Recent content by MajinCry

'Ello lads. Been a long time since I've been on these 'ere forums. My Samsung SyncMaster 932B has decided to kick the bucket, and thusly, I'm in the market for a new 5:4 display. The Samsung was not that great a monitor; 19 inches of screen buggery, a flickering backlight and was still bright...

Bit the bullet and used cable ties to attach the fan to the shroud. So far so good. Ran New Vegas with an ENB just fine. Going to do a Skyrim marathon and see how the temps fare.

My RMA ended a couple months ago, so I cannae get an RMA. I'd rather not spend money fer another fan when I've got a big ol' doozey just laying around; that is, supposing it can be used fer this purpose. That, and the fan me graphics card wants, is a 92mm one. But yeah; I'd like to have a...

'Ello lads. The first fan on my dual-x (the one closest to the metal bracket) is louder than the stock HSF that came with my 965. That's feckin' loud. I do happen to have a spare "be quiet! Pure Wings 2 1500RPM 120mm" fan. These lil' doozies keep things cool and are practically silent; I was...

The i5 has better single threaded performance, which current and past games prefer. That said, we're beginning to see video games that want eight threads, due to the whole PS4/XB1 debacle. What will you be using the computer for? Gaming, I assume?

Piledriver is on-par with the Phenom IIs clock for clock. Various benchmarks show this.But they're different architectures; Bulldozer, Piledriver and Steamroller are intended to be clocked higher. So comparing clockspeeds? Stupid move.IIRC, the Phenom IIs REALLY guzzled power. Again, IIRC, for...

I don't understand some of you people.People that don't want to spend another £80 on software (and, chances are, another £200-£300 for new hardware) deserve to be left in the dust? [removed] Watch the language - G

When DirectSound support is re-added, then I'll upgrade from XP.

8 cores, huh?Ten bucks says it's only got one or two FPUs.

Don't forget cost.Most, if not all, of the NHS' computers run XP. To be able to run Windows 7 at the same level of performance would require new hardware and new operating system purchases. To do the upgrade would be FAR too costly. What with the country being *in debt* to the banks.Just an...

"As for AMD, I'm not sure what your beef is. AMD is a company, I'm telling it like it is. Its company that paper launches a $110 card (the 260), and then a month later it barely shows up on the market, and at a significantly higher price to boot."Retailer's fault.You're placing the blame at the...

And since we're on the topic of your APU, see how RadeonPro fares. With previous IGPUs, it doesn't work well. Couldn't hurt to give it a try with Kaveri :D

Gaming -> 3D Application Settings -> Texture Filtering Quality -> Performance

The 9400GT is comparable to the 8600gt. My 8600gt couldn't handle Skyrim whatsoever. If you REALLY have to, go into the ini files, change ugrids to 3, run "Optimizer Textures" to reduce the textures to 1/4 of their original size and then drop all the settings to minimum. Then in-game, type...

The 7850k's IGPU is comparable to the 6670/7750. On the catalyst, make sure that image filtering is @ performance. I've found absolutely no difference in image quality with that setting @ quality/high quality, yet it ruins my FPS; when I compared the settings with my 6670, anyway.