Really?
Holy False Advertising. you would think with the X-Fi moniker and very similar positioning of both these cards, the difference would be much less subtle that 'No Hardware Acceleration'.
Thanks for the Reply Snyder.
I'm still running XP, so I don't expect the Crappy Vista Direct...
Does anyone know the difference between the Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Card, and the X-Fi XtremeAudio Card?
They appear to have the same hardware specs.
Possibly different software package to justify the $40 price difference.
I want to use it for gaming, is the additional $40...
I had a PC with similar problem.
I know your temps look good, but try re-seating your heatsink. Use a good thermal compound - I picked up a tube of artic silver cermique(?) at Radio Shack for a few bucks.
Just scrape off all of the old thermal compound, clean the contact surface (I...
Thanks for the reply.
I also suspected that their would be a setting (check box) under the drive properties, but I couldn't find one.
I didn't install the F6 drivers. Aren't they really only for installing the OS onto a RAID array?
One thing I think may be causing the problem is that...
I just finished building a system based in an EVGA 680i (A1). Installed XP Pro with a SATA WD Raptor installed in Channel 4 (I think).
The Raptor is the only hard drive and contains the OS partition
When XP installed, the WD Raptor was detected as new Hardware. Now I have the option of...
Crazy pricing on the E6850:
MWave has it for $280....Now Out of Stock
I bought one from Newegg yesterday for $315......OUCH!
Now Newegg is showing them at $345.....OUCH!....OUCH!
Apparently someone at the Egg cracked opened up an Economics book overnight.
I see the E6850 on MWAVE but not Newegg.
I suspect Newegg is trying to push out their glut of E6600s before showing the E6850 for sale. Hmmm.... Conspiracy.
They are basically going to be at the same price point.
Too bad Newegg... Now my sale must go to MWAVE.
I wouldn't state it as ANGRILY as you did, but I think most rational people would agree. It is obvious that, in general, the race to Squeak out Mhz is bieng superceeded by the race to crame as many cores on a chip as possible.
The necessity for races aside, multi-core computing WILL be the...
Twitch,
Thanks for the info. Do you know if the 680 is slated to have Kentsfield support, or are you locked into AM2 Procs?
I'm an AMD guy at heart, but it's time to try Intel with the Core 2 Duo and ultimately the Kentsfield.
An Interesting read:
Valve goes Multicore
I wouldn't be so quick to discount the planning of game developers, WRT the economics of gaming with mutiple cores.
Valve Goes Multicore
It appear Half-life 3 and possibly the next 'Mini-Episode' will both take FULL advantage of a Multi-Core (not just dual core), PC. This will happen, and...
Forgive my ignorance, but do these boards also support SLI?
If not, do any 975X boards support SLI or are we all locked into ATI if we want Core 2 Duo (and Kentsfield - quad-core) support?
-LA
Yes. I see what you're talking about. Thanks for the reply.
I suspect the new nForce Boards won't 'Officially' support Core-2-Quad.
Interesting, I wonder if it is a commercial or technical reason only Intel Chipset Mobo's are listed as offically supporting Kentsfield. I'm tempted to...
I consider myself semi-intelligent, but I cannot for the life of me, figure out a consistant rule for SLI compatability.
First I thought only Select nForce chipset Mobos would support it.
Then while investigating a Mobo upgrade to a P5B Deluxe Mobo, it appreas that some Intel Chipsets...
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