Recent content by Mad-Matt

This Motherboard only allows memory voltage changes in 0.5 increments and to get this OC stable requires me setting 1.45v although it should require a little less according to the dram calculator. Its in a closed case, SilverStone ML09 which doesn't have much ventilation. If heat wasn't an...

I have a Powercolor 7850 which I think is voltage locked as if I move the voltage slider a single notch lower/higher, my pc will blue screen when 3d clock speed kicks in. CPU Is an Intel Q6000 @3600. GFX is a Powercolour 7850 PCS+ clocked at 1190/1500 using Catalyst 13.9 drivers. And here...

This new tool is working well for me on my Powercolour PCS+ 7850. First Tool I can use that allows me to adjust and monitor vddc. It doesnt allow me to set any kind of powertune value though.

These look very nice, and would be a nice upgrade for a cramped case and/or funny slot alignment. The picture seems to show only 1 crossfire connector. The cooling appears to be the same as the sapphire single slot coolers on my 3870 cards (apart from the colour). and should be fine with fan...

I notice that the Legacy drivers have also been updated to 10.2. my 1950pro crossfire gets application profiles in win7 now yay ! ahem ...

This is not an end to driver support for the older cards. It just means not regular monthly updates. There will still be hotfix driver updates for older cards if required. This isnt realy bad news as the older cards have really gone as far as there going to go. I still have a crossfire 1950...

The Vista AGP Gart issue could have been partly ati's fault as well as nvidia's. Last working catalyst version is 7.7 on my vista based Abit NF2 system. Ati changed (broke?) something in cat 7.8+ and nvidia wouldnt issue a gart update to help things along and ensure full vista NF2 chipset support.

Black and red go so well together, much better then blues that normaly get thrown into every case. If I didnt already have the nzxt tempest (With all blues changed to reds) id deffinatly concider this case.

Did I just read that Intel are openly gonna cheat with a special demo cpu because they believe amd MAY have used a special demo cpu ? ;)

Its a pretty poor showing unless that QX9770 is some extreme heat edition ;) My Xigmatech is keeping my overclocked Q6600 (3.6ghz) at under 60c for normal use and 64c is highest ive seen it go running inteltat for an hour or so. That was durring british summer (if it can be called that lol)...

XP Wasnt too bad on release. My system at the time was a Celern300a @490, faster and more compatable then win2k was, although I Dual booted win98 and Xp for a while while until the games were better supported on xp. Vista seems to be red herring in the sense it seems to be more of a stepping...

cant help with the back button, I do miss that too, although some older windows progs still show it so its up to the app i guess. The information panel on the side of the window is simply Organize/Layout option on all windows. to sort by modification date, you just need to select 'more' in...

My First thaught looking at the pic is a Modern version of the spectrum microdrive ;)

Disabling superfetch wont reduce performance. it means you can use system right away instead of waiting an hour for it to finish loading stuff to mem each day Hurts more the more mem you have to fill. Even better, if you use sleep mode alot, stuff you have loaded will already be cached in mem...

Is this the return of the hardware feature of the radeon 8500 ? I forget the name, but used nPatches. If i remember right it increased number of triangles to improve the models. Only game I had that used it was UT99 i think, and it seemed to squish the models abit .