Recent content by Tanquen

I know if you use any scaling some pop-ups and stuff look bad in Windows. Like they take a bitmap and then resize it. Why does scaling change anything when working with raster graphics? Do they just look a little soft with zoomed at 100%. I work with raster and vector graphics and it seems okay...

No we want 16x10 displays. :)

They all advertise the highest res and refresh, using it was another matter, with the video cards and ram they had and then the monitor and how readable text was at a given CRT size and res and refresh. My memory is bad but at the time most everything was 1280x1024. I was not buying displays...

Not at all. Higher Hz was rare and normally meant a lower res on a CRT. When LCDs came out for the desktop games looked worse but office and dev work was so much better. Could read the text better and It was so odd having a ture square (pincushion!) flat screen. :)

Yes, I've seen a few videos on that and I've played some First Person Shooters on the TV at 120Hz and it can see a little difference but it just not night and day for me. I'm just too old now. I'd still like the option. It's essayer to see when moving the mouse and moving windows around the...

What kind of games really benefit ? Been playing for 30+ years at 60Hz and game that run well look great. It just a little smother and competitive FPS can see a tinny benefit if you play at the upper 1%. I just noticed with my LG C9 77 OLED that can do 120Hz, the windows moved smother and the...

It would be perfect but again the 2023 model has no VRR, HDR, and is stuck at 60Hz. Even just 120Hz is nice to have on the desktop not just for games. Dell won't even add 75 or 100Hz on a $800-$1000 display. I little brighter, very little and a little better colors. No need to upgrade from my...

"it also has two M.2 drives slots for NVMe drives, typically used as cache storage" Will it let you do anything else with it? I got two SSDs for my DS-1821+ and was disappointed to find out that you can only use them as a read-only or read-write cache to a volume and once you do link it to a...

It's like I did not even post. :(

Ok, but… 3DMark scores are not worth much. We know crossfire don’t scale at 100% and is radically different from game to game and from video card series to series. When you run two 7970s that is the sweet spot, 2 GPUs and you can see a 50-90% bump in some games. When you run 2 5970s your...

I’ve done some more testing with my new setup and the CPU is not an issue. In Batman AC and a few other titles I have to down clock the 3930k to below 2GHz before the frame rates start to drop. So my old Q9450 was just fine and I think Black Panthers E8400 would be just fine as well. Even with I...

I’ve not messed with the overclock yet but it looks like the 7970 would still be slower. Your paying twice the price for almost (maybe) the same speed of an almost 2+ year old card. The only real advantages I see would be no more crossfire issues that the 5970 has. Some games crash or are slower...

You can “go past a 7970” just find a used 5970 for half the cost of the 7970 and you’ll have a faster card. :)

New 7970 is slower than my old 5970, am I missing something? FYI: I’m going to be putting together a new build and got the 7970 and am trying it out on my current system. I’ve checked a few games and while it seems to be a little smoother the 7970 is putting out noticeable fewer frames than...

I returned the Asus and got a DFI board. Same chipsets but it doesn’t have this issue. It has some other issues that have to do with the SATA drives but it just causes some slow boot times.