This is really irritating me. I have a 6950 and a dual screen setup (Monitor and Plasma TV) and it won't let me make the monitor a primary screen. If I run them in extended or duplicate modes, the monitor will have crazy screen tearing because it's not the primary. Any way I can make the monitor the primary screen and/or get rid of the tearing?
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BoobPhysics101
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Think I found the PSU for me:
Microcenter has a PC Power & Cooling 760w for $70 after rebate. It's not modular, but fuck it, my case lets me hide all the cables behind the mobo anyways (HAF-912). It's a damn good PSU from a legendary brand and the price is right! I think I'll go pick it up tomorrow.
Microcenter has a PC Power & Cooling 760w for $70 after rebate. It's not modular, but fuck it, my case lets me hide all the cables behind the mobo anyways (HAF-912). It's a damn good PSU from a legendary brand and the price is right! I think I'll go pick it up tomorrow.
Stock Q9450? Yup.Shawsie64 said:
I wouldn't give it up. I've brought my giant almost fulltower case around with my monitor places.grkazan12 said:
I can't do any work on laptops. Taking it all isn't so bad, I just wrap them up together in a big towel and off I go.
A smaller case can help.
PCP&C has fell out a bit but that PSU is based on the solid Seasonic units and seems highly recommended. Great deal.BoobPhysics101 said:
Can't say. Maybe the Hz is set at 59Hz instead of 60Hz?sca2511 said:
Wolf Akela
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Maybe the dorm guy will be interested in an NZXT Vulcan?
Wolf Akela
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Check temps, and what's your PSU?
Traitor to Heaven
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mr2xxx said:
I had the same issue with my ASUS 570 GTX. Artifacts on the screen when booting, then after the windows start screen the screen would go black. Took about a month to get a replacement.
Traitor to Heaven
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mr2xxx said:
Yeah, it sucked. What took so long was them trying to repair the card instead of shipping a replacement right away. I guess they were low on refurbished models because they offered a replacement that was a different model from mine. But after I declined the offer, they sent me a brand new card the next day.
Ive been using Comodo Backup for a year or so to back up my files but the latest update is making it act funny so I want to try something new. Anyone have any suggestions?
I also want to explain something to see if this makes any sense to anyone else:
A few weeks ago, Comodo Backup was updated and right around this time, I started experiencing extremely slow shutdowns...sometimes taking 3+ minutes.
I ran CPU, memory, RAM, and GPU tests first as a precaution and they all checked out fine.
Googled a little bit and figured the next best step would be to try a clean boot with all non-microsoft services and startup items disabled. This did nothing. I even tried it on safe mode and saw no improvements.
So I started looking at my hard drives and and started by defragging the drive that Comodo backs up to. There was a lot of fragmentation but clearing that didnt help with my shutdown problem.
Next, I ran chkdsk on that drive. It detected no errors BUT it fixed my problem.
At this point, I wanted to find the problem so I started with Comodo and ran a backup overnight. This morning, the shutdown problem returned. I uninstalled Comodo and the problem went away.
Im realizing that this post is kinda long winded and pointless but I guess my question is: Can a third party program still cause issues even on a clean boot? The confusing part of this issue for me is that I thought a clean boot was done so that only MS services are running so you can re-enable any others one by one and nail down the problem. If thats the case, then why did I still have a problem after a clean boot? Could there be another issue somewhere that Im overlooking?
I also want to explain something to see if this makes any sense to anyone else:
A few weeks ago, Comodo Backup was updated and right around this time, I started experiencing extremely slow shutdowns...sometimes taking 3+ minutes.
I ran CPU, memory, RAM, and GPU tests first as a precaution and they all checked out fine.
Googled a little bit and figured the next best step would be to try a clean boot with all non-microsoft services and startup items disabled. This did nothing. I even tried it on safe mode and saw no improvements.
So I started looking at my hard drives and and started by defragging the drive that Comodo backs up to. There was a lot of fragmentation but clearing that didnt help with my shutdown problem.
Next, I ran chkdsk on that drive. It detected no errors BUT it fixed my problem.
At this point, I wanted to find the problem so I started with Comodo and ran a backup overnight. This morning, the shutdown problem returned. I uninstalled Comodo and the problem went away.
Im realizing that this post is kinda long winded and pointless but I guess my question is: Can a third party program still cause issues even on a clean boot? The confusing part of this issue for me is that I thought a clean boot was done so that only MS services are running so you can re-enable any others one by one and nail down the problem. If thats the case, then why did I still have a problem after a clean boot? Could there be another issue somewhere that Im overlooking?
It's not really about carrying it, but more about platform parity and where my friends are. Like I've been playing a lot of BF3 and it's been awesome, but I'm afraid that I might play more MW3 on Live b/c my friends are all going to play. For some reason I see that as my computer is going to waste.
MisterNoisy
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Wolf Akela said:Maybe the dorm guy will be interested in an NZXT Vulcan?
Outstanding little case - lots of room for mATX, though if you mount a 12cm+ tower-type CPU cooler, you'll need to orient it to exhaust air upwards unless you mod it pretty heavily. I've got a *cough* HTPC built in one -- get a wireless 360 controller adapter and something like this for general browsing and you're good to go.
BoobPhysics101
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Just ordered a Hyper 212+ and low-profile Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB DDR1600 1.5v RAM. Looks like I'll be picking up that 2500k and Gigabyte mobo in a few hours. I might wait til tomorrow when the Hyper 212+ arrives before I start the build though... probably not worth installing the motherboard etc just to take it out tomorrow anyways when the new cooler arrives.
This sucks because I wanted an all AMD GPU/CPU build... but instead I got such good deals on the 'dark side' (Nvidia + Intel) stuff that I couldn't pass it up. Building a GTX 570 + 2500k rig for under $500 is ridiculously cheap.
This sucks because I wanted an all AMD GPU/CPU build... but instead I got such good deals on the 'dark side' (Nvidia + Intel) stuff that I couldn't pass it up. Building a GTX 570 + 2500k rig for under $500 is ridiculously cheap.
So, with Gigabyte's long and drawn out RMA process it's taken 9 days from the day I placed my first call to get a shipment confirmation email for my advanced RMA. If I would have known it would take this long, I would have just bought another motherboard.
Day 1:
Get told I can't RMA through the phone and need to fill out the online form first.
Day 2:
Get told it's not in their system yet and I need to wait up to 48 hours after submitting the RMA request.
Receive the RMA confirmation on Friday.
Day 3:
Ask for advanced RMA.
Receive the advanced RMA form and fill it out.
Day 6 (after weekend):
Receive an e-mail Monday saying they received the payment form.
Day 7:
Receive an e-mail Tuesday saying my credit card was charged.
Day 9:
Receive an e-mail Thursday saying USPS has received the shipping info (which means it won't ship out until Day 10).
Unacceptable. I don't think I'll be purchasing another Gigabyte product again.
Day 1:
Get told I can't RMA through the phone and need to fill out the online form first.
Day 2:
Get told it's not in their system yet and I need to wait up to 48 hours after submitting the RMA request.
Receive the RMA confirmation on Friday.
Day 3:
Ask for advanced RMA.
Receive the advanced RMA form and fill it out.
Day 6 (after weekend):
Receive an e-mail Monday saying they received the payment form.
Day 7:
Receive an e-mail Tuesday saying my credit card was charged.
Day 9:
Receive an e-mail Thursday saying USPS has received the shipping info (which means it won't ship out until Day 10).
Unacceptable. I don't think I'll be purchasing another Gigabyte product again.
Welp, I can't watch flash videos (I'm guessing).
For example, Giantbomb is having TNT now and this is what I see.
This also happens when I try to watch
dailymotion videos. I can watch youtube videos, however.
I tried unistalling flash and reinstalling and I still have this problem...
Thanks!
For example, Giantbomb is having TNT now and this is what I see.
This also happens when I try to watch
porn
I tried unistalling flash and reinstalling and I still have this problem...
Thanks!
evil solrac v3.0
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balladofwindfishes said:
I have an old Corsair H50 cooler, ASUS P7P55D-Pro motherboard with i5 750 chip and 4 GBs of RAM laying around I could part with for 300 bucks. they were all working great but I upgraded so....
MidgarBlowedUp
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balladofwindfishes said:
http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.asp?ic=PCVM661UQ6603PD
I'd do more research but it's just a suggestion. I think, not sure, the mobo on these has a PCI Express x16 slot. So, you could look for something like this, then when your brother or someone else in your family has an extra $100 or so just upgrade the graphics card and PSU.
BoobPhysics101
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Hazaro said:
Yeah, PSU is a 500w Enermax Liberty that was bought in early '06. I asked an electrical engineering friend of. mine and he agreed that overload protection kicked in to keep the PSU from blowing so I definitely hit my limits.
I just got home with my new PC Power & Cooli g PSU, 2500k, and Gigabyte z68 mobo. Total after rebates and taxes was $320. Gonna be fun setting this baby up and stress testing + OC'ing tomorrow.
And yeah, I do like to clock high. I might go for a 4.8 Ghz OC and try to hit 950+ Mhz on tbe GTX 570 now that I can safely supply power to it. Just gotta unlock the BIOS to 1.2v...
chaosblade
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My GPU got loud as hell, sounds like there might be something in the fan? Or maybe the fan is just dying/going bad. It's a 5850 so it's not like it's old, shouldn't have problems with a dying fan this soon. Messed with it a little but it didn't do any good. Not as comfortable messing with that as I am other PC components, and hopefully I don't have to buy an aftermarket cooler or something.
So excited, finally the parts for my new PC are arriving. my case, the SSD, the CPU fan, my PSU and the RAM are already here, and I'll pick up the GPU and the optical drive later today
Just looks like it wil take a couple of days for the CPU and the mainboard to arrive
Oh and I've had a LOT of problem getting a decent priced HDD, everything in the 750-1000GB range jumped from ~40 to over 100 in the last week or so. Finally found a Seagate Barracuda 750GB for 47. Not my first choice, but better than nothing.
Just looks like it wil take a couple of days for the CPU and the mainboard to arrive
Oh and I've had a LOT of problem getting a decent priced HDD, everything in the 750-1000GB range jumped from ~40 to over 100 in the last week or so. Finally found a Seagate Barracuda 750GB for 47. Not my first choice, but better than nothing.
Shambles said:
well yeah and a 570 has OverCurrentProtection AND almost every PSU can be overloaded a bit (e.g. my HX650 has run 725W loads in benchmarks before shutting down)
yet running OCCT still makes his PSU shut down, which leads me to conclude he's pretty close to the limit without overclocking =]
and once you start overclocking (especially GPU) you can really go sky high lol, I ran Prime95 on 6 threads of my 2600K@4.8/1.4v and Furmark on my GTX480 @ 900/1.2v and I pulled around 730W from the wall socket lol (which is around 620W at 85% efficiency), never heard my PSU fan run that hard
(really quiet rig otherwise)BoobPhysics101 said:Yeah, PSU is a 500w Enermax Liberty that was bought in early '06. I asked an electrical engineering friend of. mine and he agreed that overload protection kicked in to keep the PSU from blowing so I definitely hit my limits.
I just got home with my new PC Power & Cooli g PSU, 2500k, and Gigabyte z68 mobo. Total after rebates and taxes was $320. Gonna be fun setting this baby up and stress testing + OC'ing tomorrow.
And yeah, I do like to clock high. I might go for a 4.8 Ghz OC and try to hit 950+ Mhz on tbe GTX 570 now that I can safely supply power to it. Just gotta unlock the BIOS to 1.2v...
what 570 is that? The chips are all good clockers but the earlier stock/reference PCBs don't really dig high voltages that much. I mean I run 1.2v on my (watercooled) 480 everytime I play BF3 but I wouldn't do it with a reference 570
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Hazaro said:
Gotcha. The bios was displaying 40°, but HWM/CoreTemp/AsusProbe are indicating that they're in the 29-32° range. I'm gonna run some stress/load tests as you said and see how they do, but everything seemed okay in the few hours I played BF3.
Mengy
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Holy SHIT have hard drive prices skyrocketed. A Samsung Green 2TB drive I was looking at buying for $80 a few weeks ago is now $230!!!!! That's...quite an increase. I think I'll be holding off on new drives for quite some time....
Mengy said:
Yeah, with the flooding in Thailand and everything, this is really insane.
CoolS said:So excited, finally the parts for my new PC are arriving. my case, the SSD, the CPU fan, my PSU and the RAM are already here, and I'll pick up the GPU and the optical drive later today
Just looks like it will take a couple of days for the CPU and the mainboard to arrive
Oh and I've had a LOT of problem getting a decent priced HDD, everything in the 750-1000GB range jumped from ~40 to over 100 in the last week or so. Finally found a Seagate Barracuda 750GB for 47. Not my first choice, but better than nothing.
Just picked up my GPU (MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II) and got Batman: Arkham City as a free bonus game on Steam. So happy right now
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127582Gvaz said:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XVMAKU/?tag=neogaf0e-20
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Depends on your voltage and your case airflow. A 900 or 1300 RPM Scythe Kama II is pretty damn silent if it ends up being too hot.SoulClap said:
Just give it a test.
Value wise if you are ok with AMD I'd say get a 6950 2GB (tad slower), or a 6970 2GB for the same price.Gvaz said:
Anything over $250 is pretty fast diminishing returns.
I'd stick with the regular version, but I haven't messed around enough with supersampling and checked the memory usage to be sure how much it really eats up.
What are you planning to use it for/on?
If you are looking to buy I'd suggest the Macho for a heatsink if you can find it in stock.SoulClap said:
I meant can you try SSAA on your current setup on the games you want and use MSI Afterburner to check memory impact of it?Gvaz said:
I can't find any good articles or posts on it right now. I can test the impact later as well since I'm interested to know.
Also of course keep in mind FPS impact of doing so
Hazaro said:
Crap. It's not in stock in any Canadian online stores. If noise is a concern do you think I'm making the right choice by going with a HR-02 with a single fan or would I be better off going with the Silver Arrow? I really don't see myself overclocking past 4.0GHz either. I have a Fractal R3 (120mm fans in the rear, front, and bottom of the case spinning at around 1200 RPM) btw.
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