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    Westone ES5 Custom In-ears

    Nice review. You should take a look at the ACS T1 custom in ears. Again around the $1000 mark. Only 3 drivers but a very nice sound. Seems very balanced but is very capable of BASS! I got a set for demoing to clients ;) and am mighty impressed with them while playing BC2...
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    AMD Cayman, Antilles Specifications Surface

    The memory bottleneck was a myth on the 5xxx series. You could over clock the memory on my old 5970 from 1000 - 1200 and gain a few percent performance. Overclocking the GPU on the other hand form 725 - 900 was a HUGE jump in performance. The problem with the cards was a lack of memory on...
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    5870 DP issue on wakeup w/Dell 2408

    To be honest most games I have tried have worked fine with no problems apart from borderlands which has a sort of fix at widescreenforum. I am only playing bc2 at the moment and have only really played that since i got my three screens. Dragon age was very nice on three screens though. For...
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    5870 DP issue on wakeup w/Dell 2408

    It is funny I have been going to try one of the adapters as well to see if it stopped the native display port problems. We are (and it seems a good few more people dotted round the planet) are having problems with native display port going to sleep for no reason and only thing that sorts it...
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    5870 DP issue on wakeup w/Dell 2408

    It does have to said that Sapphire have said to me since day 1 it was ATI driver fault. I have just not seen other people complaining about any other manufacturers doing the same thing. It could just be that most people have bought the dell due to all the reviews being done on them. I am...
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    Sapphire 5970 memory voltage

    Sapphire released another bios fairly recently. I think it may be number 3 or 4. They hoped it may sort a cold bug start up with water cooling and DP ports going to sleep and some other stuff. It may be worth contacting sapphire support and getting the files. Did you have to do anything...
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    Galaxy Readies Dual-Fermi Graphics Card

    I don't think what I was trying to say was very clear. On that card yes. Other cards that have the newer bios still all on stock heatsink are cooler and use less power. I am not talking just about the zotac card. Will sticking a finger on the fan stop it pulling current even more because it...
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    Galaxy Readies Dual-Fermi Graphics Card

    Yeah I know I read Wizz's review of that. That card is using a different bios at the moment and we still don't know what they have done to reduce power use and temps (magic voo doo dust I think :toast:) Sadly we cant get current, voltage and power readings from all relevant parts of the card to...
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    5870 DP issue on wakeup w/Dell 2408

    I suppose it could be the 5870 ports as the 5970 is just two 5870 down clocked. It only seems to effect dell monitors (apart from the new 27" which I assume uses the same port as the rest of the 11's) it does seem to be a bit weird. Sapphire tech just got me to try every bios they had tehn...
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    Galaxy Readies Dual-Fermi Graphics Card

    I thought that pcie v2 could do 150w not 75w like pcie v1. I could be wrong though and not for the first time :eek: Like the others this just seems wrong. To get it working they would need to down clock it too much. Sli scaling is not that far off the 5xxx series many many sites have done...
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    5870 DP issue on wakeup w/Dell 2408

    Well hopefully you get somewhere. I got a call from a supervisor after my last call to ask why I did not want any replacements sent out. I explained the situation (dell uk seem to use a foreign call centre that struggled with my scottish accent ;)) at great length. She eventually accepted that...
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    Sapphire 5970 memory voltage

    Great thanks for the reply. Now I just need to grow a set and try and flash the card. I have done several bios updates form sapphire which have been fairly easy. Just run a batch file from dos and it does everything. I can run mine at 850 1250 @1.173 / 1.15 but have it at 900 / 1100 at the...
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    5870 DP issue on wakeup w/Dell 2408

    Well I have just cancelled the replacements all together with dell. Too much hassle to have the same problem all over again. I will look and wait and possibly get the hp ips screens and just use these ones at work. Dell tried to help but only wanted to send out replacements albeit a few...
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    5870 DP issue on wakeup w/Dell 2408

    I have had this problem with all 4 bios for my sapphire card. It does seem to just be more of a problem with the dell monitors. I am not really sure what to do next as I am going to go through the hassle of packing up my monitors to get 3 new ones that will do exactly the same.
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    5870 DP issue on wakeup w/Dell 2408

    That has been a bug in the drivers for a while. I have used most of the beta's that have been out since march. The problem has been in and out of various versions since then. It started with all 3 not going to sleep but now it is just the DP monitor unless of coarse it decides it no longer is...
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