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Graphics card manufacturers often release "overclocked edition" versions of regular models. For example Club 3D Radeon HD 5850 Overclocked Edition or ZOTAC GeForceĀ® GTX 680 AMP! Edition. Are such "overclocked editions" usually just...
Quote:Originally Posted by verbatim The 5870 sounds broken? If you think it isn't try updating the 5870 bios I was able to upgrade the BIOS of the Radeon HD 5870 card. I booted into FreeDOS and used ATIFlash. At first I stored the...
ASUS "Crosshair V Formula" has POST diagnostic LED's(ASUS calls those "Q LEDs"): Quote:Q LEDs check key components (CPU, DRAM, VGA card, and booting devices) in sequence during motherboard booting process. If an error is found , the...
Quote:Originally Posted by Dhalgren65 I'm not sure what board you have,but I have a few Gigabyte models that make you select PCIe boot device. If you "load Optimized" it reverts to default PEG slot for boot-SB Peg1. I used PEG2 for...
I have a 64bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 with all the latest Windows updates installed. Graphics card driver installed is the latest for Radeon HD 5000 series for 64bit Windows 7(Driver Packaging Version: 8.961-120405a-137813C-ATI). In case...
Ok, but reality at the moment is that much of the for example physics computing is performed by CPU while some modern graphics cards would support it thanks to PhysX(software development kit) and GPGPU capabilities of modern GPUs? In...
It's a common knowledge that some games are especially CPU intensive(for example GTA IV, MS Flight Simulator X) and some are more GPU intensive(for example Metro 2033 or Dirt 3). What makes a game CPU intensive? Is it mostly NPC's and...
Quote:Originally Posted by lastdefenda semiconductor device fabrication I understand Computational Lithography is like Optical Printing . More finer the printing finer the product (65nm>>45nm>>32nm>>22nm) so the die size or the size...
65nm/45nm/32nm technology should refer to the average half-pitch(half the distance between identical features) of a memory cell(standard unit in electronic chip design). How to understand this? What are those "identical features"? And...
I received following 3DMARK 11(Basic Edition, default settings) score with my machine(Intel Xeon X3220@2.4GHz CPU, 2x 2GB PC2-6400 RAM, Radeon HD 5850@800MHz/1050MHz, S3210SH motherboard): Code: Score P2925 3DMarks Graphics...
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