Recent content by straybeat

The wife has a 256 megger and I have the 512. We're both running the 8.7's on Vista Ultimate and they work fine. I had to get it to make Halo play alright and I just went ahead and did the wife's machine at the same time. We haven't had any problems at all except that the cards both slowed down...

I just bought a Gateway P-6860FX here in the States at Best Buy for $1249.00 USD. It has exactly everything you listed, except that the processor is 1.83 instead of 2.5Ghz. The basic specs are; Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processor T5550; 4GB DDR2 memory; DL DVD±RW/CD-RW drive; Labelflash...

Help with XP4000 Hi Zebbo, I bought the XP4000 2 X 1 Gig a week ago after reading the old post/thread above and I can't get my system to run more than an hour before a BSOD. I get a "Page fault in a non-paged area" error (or something to that effect). I'm running a new P4 3.4 Prescott...

I'm using the latest version of ATI Tray Tools with the Pro AGP version. I overclocked it from 575/1380 to 655/1500 so far. Edit: I thought I'd add that I'm using the Warcat 6.12 drivers. Gave me 800 more points in 3DM05 than the 6.12 ATI drivers. I'm also using my old Zalman VF-700 and...

Did you want the PCI-e or the AGP version? It looks like you got the PCI-e version as the AGP is the one with the IceQ on it, AFAIK. Also, the AGP version isn't supposed to be out for another couple of weeks and it's been rumored to go for $370.00 in the states. Mark

1. I saw that firingsquad report too, so I waited for the other suckers... er... guys to buy it first. :D They're reporting great benchies in the other forums. So I would have to somewhat disagree with firingsquad. 2. I've been using my old VF-700 and heatsinks on the Visiontek and got great...

I've been running the Visiontek version since it came out. It blows my X850 away gaming-wise. Now the wife is inheriting the Visiontek and I'm going for the 512 meg Sapphire when the next batch is out. Don't know why they only made it available with 12 pipes, and there are none to upgrade to...

I've been using my old VF-700 on my Visiontek X1950 Pro since a day after I bought the card. It works fine and gave me a lot better OC. Stray

Ah it's Christmas, too much food to try and type too! :roll:

With the Visiontek card the speeds are 575/1380 stock. For the other X1950 Pro AGP users out there trying to overclock, this was my experience: I had to use the "Find Max for GPU" function in ATT in order to find the highest setting where the card finally crashed. It was 664 for me, so I...

I don't know about the memory, but my GPU ran 46C to the 70's under load with the stock HSF. I threw on my old Zalman 700 and it never went over 38C. I also got a much better overclock then too, of course. I'm running 655/1340 currently. Also, download the latest ATI Tray Tools. It handles...

Download the 6.11 Warcat driver and try it to fix the bad framerates. I benched between Warcat and the ATI driver with my X1950 (AGP though) and 3DMark05 went up 800 points. All of my problems with FEAR, Doom3, etc. cleared right up. Stray

With that video card you're going to want at least a 550 watt power supply (I have the X850 XT PE) they suck a lot of juice. But back on the laptop side, Fry's has a Compaq V2710US that's like $530 with a rebate that brings it to about $470. I bought one for the wife a couple weeks ago, then...