To close this debate, I think it is useful to understand the user's mentality. I have no interest building rigs, fiddling with BIOS or setting any "K" parameters myself. I know how to, but it bores me to death. If a stylish superquiet rig satisfying my requirements was available off the shelf...
@cerb
If you read my original post, you know that the "beyond a wall" location is what I currently use.
I don't buy your recco for a "K". I will not overclock, my fanless PSU is limited to 500 W, and AnandTech Tests (they had a special on "S" chips a few weeks ago) show that they are ample...
I appreciate suggestions to look at Asus' Strix version of the 980, of which I was not aware. I will certainly try it if not satisfied with the reference 980 that I already own.
As for Dry Martini's, I did not know they existed in Scotland. Give me a good single malt everyday...
Hi. You make good points.
I only play with headphones when PVP'g with my guild. In that case I route Beethoven (or other...) through the monitoring Sennheisers with low game audio and just enough TeamSpeak to have crisp conversations. In that case, of course, box noise is less of a problem...
I am a musician. Not Garage or Rap, more Brahms & Bach. And in my sound-proofed music room, I also like to play video games.
I demand a state-of-the-art picture so I use a Dell 30inch monitor with 2560 x 1600 definition. And I roam Tamriel listening to Beethoven, Clockwork Orange style, on...
Mem :
You are very kind to post all this which may be useful to many. In my case as I am a retired scientist with a grounding in IT you can bet I knew it, and have gone much further in my testing, using two identical rigs one with V64 and the other V32. When using very high end settings and...
Mem. I never joke.
Go to :
http://www.microsoft.com/windo...le%20Playing&os=32-bit
And click the 64 bits tab.
However, I may be wrong and my crashes may come from conflicting mods. They tend to happen when exiting towns, in particular Bravil. I'll do more testing.
I tend to be an early adopter, and I made the mistake to go Vista 64bit, thinking 64 would open up the future (and more RAM as we all know) After changing countless drivers I've got a good top end system now, that really delivers FPS on all the later games tested in AnandTech... except Oblivion...
Until last month, the top GPU power in a laptop came from twin Nvidia 7950 cards which are nearly two years old as desktop hardware. In the past Nvidia took about four to six months to come out with the mobile version of their cards. But the wait for the M 8800 GTX has been nearly a year and a...
The advent of the Mobile 8800 GTX has created a new category of uberlaptops that can now be seriously considered as desktop replacement for finicky gamers. They are heavy 17 inches 1920 x 1200 machines with processors such as the E 7900 or X6800 and two 8800 M GTX in SLI. Battery life is a joke...
Resolution is the key factor. I always use 2650 x 1600 on my Dell monitor, and AA becomes a non-issue because pixel size is so small. Crysis, Witcher, Oblivion, are all better at high resolution and no AA, rather than lo res and high AA.
Yes and No.
This indeed is the usual workaround (with the KB 929777 installed when in two bars of RAM) and from my experience on 4 machines, it has worked twice. On the other two I was never able to re-boot Vista 64 when adding the two other sticks.
Now the Striker Extreme mother boards...
Yes, I know that plenty of configs do not have the problem, and I know about KB 929777 which does solve the problem some times, but not all of times.
However with :
Asus Striker Extreme (a classic well respected 680i mobo)
QX 6850 processor (ditto...)
4 bars of 1g memory (ie all slots...
There imust be some major name calling going on behind the scenes between Microsoft, Nvidia and Mobo and Memory stick manufacturers over this unresolved issue.
Thz thread at MS :
http://forums.microsoft.com/te...7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=17
has been alive since the spring of 2007 and seen...
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