Originally posted by sammorris:

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I'm assuming you do realise there's a massive step up in Image Quality from the 7 series to the 9 series? I'm willing to bet it's that, and only that, contributing to the better image quality. As far as I'm aware, no video playback will consume more than 128MB or so of video memory. Just because the extra memory is there doesn't mean it gets used.

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A video card is capable of displaying images in several different resolutions (for a definition of resolution see the Monitor section). Each resolution has a corresponding palette of colors that can be displayed. The higher the resolution, the lower the number of colors that can be displayed simultaneously. For instance, a typical SVGA card may be able to display only 256 colors when providing images at 1280 x 1024 resolution, but when the resolution is decreased to 800 x 600 the card can display up to 16.7 million colors.

The palette shrinks as the resolution increases because as resolution increases the number of pixels increase: to manage the increased number of pixels within its limited memory resources, the video card provides fewer colors per pixel, thereby reducing the number of colors in the palette. As the amount of video memory considered standard for a SVGA card increases, and it is currently at about two megabytes, the number of colors that can be displayed at high resolutions has increased; but most cards still cannot provide 16.7 million colors at their maximum resolutions.

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Gaming PC uses too much power at idle to consider leaving it on 24/7 - yours will be almost the same (since the 4870 and 4870X2's idle consumption is actually very similar), so you should probably look into that.

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The biggest wake-up call for me was discovering that I could control more aspects of the video if I load the control panel, and use it! I think the technology of the 9500GT compared to the 7600GT, makes a world of difference in picture quality, but the 512MB of Ram in the 9500GT does make a huge difference in the viewable palette at say, 1080p! You can see so much more detail in the picture.

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Originally posted by keith1993:

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I just use MediaMonkey for my music (an Evil piece of pay software based on Winamp (there is a free version though)) and seem to constantly swap about when it comes to video players I fairly consistently use XMBC when I'm actually watching films though.

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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let the fun begin

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=850137

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let the fun begin

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=850137

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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that happens with me, if in bios i put resume by keyboard: on. if i turn it off, the thing sleeps fine.

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Originally posted by bigwill68:

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@Russ

There's nothing wrong now at 3.935ghz and stable on this board my friend,even dropped the vcore down alittle that's my goal until it's not stable under low voltage at this clock speed. I believe something was wrong with my biostar I45 that day anyway that's why it was reading funny Mips results with low output numbers biostar send me a brand new board now it's still in the box.I'm coming to do a rebuild with it new case,cpu,memory and so on...I gotta e-mail my dude back at Biostar and learn what the tests showed on my old board if they have it to offer...i'm liking the new win7 ultimate running 32 bit with no problems for me so far keeping my fingers crossed...LOL

Sandra



easy tuner



i'm Not turning with easy tune.I'm tuning it within the bios itself(M.I.T). I see they just released another Bio's update for the Rev 1.6 on 11-24( Fix DES version error) what's that pertain to? and alot of people
are saying it's better to flash your bios with Q-Flash than @bios outside of the OS instead inside the OS how you feel about that?

Ps. here's the page where the mips testing got started almost at the bottom. i was at 3.81 then on the I45
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/350/683586

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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oh no comments on my I5 huh???? interesting....oh well. nothing lost..

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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let the fun begin

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=850137

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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Will,

Looks good!

As far as the DES error goes, something is not right in the Dynamic Energy Saver. You might uninstall it and re-install it again, after you re-boot! I've been using EZ-Flash since it first came out, and have absolute faith in the process! Just don't do it through Windows! LOL!!

Happy Holidays,
Russ

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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the i5s are insane clockers, practially guarranteed 4GHz, even with a lowly GB-P55-UD2

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