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Hmm thanks, tried massaging them which didn't do the trick but I'll try this OSD tool. It's really annoying because they're only noticeable on really light backgrounds but just knowing they're there is still really bugging me. A large part of that is because this is the third monitor I've...

I just received a u2711 but in the bottom left corner there are these two pixels close to each other that darken slightly at certain angles. For example as I move my head from left to right while looking at them they'll alternate between normal and slightly darkened. They're not dead since...

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Anyone have any experience with this monitor? Was thinking of picking one up now and two more down the road for eyefinity. Even though its only 23.6 and not actually 24, I can't find any height adjustable 24 inch monitors at this price in Aus, and Samsung seem to make good panels.

Im pretty sure my power supply is getting pushed to it's limits as well, and I'll grab a new psu once it's more a necessity than a luxury. Thanks for the links.

Thanks but, American deals are great and all, and Newegg seems pretty awesome, but I'm in Australia. Also I'm not entirely convinced that an Antec Signature can't handle a 5850. Or at the very least, that it is exactly the same as a 5 year old TP 480.

Ok I should probably edit the thread title or something but here are the reasons it's not my PSU: No difference between oc'd cpu and stock (a wattage difference of about 100w according to the antec power supply calculator) Tested system using an Antec Signature 600w I borrowed from a friend...

Well I grabbed a MSI 5770 today. Got the same artifacts in Jane Nash at High to a lesser extent, also artifacts in the same place in Crysis to a lesser extent. Getting the feeling its a problem with software/drivers and not physical damage as both cards have the exact same problems in the same...

Not that it matters now, but I don't think it was heat or dust seeing as the card's load temps were 65 and it was brand new. That's pretty much what I thought too, it's what happened back when I had some crappy generic PSU that couldn't handle my 9800pro.

My monitor's only 1680x1050, I think I'll just grab a MSI 5770 for now and OC it to tide me over until Southern Islands, then grab a new card, a psu and 3 monitors.

Ok I guess I'll see if I can grab a 5850 somewhere and maybe a TX750 as well. I'm pretty curious about Trifire, would my motherboard (Gigabyte P55A-UD3R) support a 5970 + 5850 setup? Just so I know what my upgrade paths are. The Gigabyte site says it supports CrossfireX but it also says: *1 x...

Well I got a refund on the card which was nice. Annoying thing is I paid US$260 for the Powercolor and now I can't seem to find a reference 5850 in stock anywhere in Sydney for less than $US320. There are a bunch of non reference ones like Gigabyte and Powercolor at ~$US300 but you can't change...

The temperatures are fine, load temps are about 60C with the fan at 70%. The flashes of black shapes are exactly what I get in Jane Nash at High. And I agree that it would be a good idea to replace my psu, I just don't have much in the way of spare funds right now and would rather not buy...

Well rolling back to 9.12 did nothing. I'm really not sure what to think now. For all practical purposes the card is fine, I mean I played Crysis for 10 hours before I got that artifact. It is an artifact right? Could it just be normal.. I dunno. I really haven't noticed any major problems in...

Well I unplugged everything except the barebones - cpu, mobo, gpu, ram, hard disk and a few fans, put everything back to stock. The artifacts in Jane Nash are still there and if anything are worse than before. I'll try installing older drivers, running cat 10.5 atm.

I'm not really sure what my ambient temp is. I'm thinking its around 20-25 in my room. Those are some pretty great temps you're getting at 1.4v, maybe I should get a second fan for my cooler as well.

I'm getting frequent artifacting in Vantage's Jane Nash test on my Powercolor 5850 PCS+. At stock clocks (760/1050) there are probably ~5 cases in the test where I'll get a flash of large black squares or a large black circle. Underclocking the card to 600/800 reduces the number of artifacts but...

How did you get IBT to run 50 times? The readme says to limit it to 20. I remember I tried setting it to 100 and the program would crash after <10 times, but setting it to 20 it would run fine.

I wasn't really sure which forum to put this in so I'm posting it here. Is there anyone who can actually get GTA4 to run 100% butter smooth? My specs: i5 750 @ 4.2ghz 4gb g.skill trident @1680 7-7-7-18 hd5850 stock Running the benchmark with all settings high/very high, detail distance...

I recently grabbed an i5 750 and a Prolimatech Megahalems and I'm wondering what kind of temps you guys are getting with this cpu on air because mine are a little high. Running a 2000rpm 87cfm Scythe Ultra Kaze as an exhaust fan with a 2000rpm 60cfm Antec as an intake I'm getting ~75C with...

That doesn't sound like a bad idea, I'll take a look. Ah I see. I thought you'd be able to change the multiplier.

I'm alright buying used as well, but obviously buying new is a bit safer, and these were the only two I could find. From what I've seen, used cpu's in Aus aren't cheap, for example there's a used 9550 on ebay now that's already over 200 dollars and the auction is still going. I'd rather pay 200...

The only 8xxx series still in stores here is the Q8400, is it any good? The only two 775 quads I can still find in stores at a reasonable price are the Q8400 and Q9400, the 8400 is about 170USD, and the 9400 is about 200. Do either of these overclock well? Would it be much of a difference...

I really don't have the money for that at the moment. Yeah it looks that way, if I do get a quad core I'd prefer something compatible with my current platform. I've been looking at the 9550, I'd really like one but unless I can somehow get it second hand for 100-150 bucks I can't afford it...

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Thanks for the links they look pretty useful. The Q9550 they suggest costs more than a 5850 for me though. From those graphs it looks like upgrading my CPU would make very little difference at higher graphics settings, except in the case of the 295 which somehow doubles in fps when moving to a...

Maybe I'll just get a 5850 for now and grab a second hand quad at some point.

Thanks for the replies so far. Even though I'm not running 1080p yet I will be once I get the money, so would a 5770 cut it at that resolution? If the 5770 can run any game maxed or close to it at 1680x1050 then maybe I should just get that instead. GTA4 is definitely one of the reasons I'm...

I'm currently running an [email protected] and was tossing up between buying a 5770 or 5850 to replace my 8800gt for gaming at 1680x1050. In Aus the 5850 costs roughly twice as much as a 5770, so the 5770 is significantly better price/performance but buying the 5850 now would save me upgrading to...

Sorry about the ambiguous title I didn't really know how to summarise the issue I'm having. Basically everything about my mouse is great except for one small problem. While watching videos in media player maximized the bar at the bottom (with play/pause etc) will occasionally come up like it...

Tubes are just preferred by some.

Thanks. It seems that the card has a lot of features targeted at eliminating interference. I'm still worried that, with the amount I'm hearing from my computer now, it won't be able to eliminate it all =/.

I'm pretty happy with my X-Fi for gaming. Fairly average for music though.

That looks like a solid option but an onboard amp sounds a bit dubious. Is it possible to bypass the STX's amp? I noticed it has an EMI shield which is nice, I'm wondering if those who have one have noticed any interference at all? (With or without an external amp.) Also this card can output a...

So I'm using a G&W TW-J1 amp with Audio Technica A700's which (to my untrained ears) sound amazing with my iPod as a source. Absolutely no background hum or static while plugged in with no music playing until the volume knob is turned to about 3/4 of the way (which is way beyond necessary since...

So Benq email customer support took a week to reply with unhelpful information, and once they did finally get around to replying it was a !*@&# unhelpful, condescending one liner. Other equally unhelpful emails from them have followed, each almost a whole week apart. By far the worst...

*sigh* It says in the article that the P5B isn't recommended, and I wanna know why.

Unclewebb that post was insane and very helpful. Should start a thread with it and get it stickied imho. Well when I'm running Coretemp (showing delta Tjunction) and RMClock at the same time the addition of the two readings tends to vary from 86-87 when idle and 82-85 when under load. Would...

So you're saying the Coretemp readings are either correct, or 15 degrees too high depending on whether the Tjunction should be 100 or 85? Coretemp also incorrectly reports my frequency as 8x432 instead of 8x385. And I haven't run Orthos overnight yet, but after 90 minutes my temp was either 80...

Coretemp gives the same readings as SpeedFan's CPU reading, not its Core0 and Core1 readings. I've found Coretemp's readings to be unrealistically high, how trustworthy is RMClock though?