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Video Card Thread (Mostly Gecube x1950xt)
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13. August 2007 @ 05:54 |
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Ah right. Which board do you use? There may be a fix for it. My motherboard's not compatible with vista, and it's far newer than yours!
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WFIH
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13. August 2007 @ 06:37 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Ah right. Which board do you use? There may be a fix for it. My motherboard's not compatible with vista, and it's far newer than yours!
A Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Moth...?ProductID=1881
It's a sad day when i can remember my motherboard model off by heart. I must get out more.
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13. August 2007 @ 06:41 |
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Well, I've had an A8N-SLI SE, an A8R-MVP, an MSI MS-6775 and currently use a P5N-E SLI. Can't remember the first one I had.
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13. August 2007 @ 07:27 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Well, I've had an A8N-SLI SE, an A8R-MVP, an MSI MS-6775 and currently use a P5N-E SLI. Can't remember the first one I had.
You need to get out more too then!
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13. August 2007 @ 07:30 |
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yep!
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13. August 2007 @ 08:50 |
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wow, lots of posts since I was here last...
WFIH, does your card overheat? Since most of the x1950xts do, I just thought yours would but I dont recall you saying anything about it yet.
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Company of heroes now plays smoothly with every single graphic option cranked up to the max. Before on those specs it refreshed about once every 3 seconds!
How did you get COH to do that? My card will only play it on medium/high settings with some lag starting when things heat up.
Anyways, I will try the overclocking method now and get back later on.
Is there a chance I can fry my cpu by increasing the voltage? What does that do?
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13. August 2007 @ 11:21 |
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Oh! So thats how you overclock the cpu!!!! Yea, I did the thing in the BIOS, overclock 10% right now, and Im running at 3.51GHz! Thats 879.7mhz on the fsb. Ill see how far I can go...
(this is according to cpuz)
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13. August 2007 @ 11:33 |
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With a P4, you won't get too far, but you can at least bag a few extra mhz.
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13. August 2007 @ 12:51 |
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yea, the max I can go is overclock 10% (3.51mhz),anything above that and the computer wont boot...
This is good enough though!
I found this to be extremely weird... Bf2 will play jittery, and around 30fps on wake 64player (multiplayer), but when I turn up the settings all the way (highest, no aa/ff) @ 1280x960, I get the same fps, maybe even better, and better quality!
Is that the cpu thats making it better?
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13. August 2007 @ 21:39 |
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Waymon, will you try something for me:
- Go into BF2, start a match to be sure.
- Tab out to the desktop.
- Open Firefox.
- Scroll a webpage by dragging the sliding bar.
- See if it goes fluently or "laggy" with like moving slow and all.
It does that with me, and it's the same effect as if I don't have drivers installed.
Even before this card when I wouldn't have drives while updating them.
So in between the old and new ones...
It's something with the software too apparently.
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14. August 2007 @ 00:40 |
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Hey Waymon, glad you got you o/c working! You should try 3dmark cpu score again and see what you get.
With your o/c, you have selected the 10% option which does it all for you right? With this method I'm pretty sure that o/cs your RAM too. If you set that option to manual then you will have a whole lot of extra options come up which would allow you to experiment a bit more. You can set your RAM frequency back to 400 if you find that your RAM is the limiter, but you will most likely find that the vcore voltage will be holding you back. As Sam has mentioned before use the upmost caution when changing the vcore as overvolting then overheating will kill your chip, but if you are careful you will be able to squeeze a bit more.
Firstly, you know that you can run 220mhz FSB on your stock voltage (because your 10% overclock works) so set your FSB manually to 220, then go up by 1mhz each time until it becomes unstable under load or won't boot. At this point you will have found your max FSB on stock voltage. If you then give it 1 voltage increment, +0.05v then that will let you achieve higher FSB speed. Again push it up 1 by 1 until it's unstable again then back off a bit and you've found it! I personally wouldn't give it any more than one voltage increment (whimp!) and I would monitor your temps carefully afterwards too - better safe than sorry!
Q9550 @ 3.4Ghz-1.275v & TRUE, Asus P5N-T Deluxe, 4Gb Dominator 1066 (5-5-5-15), Inno3d OC 8800GTs in SLi with TT Duorbs, 580w 5.1 Setup, 2x DVD-RAM, 320&160Gb SATA2 HDDs, 17" 3ms Hyundai TFT, 700w Jeantech PSU.
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14. August 2007 @ 01:34 |
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Actually guys, that happens to me with Firefox too. I think it's because the graphics card is locked to the game and doesn't provide anything for the desktop, consequently it has to be CPU rendered, like before you have the drivers installed.
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WFIH
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14. August 2007 @ 01:35 |
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Originally posted by Waymon3X6:
WFIH, does your card overheat? Since most of the x1950xts do, I just thought yours would but I dont recall you saying anything about it yet.
How did you get COH to do that? My card will only play it on medium/high settings with some lag starting when things heat up.
I haven't had any overheating troubles - but it is all enclosed in an antec P190 case which has 7 fans including one the size of a dinner plate + the 2 fans on the AGP and 1 on the processor. I haven't even had to speed them up - they're all on the lowest setting
As for COH - I've no idea why mine is running so good. I haven't overclocked. I'm running an AMD Dual Core 64 4200 with 4gb of RAM.
Having said that - i only played a quick 5 mins to check it out so it may cause problems when i cheat and suddenly have 50 mortar units.
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14. August 2007 @ 01:41 |
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Lol.
You actually bought a P190? Wow. I'd like one, but I don't need the two pain in the ass power supplies at the bottom. You can buy them with windows from performance-pcs.
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WFIH
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14. August 2007 @ 01:43 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Lol.
You actually bought a P190? Wow. I'd like one, but I don't need the two pain in the ass power supplies at the bottom. You can buy them with windows from performance-pcs.
Why are the power supplies a pain? I've had no problems - once i found the connector to link the two.
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14. August 2007 @ 01:47 |
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Well, because they make up half of the ludicrous cost of the case, and you can't ever use any other power supplies without paper-clip modding one of them.
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14. August 2007 @ 01:55 |
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Well I was having power problems so needed to ugrade - and the decent PSUs were £200+ - so £250 including the absolute top notch soundproof case seemed like a bargain from my perspective.
I'm not anticipating needing more than 1200W any time soon so i'm not too concerned about changing them.
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14. August 2007 @ 02:07 |
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14. August 2007 @ 02:33 |
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I already had 500w which was not enough. I'm also running 3200GB of hard disks
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14. August 2007 @ 03:29 |
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That rather depends which 500W power supply you used. A lot of 500W power supplies can barely put out 200. With a little bit of modification, a friend of mine runs 12,000GB of hard drives off a 580W unit.
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14. August 2007 @ 11:26 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Actually guys, that happens to me with Firefox too. I think it's because the graphics card is locked to the game and doesn't provide anything for the desktop, consequently it has to be CPU rendered, like before you have the drivers installed.
Ah, but I actually thought I didn't have the problem before this card.
Because I have tabbed out of games to do other things or search info plenty of times before, and I think I would've noticed it then.
But I'll check again when I take this card out, again, until maybe the XFX comes in.
Maybe this week, if they can't make it, the next.
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14. August 2007 @ 12:35 |
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Quote:
a friend of mine runs 12,000GB of hard drives off a 580W unit.
Damn man! What does he need all of that for???
As for the BF2 thing, I will try that now... Do you mean multiplayer or singleplayer?
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14. August 2007 @ 12:59 |
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It may be something that only ATI cards do...
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15. August 2007 @ 18:54 |
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hey all, been a while since I posted... i found a comment that says that the person overcloced their memory on their x1950xt to over 2000... How the hell do you do that??!!! You need some major cooling!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...earch&plindex=0
(last commment)
Heck, I'd be lucky if I could get to 1000. How can i get there?
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16. August 2007 @ 01:34 |
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2000 typically means 1Ghz but x2 with the DDR effect.
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