Recent content by blixx1981

LOL that's an insult to Phenom. A theoretical Phenom III would have been better than Zambezi. :p

:laugh: Funny you mention that, 2 weeks after I upgraded my Board, Ram, Case and added the second card, I got downsized. I feel your pain.

And to think I upgraded my board from an ASUS M4A79 to a Sabertooth 990FX in preparation for the Zambezi..... :banghead: Guess I'm stickin with the x6 1100T AGREED!! :toast:

Oh indeed sir, we didn't get around to running OC'd Benchmarks as we work helpdesk @ IBM and got busy. I'd like to OC my card some more but I'm afraid to mess with voltages. But as far as head to head graphics, Crysis Warhead runs the same on max settings on both cards. Too bad that playing...

My Buddie just got a 5870, I have a 4870x2, I brought my rig to work one night and we benchmarked my pc with his card in it, and then again with my card in it. 3DMark Vantage posted a 1301 point higher score with his 5870 but with my card in, I had a higher CPU score by over 130 points. Not sure...

Gotta add me too. however not sure what clock speeds to post for it... Highest CORE clock: 822/945 Highest MEM clock: 800/1000 (Could go higher but not gonna chance it) Blixx1981|ASUS Tri Fan|802Mhz /1000Mhz

See I read that and was kinda confused, cause that link says:

So I have an ASUS 4870x2 with the 3 fans, when I go into Catalyst is says the card has 3836MB or memory. What's the deal with this? Is the card using system memory as well as the card memory? IF so, I thought DX10 cards were designed to not use system memory. Rig: Processor: AMD 940 Phenom...

GAH! that's retarded. I was hoping I could find a loop hole in it all and still get away with using the faster memory. So should I just hold off until march when the new chipset is released and get the 945 on an AM3 mobo?

OK something just occurred to me. if I'm going to use the Phenom II 940 (which is designed for DDR3) on and the AM2+ mobo, wouldn't I be able to use DDR1066 in all mem banks? since it was the original Phenoms that limited the DDR1066 to only 1 mem bank per channel?

hmmm good ole reliable kingston. this time i wanted to go high end ram. i was thinking mushkin, ive heard nothing bad about them

ok yeah sorry lol id be limited to just 4 gigs of 1066. so who do you suggest as far as brand?

So I'm building a pc that's going to last me a some years before i gotta build a new one. I'm going with a Phenom II X4 940, Asus M3A79-T, and an Asus variant of the 4870X2. Ok so the board is rated for DDR2-1066 but can only run 1066 in 1 bank per channel. Why allow 1066 in only one bank per...

when you overclock the cpu you generally need to overclock the ram too. in your case it seems just a little bit. research over clocking the ram, changing your timings and latency may help get you to a stable point.

oh duh im sorry yeah your right, but he is now getting the the board with on board graphics isn't he