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Alpenfoehn Peter 79XX Edition

Been conditioned to think Water + Elecy = Catastrophe
- Haider
- Post #3
- Nov 28, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Alpenfoehn Peter 79XX Edition

Hi, I'm think of replacing my Vapor-X cooling system on my Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X with Alpenfoehn Peter 79XX Edition and two 140mm or 120mm fans on a fan controller. Your thoughts would be welcome. Concerns: - My card is not a reference design, Not easy to install A review but on a...
- Haider
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- Nov 27, 2013
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Belial's Comprehensive Guide to 7950s!

Now we're on the same hymn sheet. My Enermax ETS-T40-TB HSF is a lot bigger. Vapor-X cooling system hasn't really delivered in terms of performance. My backup for this was situation was Alpenfoehn Peter 79XX Edition with 2 x 120mm Noiseblocker BlackSilent Pro Fan PL2 or 2 x 140mm Prolimatech...
- Haider
- Post #99
- Nov 27, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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How well do TVs work as monitors?

Correcto-mundo input lag is your first priority. http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/panasonic-tx-p50vt20b-tx-p50vt20-20100520694.htm My Panasonic tx-p50vt20 plasmas is about 3 years and has 17ms lag...
- Haider
- Post #17
- Nov 25, 2013
- Forum: Displays
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How well do TVs work as monitors?

Plasma is way ahead oled/led LCD...
- Haider
- Post #16
- Nov 25, 2013
- Forum: Displays
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Belial's Comprehensive Guide to 7950s!

I was running Furmark at 1080P and it hit 84C on Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X@1050MHz, the card fans were doing 100% and it downclocked to cool off...No heat issues in Crysis 1 runs at about 66C at 1080P with everything turned to highest setting...
- Haider
- Post #95
- Nov 25, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Belial's Comprehensive Guide to 7950s!

What I found in benchmarking was that running at 1050MHz at +20 makes my GPU temps hit 84C and the GPU start to go into thermal protection mode i.e. throttle down. Whilst playing Crysis 1 I was hit a peak of 70C and median was about 67C. So first things first is that thermals need improvement...
- Haider
- Post #92
- Nov 25, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Does Nvidia's lack of DX11.1 and DX11.2 matter?

They support the mandatory features but not the optional features hence the word optional...
- Haider
- Post #21
- Nov 25, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Belial's Comprehensive Guide to 7950s!

I use HWInfo for all the other temps. Real temp for CPU. I like the GPU-Z VRM temp, GPU temp, utilisation and speed. It's how I found out without the +20 the GPU speed was throttling at 950MHz. In the end I had to change PC case to keep the temps in check at +20%. I'm looking at getting a better...
- Haider
- Post #90
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Belial's Comprehensive Guide to 7950s!

Of course, if you fail a prime95 15min run you make changes to make your overclock stable i.e. voltage or lower the OC. Once you hit the speed you want to achieve and pass the 15 minute run, you leave it on an overnight run. If you pass that you should be good to go. If it's like a extreme...
- Haider
- Post #89
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Gaming midlife crisis

I kinda went through the same thing. In fact the games out there were a turn off. I was then introduced to Kickstarter and the passion has comeback with a vengeance: - Elite Dangerous - Commited http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znUVaUKn23o The Long Dark - To Commit...
- Haider
- Post #33
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: PC Games
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Unboring Games

Starting a thread here for you to post your suggestions/nominations. Something that is a bit different (in terms of gaming) something a bit more unusual in today's dreary gaming landscape. My nominations: - Elite Dangerous - Commited http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znUVaUKn23o The Long Dark -...
- Haider
- Thread
- Nov 20, 2013
- Replies: 1
- Forum: PC Games
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Belial's Comprehensive Guide to 7950s!

Why do people talk about Prime95, Linpack & Intel TAT when stress testing their CPU overclock? All of those stress your CPU way more than any game.
- Haider
- Post #85
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Belial's Comprehensive Guide to 7950s!

Interesting so if the game pushes the GPU enough then it will throttle due to available power. So one eye to the future you could increase to +50 as long as you upgrade the cooling system appropriately. For me I concentrate on the delta between peak frame-rate to minimum frame rate with a...
- Haider
- Post #84
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Belial's Comprehensive Guide to 7950s!

Don't be absurd! Lots of people do not play Prime95 or Linpack or Memtest but they are used for stress testing.
- Haider
- Post #83
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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How much longer will this cpu last?

I think you are barking up the wrong tree. The CPU is fine. I'm running an i-760@3.6GHz and 7950 Vapor-X@1050 with power limit set to +20% in Trixx. As I increase the speed of the GPU the faster games become. I think you want to concentrate on overclocking your graphics card rather than anything...
- Haider
- Post #38
- Nov 18, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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SanDisk SSD 64GB & SATA 2/AHCI

Hi, I recently bought a SanDisk SSD 64GB it is advertised UP TO 490 MB/s read & 240 MB/s write. It is installed in AHCI mode and I benchmarked it with HDTune Pro. I am getting 205 MB/s read which is well below the 300 MB/s SATA 2 speed. I believed I would get close to the SATA 2 speed of 300...
- Haider
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- Nov 12, 2013
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Elite Dangerous

Hi, I saw the Star Citizen thread being an Elite, X Wing, Tie Fighter, Wing Commander player. I though I would post this here: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbqyRzRXkRs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKJLgA4mwU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTU6Gat_ai4...
- Haider
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- Oct 23, 2013
- Replies: 0
- Forum: PC Games
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i5-760 Overclocking

@birthdaymonkey I like your set-up. Active crossover speakers8) Nice cans and good amp for them too, very nice.
- Haider
- Post #3
- Oct 14, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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i5-760 Overclocking

Hi, CPU: I5 760 2.8ghz @ 4.0ghz @ 1.285v 200 x 20 vtt 1.25v The above got me interested in OCing a bit further my i5-760. Obviously all chips are unique. I managed to run at 200 blck x 18 multiplier 3.6 GHZ, Vcore=1.225 and IMC/Vtt=1.20 rock solid stable with good temps on an overnight...
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- Oct 14, 2013
- Replies: 3
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The AMD Mantle Thread

Just a good headphone amp and headphones...
- Haider
- Post #759
- Oct 14, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Overclocking Voltages

Thanks for the update. I managed to run at 200 blck x 18 multiplier 3.6 GHZ, Vcore=1.225 and IMC/Vtt=1.2 rock solid stable with good temps on an overnight run of Prime95. I then moved onto try a x19 multiplier I moved the Vcore upto 1.245 and was still not able to get 3.8GHz stable. To me that...
- Haider
- Post #3
- Oct 14, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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What do you guys think of this for a gaming setup

For power supplies stick to Enermax. They are the quality PSU people. Why chance it with someone else. Ram stick to Micron/Crucial if you can afford it the Ballistix Elite line. Motherboard Asus - good choice there. That's 25+ years in the field overclocking experience. I've seen others come...
- Haider
- Post #29
- Oct 14, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Overclocking Voltages

Hi, I run a everyday overclock on i5-760 of 177 BLCK x 20 multiplier giving me about 3.5GHz. My Vcore 1.24 and Vtt is 1.15. My temp hit mids 60s underload and I have running this config since the start of the year. I have been able to isolate my blck to 200 with a vtt of 1.2. Now Intel quote...
- Haider
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- Oct 13, 2013
- Replies: 2
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Radeon DirectX 11 Multithreaded Rendering

A developer that doesn't want the hassle/cost of low-level coding is going to stick at high-level coding. There are many reason why people choose to develop at the high-level and performance compared to low-level has always been sacrificed. On the Commodore VIC-20, 64 and Amiga games were...
- Haider
- Post #14
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD Radeon DirectX 11 Multithreaded Rendering

Mantle is a low-level API; D3D is a high-level API; They are complementary. Just because assembler exists doesn't mean C/C++ and Java are dead.
- Haider
- Post #10
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD Radeon DirectX 11 Multithreaded Rendering

From the AnandTech article: - On that note, for those of you who have been asking about support for D3D11 Driver Command Lists – an optional D3D11 feature that helps with multithreaded rendering and is NVIDIA’s secret sauce for Civilization V – AMD has still not implemented...
- Haider
- Post #9
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD Radeon DirectX 11 Multithreaded Rendering

Hi, Wondering what's the delay with AMD getting this running on their GCN cards. I know there aren't many games that support it but not many games were multi-threaded until multicore CPUs were common place. My Radeon HD 7950 950MHz is waiting to be maxed out by the Intel 4 core i5 OC to...
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- Oct 8, 2013
- Replies: 36
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD GPU14: Presentation from the live stream and pictures of R9 and R7 Series

Most people have just heard crap sound. If you've never had good sound. It's not cheap from amplification through to speakers. I have been waiting for games to come out with a DTS-HD Master but...
- Haider
- Post #30
- Oct 2, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD GPU14: Presentation from the live stream and pictures of R9 and R7 Series

Have my Audigy2 plugged in my only PCI slot with a connection to a Creative Labs DTS hardware encoder to Denon AVR and onto an Arcam Muso/Logo 5.1 setup. Without good sound no immersion...
- Haider
- Post #26
- Oct 1, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

It's not less than 20%, Mantle isn't completely low-level like assembler. It leverages an API/driver. I think that's why it's able to be cross platform and afford portability.
- Haider
- Post #437
- Oct 1, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

Talking about something he wished hed done differently during Rages development, Carmack said this: When we started on the game six years ago, I looked at the consoles and said These are as good as the PC, and our development strategy was to develop live on all the platforms. And now...
- Haider
- Post #429
- Oct 1, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

From a couple of years back, just this whole talk of Mantle reminded of this: - ================================================================== In the office (my day job is a graphics programmer) we've been kicking around some thoughts and we've come to the conclusion that unless MS do...
- Haider
- Post #424
- Oct 1, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

Yep I have come across that figure from respected developers too. I'm interested to see what Mantle delivers. DirectX needs improvement. Frankly it's an absurd situation. Mantle should not shift the focus from this. Consumers need to put pressure on Microsoft, nVidia, AMD and Intel.
- Haider
- Post #391
- Sep 30, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

You make some valid points but the balance is bit biased against AMD. SteamOS/box is interesting but can they gain developer support? What does it bring to the party? It has to do more than Windows. Why should I move to SteamOS? Will my games run faster and better? Will games like GTA V...
- Haider
- Post #381
- Sep 30, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

You also have to look at money. 1000 lines of C will do what a 10000 lines of assembler will achieve. Optimistation takes money in having firstly the expensive tools to get you the info/profiling of your app so you know what to optimise. Debugging 1000 lines of C vs 10,000 of assembler? It also...
- Haider
- Post #268
- Sep 28, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

From what I read and know to get people up to speed from day one the high-level API in each console will be used. The consoles have sufficient power to do that. The big developers who have the resources will get involved with using the low-level calls for the WOW factor. From conjecture as with...
- Haider
- Post #267
- Sep 28, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

Not every game will use it though. I'm sure nVidia can write a low-level API for their own hardware. nVidia have a bigger user base in the PC market so there could well be PC developers out there that do stuff for it. It's be interesting to see the Steam Box. I doubt low-level will used for...
- Haider
- Post #240
- Sep 27, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

It's open but low-level and for GCN. Unless the underlying hardware is similar which I doubt between nVidia and AMD. nVidia could create it's own but I believe a form of Mantle is a part of xbox1 and PS4. Similar to the way DirectX is a part of Win, Xbox1 and PS4. AMD will be hoping AAA console...
- Haider
- Post #239
- Sep 27, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

DirectX is high-level C/C++, Mantle is low-level like assembly language...
- Haider
- Post #236
- Sep 27, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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