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Good-bye?- Anandtech

Sad news about AnandTech. I started reading articles from AnandTech in 1999 to date, and joined the forums in 2003, but haven't been active on the forums since 2015. I hope the forums stay around and the existing AnandTech content stays available in the future. People like to say the internet...
- Matt84
- Post #224
- Sep 1, 2024
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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AMD 7970 original. Is it still a good card for gaming?

It is almost as fast as an AMD 280X so a mid range card by today's standards. What resolution are you playing at? As long as it is 1080p or lower and you don't go for absolute max detail and crazy AA settings, it is still good enough for most games. A mate of mine has a 3770K with a 7950 and he...
- Matt84
- Post #2
- Feb 28, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Samsung 850 Pro is awesome

Turn RAPID off and you will get true Samsung 850 Pro numbers. RAPID is RAM caching
- Matt84
- Post #12
- Oct 20, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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ZIP disks? ZIP drives?

Chuck them on Ebay, someone will probably buy them.
- Matt84
- Post #10
- Oct 20, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Assassin's Hardware Guide

Is the blog down?
- Matt84
- Post #30
- Jul 26, 2014
- Forum: Home Theater PCs
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Limitation of Integrated Video?

iGPU is fine. I just upgraded from an AMD X2 5200+ with a AMD 5570 GPU to a i3 4130 using the HD4400 and I must say I was overall impressed with the iGPU. The only short coming was deinterlacing which is nowhere near as good as AMD's vector adaptive deinterlacing. Tuner wise TunerSalad works...
- Matt84
- Post #19
- May 29, 2014
- Forum: Home Theater PCs
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Gigabyte 780 GHZ - strange noise

I have the 2x Gigabyte 780 OC with WindForce cooler and one of my card's makes this noise and only at idle. Put it under load, fan spins up and noise goes away, fan spins down, noise still gone...... until it comes back. I contacted Gigabyte but they fobbed me off saying it was normal.
- Matt84
- Post #4
- May 6, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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ASUS,MSI or ASROCK

I think it is a much of a muchness really. I've had ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock and over the last 17 years have had good ones and some shockers from all of them. Currently I run an ASUS board and couldn't be happier. I've just upgraded my media center to a Gigabyte H81 and lets just say it...
- Matt84
- Post #29
- Feb 1, 2014
- Forum: Motherboards
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Haswell Stock Coolers - Good or Bad?

Thanks everyone, I have read up on the Haswell TIM issue, and understand that most of the time my CPU will be almost running at idle when decoding 1080p and below content. I do a bit of video encoding using the HTPC, which can run it at load for 30 minutes or more at a time, so the use case of...
- Matt84
- Post #29
- Jan 28, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Haswell Stock Coolers - Good or Bad?

I just upgraded my HTPC to an Intel i3 4130 running on a Gigabyte H81 board and decided to give the stock cooler a go, but I am pretty disappointed with the cooler's performance. My desktop is an i7 4770K running at stock with a Coolermaster Seidon 240M liquid cooler and that idles at ambient...
- Matt84
- Thread
- Jan 27, 2014
- Replies: 40
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is this common problem with Gigabyte Windforce 3x 770 \ 780 crashing?

The temps are not too high. My 2x780s with the Windforce cooler, one sits at 80c and the other at 89c under heavy load due to the bottom card cooking the top card. No stability issues with the cards themselves. As soon as I put a second 780 in my system was unstable but I fixed that with a...
- Matt84
- Post #20
- Jan 5, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia 780 price drop and comparison questions

NZXT Phantom 410 with stock fans at the moment.
- Matt84
- Post #28
- Nov 1, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia 780 price drop and comparison questions

Ah that makes sense now. In the summer months I may have to get a large side fan to help cool my pair. At full load they dump a tonne of heat into my case to the extent where my mainboard temperature is substantially higher than my CPU temperature when gaming.
- Matt84
- Post #24
- Oct 31, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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NV 780 GTX buyers remorse from AMD 290X card

If I had paid AU 1300 for a titan, right now I would not be happy. You could see the Titan debacle happening a mile off though.
- Matt84
- Post #105
- Oct 31, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia 780 price drop and comparison questions

Yep I should have got blowers. My previous 5870 wasn't a blower and it was whisper quiet compared to my mates blower, which was why I chose a non blower for my 780s. Now the bottom one cooks the top one. If going one blower and one not, wouldn't it be better to make the bottom one the blower?
- Matt84
- Post #21
- Oct 31, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia 780 price drop and comparison questions

I got a gigabyte factory overclocked 780 rated 954MHz stock and 1006MHz boost and in games and even in Furmark it would give me a constant 1050+MHz as the TDP and temperature limits were not tripped. It seemed to perform quicker than Titan in games going by reviews with similar CPU...
- Matt84
- Post #2
- Oct 30, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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High res card for Windows 2000?

No point installing the drivers without having the card installed.
- Matt84
- Post #8
- Oct 30, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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NV 780 GTX buyers remorse from AMD 290X card

Pricing in Australia has always been bad. Even when the AUD was at parity with the USD, we would still pay on average 30% more like we did when 1 AUD == 0.7 USD. Someone along the supply chain has been pocketing 30% in pure profit but this could be anywhere along the supply chain. I purchased a...
- Matt84
- Post #102
- Oct 29, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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PSU for Older Computer

Thanks ISV. I looked into Seasonic a bit more and found the S12-II 520w as the 500ET doesn't seems to be available in Australia. It seems even though they rate the 3.3 and 5 volt rails as max 120W, a few reviews showed that it went above that with no issues when there is little load on the 12v...
- Matt84
- Post #4
- Apr 2, 2012
- Forum: Power Supplies
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PSU for Older Computer

I have an old PC that I keep for playing my older games with the following specs: Intel Celeron 1000A (Tualatin based) MSI 694T (MS-6309) with ISA Slot 512MB PC133 SDRAM 64MB 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP 4MB Matrox m3D (PowerVR PCX2) PCI Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA...
- Matt84
- Thread
- Apr 1, 2012
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Is there good (FREE) hdd cloning SW?

Macrium Reflect Free Edition
- Matt84
- Post #19
- Jul 12, 2010
- Forum: Windows
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"Kings of Multimedia Playback" HTPC card shootout

I would put this down to ATI's driver settings under Catalyst Control Center. If "Enforce Smooth Playback" is enabled (Default) post processing and deinterlacing features get enabled/disabled on the fly. The drivers have a nasty habbit of disabling features even though the card you have has more...
- Matt84
- Post #7
- Jul 5, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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SSD and Defrag.

You can do it but it will do nothing to your performance and just use up your flash write cycles
- Matt84
- Post #7
- Nov 18, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Which card does everyone have?

This needs to be changed from radio buttons to checkboxes. I have in current systems: ATI 4850 - Original space heater version 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 - In my old games machine
- Matt84
- Post #46
- Nov 18, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Free Disk Imaging Software?

I haven't used Gost 14 so can't comment on it being hard to use. I use Macrium Reflect Free Edition to do drive imaging at home. It uses Volume Shadow Copy to do imaging live and as a part of the backup process creates a boot CD. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
- Matt84
- Post #2
- Oct 24, 2009
- Forum: Windows
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To AHCI or not to AHCI?

Only trouble I had with AHCI is my SATA DVD drive will not detect as a RW drive. As a result I cannot burn anything with CDBurnerXP. For now I still stick to IDE mode.
- Matt84
- Post #4
- Aug 22, 2009
- Forum: Computer Building
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Wireless N routers worth it?

depends what you use it for. If it is wireless just for Internet and checking emails then stick with G for now. If you need to do large file transfers which you cannot possibly use a wired connection or you are streaming video then take a good look at wireless N even in its draft form. I can...
- Matt84
- Post #3
- Aug 19, 2009
- Forum: Networking
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AntiVirus for Windows Servers?

We had exaclty the same issues with McAfee 8.0 and 8.5 on our old single core developer workstations. It was so bad that compilation times of less than 1 minute with the resident protection disabled would take over 15 with it enabled. Complaining to management fell on deaf ears until one...
- Matt84
- Post #8
- Aug 19, 2009
- Forum: Networking
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Any advantage to Draft-N for networking?

For me Wireless N gave me a massive boost in performance for streaming video from my NAS to HTPC. I can transfer over a distance of about 10 metres, diagonally through three walls, at a sustained speed between 8MB/s and 10MB/s when there are very few other AP's active on the 2.4GHz band. If...
- Matt84
- Post #7
- Aug 19, 2009
- Forum: Networking
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Draft N wifi

One or two G clients which aren't constantly using the network connection don't have much of an impact on my N network. With only my usual single N wirless HTPC connected to my AP I can get sustained transfer rates of 8 to 10 megabytes per second. When my friends come over with their two older G...
- Matt84
- Post #16
- Jul 17, 2009
- Forum: Networking
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Memory issue

The task manager is showing the true useable amout of memory; Mpilich is not correct because although the BIOS is recognising the full 4GB, Windows cannot address it. The system properties show 4GB as the amount of memory install and not the amount of memory usable. To use 4GB you must meet...
- Matt84
- Post #7
- Apr 3, 2009
- Forum: Laptops
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Looking to switch my network to N

I have a DNS 323 which is almost identical hardware wise to the 321 and flashed to the latest (1.05 at the moment) firmware you get Jumbo Frames support. With the frame size set to 9000 I get sustained 30MB/s reads and 20MB/s writes. Somtimes I've seen it peak as high as 40MB/s reads and 25MB/s...
- Matt84
- Post #9
- Dec 26, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Good N router with 1000 mbps switch and supports tons of torrent connections

I have the DLink DIR 655 which has a 1000Mbps switch and excellent N range and speed even in a congested 2.4GHz area, provided you keep away from the 1.2x firmware versions. This is because the later firmware versions correclty implement the good neighbor policy which switches you back from...
- Matt84
- Post #2
- Dec 26, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Vista 64 & 4850 Issues?

I just built a HD 4850 setup running Vista Business 64bit and have had no problems what so ever. If you are concerned about the heat generated by the reference design then I recommend you look into the MSI card I bought as the idle temperature is 50C and the highest I've seen mine under load is...
- Matt84
- Post #27
- Sep 18, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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FTP Server - Where do I start?

Since you have Windows Server 2003, why don't you use the FTP server bundled with IIS6?
- Matt84
- Post #3
- Nov 15, 2006
- Forum: Windows
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AGP Video Card Recommendation

The 7600GT looks interesting. I do not have a set budget as I usually buy at the best price/performance level regardless of the cost involved.
- Matt84
- Post #5
- Oct 1, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AGP Video Card Recommendation

Hi I have an nVidia GF4Ti4600 which has served me well for the last 4 years but now it is time for an upgrade. My options: 6800GS 7600GS 7800GS I am looking for a price/performance balance as I will also be upgrading my PSU. What gotchas are associated with cards based upon the above...
- Matt84
- Thread
- Sep 30, 2006
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Does anyone have their My Documents and Desktop folders located on a secondary drive?

Yep I always move it to a secondary drive. It means if I have to reinstall my OS I do not have to worry about forgetting to backup my latest version of My Documents.
- Matt84
- Post #4
- Sep 19, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Problem with D-Link DWL-650+ wireless network card

Its the cards drivers i think. They aren't that stable. I have teh same card in my Toshiba Satellite 1410 and it reboots sometimes. If u disable the auto reboot, it shows some driver irq less than equal error which equates to a software driver problem usually. It only happens to me on shutdown...
- Matt84
- Post #3
- Aug 14, 2005
- Forum: Networking
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Windows & USB 2.0 problem

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but there is a known problem with Windows XP SP2 and VIA USB 2.0 controllers used on mainboards with VIA chipsets or standalone USB 2.0 PCI cards. See this VIAArena Thread and the microsoft kb link as well
- Matt84
- Post #9
- Aug 6, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building

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