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16. February 2008 @ 15:12 |
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Nice. I can get as far as 1280x1024 with 4xAA on high before the frame rate's hideous. I assume that's what you're using. There are tweaks you can use to up the detail level even higher out there on forums, and if you drop the shader and/or shadow quality to medium, you can run the game at the same frame rate as before. I personally prefer Crysis with the shadows off, because they look crap IMO.
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16. February 2008 @ 15:26 |
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What kind of GFX card are you using?
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16. February 2008 @ 15:30 |
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cincyrob,
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yea it will play dvds and actually im useing nero recode now and it is burning a disc...think i might need to uninstall anydvd and reinstall
The biggest problem I had with AnyDVD is it didn't get along with other programs I was using. It didn't like Fab Decrypter or DVD Decrypter and caused problems with them. I took it out completely about a year ago and haven't had any problems since. Generally I use RI4M which uses DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink, and so far it's only failed twice! Once with Ultra-Violet and once with Shoot Em Up. Fab Platinum 3.1.2.6 took care of those two with no problems. I also have Fab Decrypter 4.0.3.2, which is the free version and copies HD as well. I got rid of all the DVD Burning programs, in favor of Nero, and I never have any problems processing the Rip with DVDRB/CCE and then burning the output file with Nero!
Best Regards,
Russ
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16. February 2008 @ 16:50 |
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It's funny, I almost never burn DVDs with third party programs, it's usually just nero. Mind you, I no longer burn DVDs, what with my only currently available DVD drive being starforced!
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16. February 2008 @ 17:12 |
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gm,
thanks for the heads up on the verbs. got em ordered.
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16. February 2008 @ 17:34 |
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abuzar. i'm using the 8800gts, getting a bit of jumpyness in the multiplayer now, not sure if that is just lag or if the rig is under pressure. Great game by the way. Multi player will take of getting used to though, its bloody fast paced.
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16. February 2008 @ 17:47 |
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Interestingly enough, I tried the demo of Audiosurf tonight. Gameplay is cool, but the game is so buggy it's not even funny. Half of that might be my graphics drivers but everyone else has issues too, so I'm not sure they're all to blame. Let's hope that gets fixed before I drop the six pounds on playing it. (Interestingly enough for each song I play the log records about 600 errors, most of them missing textures!)
Downloading Catalyst 8.2 now to see if it restores being able to render 2D textures again...
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17. February 2008 @ 07:18 |
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didnt mean to leave ya'll hangin..lol i got anydvd running again had to uninstall it. and now it shows my blank media in the drive.
iwhen i had the cpu up to 3.51 it crashed and anydvd reported a error so that was that problem...
now igot a new set of questions.
my fans how can i control them? they are connected to the mobo.front top rear and cpu fan.
the cpu fan is running at 1900rpms isnt that a little high? he top fan is @780rpms and the front and rear fans are about the same. 1200rpms.
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17. February 2008 @ 08:45 |
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@mort81
ive gotten everything like you told me except the vcore. i even went as high as 1.3625(docty idea) it kept crashing. so i have the vcore back down to normal which is 1.225. it seems fine there...or am i just not going high enough with the vcore? which dont make since if the 1.225 works?
im gonna leave it where it is at right now for a few days and see how it acts.. once again jst gonna go about normal stuff i do on the puter..
sorry guys i know im way off topic here with my problems this is a building thread. and ive built it i will take all this over to the OCing thread..
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17. February 2008 @ 09:27 |
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As far as I can remember, most BIOSes leave all your fans running full speed by default. That said though, 1900rpm doesn't sound like full speed for a CPU fan (it's typically 2500-3000) so it may be scaled back, but just not far. If you go into your BIOS, there's a section on fan control that allows you to set at what temperature the fan should be at a certain settings. Not sure whether there's a gradient or just a few specific speeds, I've never used it on a Gigabyte board.
You can either do that, or use Speedfan to directly control your fans manually. That's always a nice, simple way to do it!
If increasing the Vcore by as much as 0.14V didn't solve stability problems, the CPU voltage isn't the issue. It's often wise to nudge the chipset voltage up slightly (+0.1V should be plenty) to aid with the high front side bus speed.
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17. February 2008 @ 09:54 |
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thats just it. in my bios it shows the fans and the speeds but there isnt any way of changing them. at least i havent found a way...
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17. February 2008 @ 12:55 |
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17. February 2008 @ 13:06 |
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In your BIOS change your speed control to voltage(legacy I think) and then you can use Speedfan.
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17. February 2008 @ 13:44 |
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17. February 2008 @ 14:39 |
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I think "smart fan control" is what you're after, in the third picture, but if it's on auto, 1900rpm is very high. What are your temps?
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17. February 2008 @ 15:31 |
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Smart fan Control uses PWM(pulse width modulation). A lot of fans don't support it. The only good thing about PWM is that you don't have to reduce the voltage so if you have LED fans, they wont dim down when you reduce the fan speed.
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17. February 2008 @ 18:12 |
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Potentially, but I don't think I've ever seen a PWM fan. Presumably to get a really low speed the pulses would have to be too short to keep the LEDs on all the time, so you may still have that problem, I don't know.
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17. February 2008 @ 18:37 |
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The stock intel fan is a PWM fan, so is the fan on the Freezer 7 pro.
Anyway smart fan control is PWM I think so that wont work for him.
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17. February 2008 @ 19:51 |
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sammorris,
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Potentially, but I don't think I've ever seen a PWM fan.
Your Arctic Freezer 7 Pro had one, but your SLI board didn't support it. I have mine under PWM control, from the motherboard. It would seem that all 4 fan headers on the MB are all under some sort of temperature control. It was just a question of which did what! The Chassis, as it says in everest has my side 80mm Silverstone plugged into it with it's own speed control and it all works just fine! The 120mm in the back is set to 1300 rpm manually and the NB fan will crank up to 5000 rpm if it gets too warm. Soutwest corner room! BTW! See how "Generous" Silenx is! I buy 5 cfm 3000 rpm fan and I get a 5 cfm 5000 rpm fan. Oh, there was a note on the box where someone crossed out 3000 rpm with a Red magic marker, and stuck a little sticker with 5000 rpm on it! Imagine the dBA remained the same at 14, with 2000 more rpms! That's Engineering! ROFLMGO!
Best Regards,
Russ
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17. February 2008 @ 20:12 |
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my chipset fans will turn nearly 7500 rpm. they are the loudest fans in my pc now that I don't regulate the gpu fan with atitool. the gpu fan winds up when I boot up but otherwise I don't hear it.
I tried slowing down my chipset fans with qfan but that also slows down my front and rear case fans. too slow for my rear oem 120mm coolermaster case fan (under 800 rpm). I can bump the speed back up to around 1200 rpm on my front case fan since it is a 120mm antec tricool. I ordered another tricool for the rear.
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17. February 2008 @ 20:16 |
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whoops, typo! I mean I'd never seen a PWM fan with LEDs! Lol
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18. February 2008 @ 04:43 |
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Hey Rob, might wanna google "high e8400 temp" seems the e8400 is having problems with its temp readings. Still trying to figure out what it means....
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18. February 2008 @ 18:43 |
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@random5
i read some of those reviews. most of them are of people that are getting high temps from really OC'ing(4.0+ghz) or they didnt use AS5 on the cpu. idont have problems with my temps cpu=20-23c and each core about 36-46c and under load the highest it got was 60c so thats plenty cool.
but now the big red machine is down!!!!!!!!!!! wipeing the HDD reinstalling windows.
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18. February 2008 @ 21:09 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
@random5
i read some of those reviews. most of them are of people that are getting high temps from really OC'ing(4.0+ghz) or they didnt use AS5 on the cpu. idont have problems with my temps cpu=20-23c and each core about 36-46c and under load the highest it got was 60c so thats plenty cool.
but now the big red machine is down!!!!!!!!!!! wipeing the HDD reinstalling windows.
So that's what they call it now.... hehehe. ;P
How are things going Rob?? I've been messing with mine again (the NEW build) and got it up to 3.82 and she didn't like it. lol. I'll have to do some more research and see what I can do. ;) It's stable right around 3.7 but the GM is GREEDY!!! lol.
Rob have you decided on a ODD yet?? I still think you should look at a Pioneer or LG. :D You have enough Lite-Ons to start your own store. hehehe. Ooops, maybe that's me. :P
.....gm
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18. February 2008 @ 21:28 |
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You should have gotten a E6750, it would have overclocked just as well.
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