Posts by Majestic_Lizard

Quote:Originally Posted by Majestic_Lizard  Add one more success story. I received an 8800 GT from a guy who had been playing games with the card, but with no fan on the card at all. The story is that someone else tried to clean...

Quote:Originally Posted by Tsumi Some features of DX11.1 got ported over to Windows 7. Features that didn't port were either Metro-specific or WDDM 1.2 reliant (or so they say). Edit: Also, how is making an OS that they already...

There are reasons related to the structure of the operating system, such as memory mapping, that prevent XP from running DX10 or DX11. This is not the case with Windows 8 compared to Windows 7. The changes are almost entirely cosmetic....

Quote:Originally Posted by yching07 You can look these things up. It won't kill you. But then again if you were expecting the BD to kill intel (which is impossible) then dont do it bc you wont find it, nor now or never. Did you...

Two years later, the 8800 GT I fixed with the oven still works.

Quote:Originally Posted by WalCs Gonna throw my 2 cents in here, I don't actually own a FX-series chip but from what I've read from the forums and internet I would say AMD is doing a pretty decent job here with the Bulldozer line,...

I've pretty much reversed my position. My initial opinion operated on the following assumptions: (1) AMD would drop the price of the FX 8150 to around $170 to $180. (2) AMD would release a new revision of the FX 8XXX clocked...

His photo of the back of the PCB clearly shows stickers with model numbers and serial numbers. If that photo was not blurry it would end the argument. It would not be a GTX 570 flashed to a GTX 560 Ti, as that would be like selling a...

Quote:Originally Posted by xxbassplayerxx Broken fan? The X79 chips don't come with a heatsink. If they were stupid enough to pack it like that they probably would be dumb enough to mail a replacement fan for one that does not...

If he is already spending $500+ on his CPU alone there is no reason for him to skimp on the power supply. The 1200 watt is more to protect his overall investment by providing the next best thing to a guarantee that whatever problems he...