Recent content by Xanath2511

My current system is sporting an older AMD Phenom II X4 B55 OC @ 3.6GHz and I am looking to alleviate a potential performance bottleneck by upgrading soon -- I don't want to replace my mobo just yet and I am stuck with am3+ at 95w TDP. Any recommendations? I am mostly trying to find out whether...

I recently purchased a Sapphire r9 280 Dual-X graphics card as my budget was ~$200. I typically stick with Nvidia cardsand was unaware of the coming mid-range 960 GPU until I saw the release today -- I wanted to get some opinions on whether it would be worth it to trade in my AMD card for the...

I was just looking at CPU-Z after you requested a screenshot and noticed that the L3 cache does not appear to be unlocked (or exist?) Any suggestions or input here? (I solved the other problem from my PM)

lol @ the CPU comment. I don't have the console enabled currently for FPS count on Borderlands, and until recently I did have PhysX manually enabled on its higher setting. (have not attempted gameplay since I made the change.) As far as D3 goes, idling in town I get ~90fps and in large intense...

I will get back to you folks with some answers later this evening, I'm at work right now. :banghead: Thanks for all of your replies!

I recently purchased a Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X 3GB graphics card to improve my systems gaming performance and have noticed in some scenarios there is a very noticeable performance boost, while in others, I'm seeing little to nothing at all. One example would be that I can play Middle-Earth...

Yeah, it looks like under Catalyst Control Center it just puts it automatically into AMD Overdrive rather than having to manually select it. Thanks again for your help! Most grateful.

Is that button for boost? Hence being on a separate bios?

It seems like this did the trick! As far as I can tell I am on the second bios now and everything is going smoothly -- are there are drawbacks to this performance wise or anything I should know? Also, is the original bios I was running on just fried or can I flash this bios (already saved a...

I'll give it a shot, get back to you with my results as soon as can! Thank you.

Are you speaking in regards to legacy compatibility mode? Clearly I don't know much about the whole GPU bios, hence my current state of things.. :/

Thanks for the reply, this is actually the bios I installed earlier this afternoon which seems to have put me in the predicament I am currently in. :(

I had a new Sapphire Dual-X r9 280 3GB come in from Amazon today and I really won't go into too much details, suffice to say I did some toying around with flashing the bios that I never should have done because I thought the card was having issues right out of the box (still unsure if anything...