I was pretty happy about 3 years ago when my wife switched from an iPhone to a Samsung. It was the last Apple product in our house, and I never have to install iTunes on anything ever, ever, ever again.
Next Gen is just a silly marketing term, which is why it seems like every definition people give it is different. "Will it require the latest version of DirectX?" has to be one of the most arbitrary ones I've seen yet.
Will it push technology forward is what I generally ask, and it appears...
That site always gets the driver release about a day before it goes on AMD's site. There's an internal approval process it has to go through before they officially release it.
I had an XFX 8800gt go bad on me after 3.5 years. They replaced it with a newer ATI card that ran far quieter and was about 20% faster than the old card. It saved me from having to upgrade for another year.
They also replaced my standard 7970 with a Ghz edition after 9 months. The new card...
LOL, yeah I love that feature. It came with Win 7.
There is one game that undeniably runs better on Win 8. Battlefield 4. There are easily hundreds of games that don't run properly or at all with Win 8/8.1.
Everyone saying Win 8 runs games (other than BF4) faster is full of it.
I'd say you were just unlucky, although you didn't mention what model your monitors were. Keep in mind that if you bought the cheapest ones in the store, the failure rate is almost certainly going to be higher then with a high end model.
Its also worth mentioning that bad pixels are a pretty...
I got the impression from that post, but I guess you meant the power cord was going to your surge protector, not the wall. And since nobody answered it before, yes you should try a different power cord, and a different surge protector too for that matter. Either one could be damaged.
Stop...
This is the first thing I thought of as well. That's how you have multiple parts go bad on you at the same time.
It also doesn't sound like he's got a surge protector, and is plugging his computer straight into a wall socket.
But he also said he was connecting his laptop to the questionable monitor, and it was fine then. So assuming he's been using the laptop/monitor in the same room, that rules out a bad monitor, bad lighting, etc.
If that's the case, it has something to do with the desktop computer itself...
Its probably fine. I just didn't appreciate the big ass list of utilities that were suddenly running the first time I rebooted after installation. Afterburner by itself is okay, except that I can't get it to run automatically without Rivatuner installed, which is irritating to say the least...
Is there an alternative to Afterburner for the auto-fan control? I use it because the AMD fan controls pretty much suck, but I don't particularly like Afterburner either.
I already uninstalled the Rivatuner addon. I'm not surprised it was causing the OP's computer to stutter, it looks and...
LCDs are good for offices. I'd buy a new CRT in a heartbeat though if they were still being made today. I also think its safe to say that there would have been tons of improvement in regards to heat output and design if CRTs had continued to be developed over the last decade. In return for...
I don't really see the point in doing all of that work to compare gaming CPUs, when 3 out of 4 games tested are heavily GPU dependent. The one CPU bound game he tested (Civ 5) indicated that all CPUs are not equal.
They should be testing simulations and strategy games if they want to make...
I upgraded from a low tier core 2 duo to a 3570k based system a while back and the difference was tremendous in every game I tried, even before my new GPU had arrived (I was using the old one).
I see threads all the time started by people who are getting worse than expected performance in...
I can't believe nobody commented on this. I can start and stop a stopwatch in 5ms, I just checked. You can only click your mouse once every 200-250ms? No wonder you play with vsync on.
I agree with most of what you're saying, but this part isn't true. My modded Skyrim uses around 2.5gb vram and never drops below 60fps on a single 7970. Clearly the gpu is powerful enough to make use it.
Fallout: NV is also using almost 2gb vram with all my modding. Those big open worlds...
I'm happy too. I own a 7970 and there was always a possibility in the back of my mind that I might add a second at some point. Not now. Crossfire truly is broken, and anyone running that setup has wasted a lot of money. Anyone happy with their Crossfire setup was completely fooled as they...
It seems to me that if he's *absolutely not* overclocking than the 7970 is the better choice. The 7950 basically requires overclocking to reach its potential.
I've got an XFX DD 7970 (not black) and I'm happy with it. I'd heard its cooler wasn't as good, but at the price I paid for it I couldn't pass it up. It ran hot until I started using a fan profile with MSI afterburner. Basically I think CCC uses way too conservative fan speeds. It idles...
Benchmarks up to at least 12.11 show WoW runs quite a bit worse on AMD cards. I haven't seen any improvements mentioned in any of the driver updates since then. I'd think twice before getting an AMD card for what you want to do.
Its really noticeable, especially playing open world games like Skyrim that load from the hard drive while you're playing. For Skyrim, I removed the opening movie from my game, so its about 1 second from when I click execute to when I'm on the game's menu. Hit "continue" and a loading screen...
nVidia and AMD design the cards and the different companies manufacture and sell them. So an "Asus Geforce" is actually an nVidia Geforce card manufactured by Asus. A reference card is one that hasn't been changed at all from the original design by nVidia and AMD, while a non-reference...
If anyone had told me about that lightboost hack a few months ago, I'd have bought a 670 instead of my 7970. I really hope someone figures out how to make it work with an AMD card.
You might be able to get it to display the higher resolution with a lower refresh rate. Try setting a custom resolution again with 35hz to see if it works, then if it does you can try raising it to 40 and maybe 50hz. Not a perfect solution, but some people on this thread thought it was worth...
Actually 120hz monitors do alleviate input lag and response time, all while outputting up to double the frames of a 60hz monitor. This is noticeable to most people on the Windows desktop, let alone in a game. Everything looks and feels smoother, especially when turning the camera quickly or...
I disagree. Vsync introduces significant input lag, and I'll take screen tearing (which I barely notice) over it any day.
Maybe it comes from playing on CRTs for years before LCDs took over, but I can easily detect input lag and it drives me nuts. I'd love to get a 120hz monitor, but they...
My first nVidia card was a Riva TNT 2. Then I had a somewhat crappy 7300le that came with my Dell desktop. I upgraded it to an 8800gt (which I loved). When that died after about 3 years, XFX (lifetime warranty) replaced it with a Radeon 6700 because they didn't make nVidia cards anymore...
I agree that the input lag in Skyrim (and every other recent Bethesda game) is unbearable. Thankfully, its also fixable, here's a link to a video with all the steps laid out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2AJDJ8sOfQ
Aside from some slight differences with the .ini files, these changes will...
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