Posts by VaiFanatic

Quote:Originally Posted by RoddimusPrime What telescopes are you guys using? I have a T3i that I would like to do some astrophotography with, but lack any astrophotography equipment. Telescopes are really for deep space or planetary...

Would that explain random reboots? Even before the computer boots to the BIOS? I've tested each stick in every slot individually with no issues other than the restarts happening at random. So it wasn't specific to a certain stick, or to...

Quote:Originally Posted by nemm OP, I was running the same as you around 10 months ago and couldn't help but feel the CF 6970 were holding back so the first thing I did was swap out them for a single 670. This was the best choice I...

Quote:Originally Posted by BiG StroOnZ Yeah, guess a lot of the newer batches are Voltage Locked (Although, even with the locked Gigabytes people are still flashing them with GHz Bios and getting nice clocks out of them). Go with...

Quote:Originally Posted by BiG StroOnZ Get a nice 7970 and flash it, flashing Bios is easiest thing ever. Grab a Gigabyte Windforce 7970 OC, flash it with GHz Bios. Done. Looks like some folks are having issues with the Gigabyte...

Quote:Originally Posted by bigmac11 Sounds to me like your memory controller is failing. Do you have an extra CPU? I do not. My neighbor is letting me borrow his 510W PSU, which provided it has the right connectors, should be good...

Couldn't find a spare PSU for a decent price, so I'll see if I can borrow one from a friend.

At this rate, would it be worth to just get the GHz edition right off the bat? Or will flashing a normal 7970 essentially accomplish the same thing? Looking for input for both sides. I'm looking at selling the two 6970s locally.

You'll never be able to please everyone.

Quote:Originally Posted by Layo I've had this in W7 and it was 50/50 board/ram failure (didn't OC anything) if that helps you. If I don't OC anything, I still have the random restarts. The restarting before even POSTing is what...