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Well done..... I applaud your absolute lack of respect for people. OF COURSE THERE IS A QUEUE OF SYSTEMS THAT THEY BUILD FIRST. This queue is decided by, wait for it, the order that people ordered the systems in! You called up, lied, acted like an absolute asshole, and got pushed to the...

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/ Theres lots of individual game tips for widescreen there, use them all the time. Life saver of a web site!

Sounds like the problem is he hasn't followedthe golden rule for a windows install. 1. Slipstreamed install disk with all latest updates. Reboot 2. Windows update to get all the new crap. Reboot 3. Latest Chipset Drivers. Reboot 4. Latest graphics drivers. Reboot 5. Whatever you feel like

No, it's not win-win to go to a Quadro, you lose gaming performance. You either go quadro and get infrequent driver updates and nerfed gaming or go geforce and get frequent driver updates and improved gaming. You can probably mod a quadro back to a geforce, if it goes one way I don't see why...

Your games audio is only going to 16bit 48KHz, absolute max. Your onboard audio dumps all the work onto the CPU and it can't do EAX or any proper audio effects. The quality of the audio you hear isn't determined by the "number of bits that the card can decode" or anything so ridiculous, it's the...

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Internet needs more kick in the teeth button.

Why are you looking at workstation class notebooks ? You only want a Quadro if you're doing CAD / 3dsMAX. For $1000 could you not get a new Inspiron from Dell with a Core2Duo and an 8600GT in it ?

Lol, obvious scam. Anyone who falls for that deserves everything that happens to them.

Showing your age here kid. Everyone slammed XP when it came out and said "2k4lyfe" "Im sticking with Win98SE forever" "XP is slower, it always crashes and its bloatware" etc. Grow up and realise that all new OSes take time to mature. Personally I'm running Vista even though i was hugely...

Lol

And do you actually think that the EU, a vast sprawling, retarded bureaucracy have any Idea that the Core Architecture is better than whatever AMD have out right now? This is development aid, to pump up the local economy of that area and make some jobs. Simple as

Did you even read my post where I pointed out that Intel themselves have received hundreds of millions in EU grants for development? Whatever, just another biased US rant against the EU where you chose to completely ignore my point.

Wow, for so someone so normally well spoken I never thought you'd say something so dumb Ockie. Whats unfair about development aid? If Intel were building a new Fab they'd get massive grants as well. Intel's fabs in Ireland have been hugely subsidised and Intel probably barely pay a penny...

How about a 7300LE? If you're not playing games there is literally no benefit at all to faster card.

Do your own homework.

Ummm... offtopic much? Noone gives a shit if ATI's latest drivers have squeezed some more perf. We're talking about midrange cards here. To be ontopic myself, I've got a 256meg X1900XT which I got last september for 300euros in a killer deal. Aside from ATI driver issues the odd time I've...

MS just made the games Vista only to force vista adoption. There was nothing about the games themselves that neccesitated running on vista. Its their standard tactic of forced upgrades that they've used since the dawn of time.

Please don't spread misinfomation. Those games WERE NOT DX10 ONLY. They were VISTA ONLY. So the hackers just cut out the little check that the game performs when it starts up to make sure that it's playing on Vista. This worked in this case because the games had full DX9 codepaths for...

Yeah, and thats still Dominator RAM though, which is expensive RAM in the first place...

You could always just buy a 12v power brick to plug into the wall and wire your fans into that. Either way you're gonna be cutting some wires buddy, its no big deal.

PC8500 ? Last time I checked that's the expensive kind. Drop to a non SLI board, P965 or P35. Drop the RAM to PC6400, even that is overkill. Drop the GTX to a GTS. Save a ton of money, get nearly all of the performance. Put the cash that you save into a high interest account or something till...

Fair enough, in my experience ASR is pretty good. I've generally just dropped to console to FIXBOOT or FIXMBR

Godmachine, maybe you should think about his post again, in the context of the OP. He was saying "XP does this" as in XP can also do a system repair using its install disk. You put the disk in and hit F2 for automated system restore...

You have to set widescreen reesolutions in the registry for warcraft 3. Mine works fine in 1680x1050 when I set it to that in the registry, So I dont see why it wouldnt work in the higher res.

None of those are good uses. They are all superficial uses which do nothing to enhance gameplay. You only came up with those suggestions because the card can do cloth effects, not because the world needs them. This is well within the realm of GPU-Physics, because the way that cloth flows in the...

Ahahaha.... No, it's not that either. Lol.

Keep an eye on www.overclockers.co.uk 's this week only deals. They get in a shipment of S939 chips every now and again and blow them out ~£60-70 pretty quickly. Just grab a 3800+ or 4200+ or whatever it is they next have in. Can't go wrong with a nice cheap simple upgrade like that to keep you...

Where do they single out HardOCP, Kyle ? I don't think you have to take it so childishly like a direct critcism of your site when they suggest that there is a need for change in the general review methodology. The vast majority of sites don't put too much weight into the PPW metric. Shouldn't...

If your 360 will send 1366x768 to your TV then you should try forcing that res from your PC. Set it to show all resolutions, or else use powerstrip to force it.

How exactly do most games not even take advantage of one core? Think your games are performing calcs on their pixy calculators made of fairy dust? :rolleyes:

Yeah, never mind maths/physics wizards, anyone with high school physics and the ability to multiply and divide can figure out that loop order matters extremely little. Just make sure you got your res/t-line before the pump and it's gravy.

That A64 4000+ in your sig, Probably 100watts at full load right ? You're going to want like a 150watt peltier to even bother trying to get good temps in that case. And if you're trying to cool the hot side of a 150watt peltier you're going to want a hard core water cooling kit. So...

Well then buy a physx card and slap a passive cooler on it? It's already an super-niche card, I'd be amazed if they bothered further sub-dividing their niche with a passive model.

Oh please. If you'd ever seen a game running below 60 fps, at 60fps and above 60 fps you would know that there is a difference. I found DoD much easier when I could keep my FPS solidly around 100fps than floating around 60fps

Nope. X800XT > 7300GT By a good bit I'd imagine...

Give the guy a break, he discovered the boards PLL saving everyone some hassle and all he gets is abuse for his English ? Please. He already apologised in advance for it.

All of this stuff about AMD sabotaging Intel's beautiful vision for the future is absolutely laughable. We're talking about a free market place and making money here! Intel shouldn't care less what architecture people use, as long as they're buying it from them. And they don't. Itanium was just...

Whats not to see where he proved you wrong Crosshairs? Just admit you made a mistake, jeez.

Nothing.

I went directly from an X850XT PE to a 256MB X1900XT and there was an absolutely huge difference in all games, at all settings. Look closer.