That's either a straight up lie or just plain ignorance. Power delivery was enforced at a hardware level with the 900 series. You can modify values all you want in the vBIOS but if you want more power flowing you had to physically disable the shunt resistors on the cards.
i7-920 @ 3.6
1680x1050
GTX 570 @ 850/2200 (16% core OC)
everything maxed out
min observed FPS in the low 30's, about 33-34...mostly in long draw distance situations with lots of foliage. I would say a stock clock GTX 570 would be pretty close to a minimum for complete max out @...
I am shopping for a BF3 video card solution too and also at a low resolution like you (im at 1680x1050). I've found that under 1080p the nvidia cards are much faster with significantly higher minimum framerates. nvidia/amd reach parity right around 1080p with the amd cards pulling ahead as...
i would go with a 920 with 6GB kit. You can save some on the CPU and mobo and put it into RAM. I think overall you will come out on top. Also, you should double check cdfreaks and see what the best optical drive at the moment is. I doubt it is the Lite On and more likely it is the Optiarc.
Spend time overclocking. You can easily operate in the mid-3Ghz range well within stock voltages for everything. Also on the software side, msconfig is your friend.
He probably fried it himself. I think maybe you can have him drop of the machine and spend a couple hours with it. If the chip is dead I'd probably return his money even though you're not at fault. I would settle the issue with a clear conscience and consider it a loss. Just learn from the...
I ran the all of the Everest memory benches and DPC Latency checker and there is no difference on my system, doing 5 runs of each benchmark and averaging the numbers (the results did bounce around slightly even with the computer totally idling). In DPC latency checker there was also no...
Which Everest benchmarks in particular?
I'm asking because I'm in the middle of a big encode on my computer and I cannot restart it now to find out for myself. I'll run them as soon as this is done later today though.
I'm of the opposite opinion. If my CPU is overclocked and overvolted there is no way I would want it to remain at that state if I am idling. Also, I don't think switching takes any perceivable time at all for these features. Even though I'm no expert on C1E or EIST, we are talking about...
I'm running a full ATX performance rig out of Lanbox Lite and mATX just fine. 920 with everything on @ 181bclk, geminii s, 4890, etc. No corners cut.
Temps are higher than what full size ATX'ers are reporting but remain at 24/7 usable levels nonetheless. You do have to do more research on...
Try changing your DRAM voltage to 1.575. That is the max on the data sheet for your memory modules.
I would suggest you find a fast and reliable way of crashing your computer. It can save you a lot of time trying to find the problem. Download prime95 and see if you can pass the benchmark...
Tell us what BCLK/MULTI combination you are using, all of your multipliers and voltages. The good news is that you will probably need only a very small tweak to get 3.0 completely stable. I suspect something with the memory because you left the vdimm untouched and unintentionally OC'ed your...
1. The stock cooler if fine at stock speeds. Don't skimp on thermal compound though, pick a good one and make sure you get a good application.
2. Get a new optical drive. This has to do with higher quality burns at faster speeds rather than IDE or SATA.
3. Vista is great, but at this...
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