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Had a couple of kabooms under non-gaming usage within an hour of installing these on my 290 system. The third crash I could still move the mouse cursor around, but the system was unresponsive (couldn't even launch task manager with crl+shift+esc). Back on 14.4 again now.

Yeah they are that old, excluding the machines at work (which I'm not about to plug a 250w card into). Like I say, consoles and laptops. At the end of the day there's not a lot of point checking it in a different PC - it's a compatible system (broadly speaking, there are always anomalies) which...

Negative - that would be handy but I can't really plug it into any old PC, and everyone I know has either moved to consoles and/or laptops or simply has a very outdated rig. If it doesn't work in my Sandy Bridge then it's of no use to me anyway. I'll have to RMA - in the unlikely event it is...

Nah, literally just got the BIOS flashed using a stick I borrowed from work and it hasn't helped. Other than the fan spinning, the card is toast as far as I can tell - already tried more troubleshooting than most would bother to do, now it's going back.

My Asus 290 was DOA as far as I can tell. Fan spins but that's it, no POST. Been trying to update my mobo BIOS in case that's the issue but the damn thing refuses to boot from a USB stick (tried 2 sticks and a couple of flash cards in a USB reader, also different boot disk software) so just have...

Ah, yeah that's not ideal but it does seem a common issue with 290s in CrossFire. I'd been on the fence about 290 vs 780 but I figured the 780 is crappy at mining and the price difference is just about the cost of a waterblock. Hope I don't come to regret my decision! Curiously the only other...

Much obliged, I was just about to google that :) Had my hopes up, but when I checked they were both Single-link DVI-D. So it looks like I got a bum card :( It's more of a bummer because I still can't find the ref cooler for my 580, so I have basically sweated buckets downgrading to a 8800GTS...

I'd thought about going CF if mining works out, but I'd probably be cutting it close on a TX850? The CPU is relatively cool under air (Megahalems push-pull) so I could just WC the 290s, which my setup would easily handle. So is the problem mostly throttling, or are there quite a few games where...

Both monitors support DVI-D and came supplied with DVI cables (as well as a regular D-SUB) which I would assume are digital...but how would I tell, as I've honestly never heard of DVI-A or DVI-I ?

Both monitors are connected straight DVI-DVI - I haven't used a VGA connection since the CRT days.

Got my 290 from OcUK yesterday. Had to pull apart my WC loop in order to get it in with the stock cooling (don't have time to do a proper re-fit and leak test until the weekend, plus it pays to check it all works first) but it appears to be DOA. All spins up, no bleeping or anything untoward and...

Getting my Asus 290 and EK block on Monday - will be trying my luck on the unlock.

I'm afraid it doesn't work like that. The theoretical maximum transfer rate for data from the main system is limited by the PCI Express bus itself (16 GB/s for PCI-E 3.0 @ x16), and realistically is lower still due to other constraints clayton mentioned. Back in the old days ATi cards couldn't...

Never had an issue with simply installing new drivers from either camp. The one time I used DriverSweeper it hosed my system........avoid like the plague

The frequency discrepancy is perfectly normal - a BIOS or overclocking tool can request any clocks they want, but the clock-gens are fixed (something like 26-27 MHz for the core domain on a 260 if I recall correctly) and what is really happening is that the closest multiplier is selected. So...

Windows 7 maxes out at 7.9, yes.........but Vista maxes out at 5.9.

Hmm I score a 7.9 on memory at 1866 MHz or above (and even at 1600 with decent timings). I would get a 7.9 across the board but my 2600k @ 4.5 rates 7.8. WEI is pretty useless tbh. Edit: this is on Win7, I am in no rush to move to 8

I'm struggling to understand how you could have possibly arrived at your conclusion, given that it does not agree with the data you yourself cited. Any reliably measurable delta shows how much the additional ROPs and bandwidth are benefitting the 670, since that is the only real difference...

Carmack should ultimately be held accountable for any ID *engine* issues as he is the technical lead, but on the flip side if the game itself plain sucks then that is not his problem. So in the case of Rage I think his apology was warranted. I found Doom 3 boring and predictable -ultimately...

I admit there is a definite softness to them, nor did they pick very good examples. They have not done a huge overhaul on the graphics front - this is more about compatibility than turning it into a visual feast, but the flip side of that is that it requires very little in terms of hardware. The...

D2 was fun, but hardly a true RPG :p

I would purchase the game just to support the development of BG3, although I will definitely enjoy replaying it again :) Much as I would like to see an enhanced edition of PS:T, I'd rather have BG3 first. DA:O did not feel like a spiritual successor at all, although it was a good game in many...

Despite the fact I find the new Dawn to look too realistic in terms of having a very human countenance, this is very impressive stuff. I'd love to see games in 5 years looking like this (we certainly had games in 2007 which had more details than the original demo) - of course they still need...

Great, my internet has been down and it comes back the day after the sale finished :(

Lol so true....I got bored waiting for A Dance With Dragons to come out, and by the time it finally did I was in the position of needing to re-read the previous volumes (while being in the middle of another series). From what I'm hearing it wasn't necessarily worth the wait, but I have it on my...

No, everyone does not die, his characters are simply MORTAL. The fantasy genre has quite enough heroes who are implausibly death-proof, plenty of authors to choose from if that is your bag. Me, I'm glad there are writers like GRRM and Steven Erikson. With the success of GOT, it gives me hope...

+1 As soon as I heard this series was being made into a TV show, and GRRM himself was directly involved, I knew I had to see it. Unlike the god-awful Terry Goodkind series (so bad I forget the name), this is a brilliant adaptation I literally waited years for.

Not sure why you linked those particular graphs, the frametimes over time highlights the microstutter/variance much better. As a final piece of data those are really nothing more than 'amount of time spent where framerate was below a given target', which is just an overall performance metric...

VMWare running Win98/2k (may or may not need Direct3D acceleration turned on) might work. I was going to try re-playing Silver via this route but I don't know where I left the discs.

Yes I had missed the inventory in my peeves list, it does suck pretty damn hard. I rather like the art style of the game, lends it more of a fantasy quality....although I did fiddle with FXAA Injector to tune the post-processing. Ah yes I found the one in Star Camp last night ;)

Why is it that every RPG these days has to have a number of glaring faults which any halfway-decent test team should have pulled them up about? I have only got to level 8 in KoA and some things are bugging me already: 1. Talent trees: Dragon Age did it badly, this in some ways is even worse...

The GTX2xx parts did have un-linkable hot clocks, however the shader domain could run no slower than double the speed of the core clock. And unfortunately the shader clocks were the limiting factor on those cards.

Oh gawd, not this again.....memory remapping has been around for ages. A 2GB card will not use 2GB of 32-bit address space in any modern system.

2600k? Cos thats exactly what I get at 4.5 too. I was expecting 7.9s across the board, but CPU and memory both come in at 7.8..........clearly not a linear scale as i got 7.6 at stock clocks.

updated to 295.51 drivers, had to lower my OC a bit but still got a better score: 2600k @ 4.5 GTX580 @ 950 core, 2150 mem P8028 :)

PrtScrn key then paste it into Paint (or similar) and save. But then you also need to upload it somewhere and link to it in your post using the IMG tag

Hmm, what drivers are you running? I got 7489 with my 580 at 975/1950/4400 paired with a 2600k @ 4.5

Hmm i think my 486 DX2/66 had a 512k Trident ISA card in it. Before that I'd had a Spectrum 48k, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC-6128 with the colour monitor, Atari ST-520 and finally an Amiga A500 with upgrades (all seemed so grand on a 20" television). I even have an Oric-1 (made before I was born)...

Yep. 240 will net better temps but a single 120 would suffice. FWIW I can run an i7 @ 4.5 and a GTX580 @ 950 core on a single 360 rad with fans turned down to minimum and still get great temps.

He's talking about games which load content on-the-fly. The hitches you can experience streaming data from a mechanical drive simply don't happen with an SSD.