...

Because I need a good keyboard!

So why not get the EK block now for the existing card? Save all the shipping back and forth, and solve the noise problem better than any air cooled solution.

Another bleeding-edge distro is Semplice. http://semplice-linux.org/ I'm running 2.0, which is still available from http://semplice-linux.org/download/ not the 3.0 alpha release. I got fed up with Gnome 3 bugs showing up on one of my computers (a Dell server) and figured out the errors...

Why do you like 5870s for mining? What did you swap them out / in for, just out of curiosity?

My kids have been well trained by my wife and me to be paranoid about this stuff. :D

I think I'm having the same problem with my Radeon 5870 but it's watercooled and the water is flowing in the loop, not hot at all. Twice today it just went to a black screen. I never had this problem before, but yesterday I turned up the clocks on the 5870 to the max provided on the Catalyst...

I haven't noticed a recent version of this thread ... Any update suggestions based on SSDs? I have a 60 gig SATA III SSD, and a 2 TB Hitachi 7200rpm spinning disk with 32MB cache. I have an Intel setup that allows me to use another SSD as a sort of cache between the hard disk and CPU, but...

So which is it -- do plasmas have lingering images, or superior refresh to LCD?

Then he should have disclosed that he was going to do it, and you would remain as a customer because you don't mind.

So AMD gets bent out of shape over carbon emissions (imho a non-issue) and uses affirmative action in selecting their leadership? No wonder they are falling behind Intel! I used to think of AMD as the cool tech company that was "clean" with respect to architecture coolness. Now I see...

Cops being recorded are on the job being paid. On the job we expect to give up many of our civil rights in exchange for the pay. The people they record should be enjoying their full civil rights, however, whatever the judges say that means in terms of recordings.

Throw this guy in jail. What he did is a crime (I sure as **** hope) with victims. It might make FB straighten up and fly a little righter, too.

Well actually, yes exactly. Since the government creates the corporation, it has a right to control it. The local distribution center in Arizona is surely an Arizona corporation. (A related question is why the government gets to tax non-corporate natural human beings, when it did not create...

If they need to be for censorship or whatever to get into a country (China or India especially, huge markets) they'll do what they have to do. Not surprising. Arguably if they weren't there someone else would be. That's their argument anyway, while saying "we do no evil."

Power supply is NZXT Hale82 650W. According to a review it's based on a Seasonic design. Anyway it sounds like it might be easier on the PS to divide it. I've only got cables on hand with 2 connectors in series, which are each 6+2 pins. So if I run 2 such cables and only use one 6 pin...

Is it OK to use the same cable for both 6-pin power connectors on my 5870? Or is it better to use two separate cables coming from the power supply, one for each connector? It sort of seems to defeat the purpose to use the same cable for both connectors, in case the PS is limited on the amps...

I just got an NZXT Phantom 410. It's $100 but they have a 20% off sale on now for another day or two. http://store.nzxt.com/ It's a midtower, but it has room on top for a radiator and then the top cover including a vent goes over that. I'm just starting my build, and I'm a first time...

quote from the Anandtech article:

Does it bother anyone that open-air designs, while they dissipate heat from the GPU better, spew it out into the case? Reference design gets all that hot air outta the case. It would probably be easy for AMD, or nVidia, to make open-air as their reference. But they don't.

I don't understand the mineral oil idea. To get good heat transfer, you need a lot of area in direct contact with the heat. That's what a water block does. Seems to me you would need an equivalent "mineral oil block" which would be harder to implement because of viscosity / sludginess. Just...

So speaking of Bulldozers ... what's the hardware emulation overhead, if you dedicate one of your many Bulldozer cores to a VM, but make everyone share the solitary VGA card and monitor?