Recent content by doctr_nick

Hey guys! Don't forget too that the 6970, while likely being at least on par with a GTX480, it isn't the end of the line for AMD. There's still the good possibility of a dual GPU card, a la 6990 being released. NVIDIA may have the GTX580, but it won't hold up against the 6990. And considering...

Why can't someone bring back the POD series or something similar? The original had such amazing atmosphere and to me is one of the best racing games ever made.

Well, the AGP version of the card will use slightly more juice due to the PCI-E bridge chip, but in all honesty, if you have the system totally stripped down, in all likelihood you will be okay. All you can do is give it a try. I know in some cases people worry about overloading the PSU and...

Yeah, fortunately I was smart enough to buy renters insurance on my apt, so everything is covered. The lame part though is that my apt is the only one broken into in the building in the past 4 years (according to the landlords). And the people went through EVERYTHING. Meaning they knew they had...

Yeah, it was a Gateway FX-P6860. The worst part is that they also took my fiance's laptop which was one of the higher end acer's.

Hi guys! I unfortunately just had my appartment broken into earlier in the week and was wondering if anyone knew of any way to track a laptop after it has been stolen. I know there is software that you could load onto your laptop before hand that sends data to online servers and gives a...

Yeah, I'm not so sure about the PCI-E filter/NB filter being my issue- I'll look into it though. It's just weird that changing the order of the cards changes the performance. I mean, these are supposed to be identical cards. And they are. I mean I flashed them with the exact same bios. I've...

Well it's not so much about measuring performance for the sake of comparing it to nvidia cards. It's just that Vantage is used so widely across many hardware sites that it's one of the few things that can be used to get a quick comparison without the need of having to match settings, ect. I've...

Yeah. Sorry about the system specs. I've been browsing these forums for about 4 years now and finally decided to sign up a little while ago. I filled everything out and then realized I hadn't marked the field that asks if you want to share your specs as "yes". Should be working now. I can...

Hey guys! So I just recently got another 5870 to do crossfire, and am having some issues. Keep in mind that I'm running Sapphire cards which I have flashed with the unlocked ASUS voltage tweak bios. When I first put the two cards together, my old one (which I will call "card1") was the one...

Instead of PSU issues it sounds more like a motherboard bios compatibility issue to me. I had a 5770 paired up with a Asus P5N E-SLI (nForce 650i) and at first the screen would not show any display. The power was working fine, the fan on the card spun and there was no shut down issues, I...