Recent content by shadow187

We would need a picture in order to determine that. Nothing should be damaged but it might be irrelevant.

Please get some information on your temperatures while playing the game (get HardwareMonitor). We'll also need some information about your PSU. Whatever image you tried to link also failed to do so.

Always err on the side of better cooling. But you can't discern anything from just "feels hot". Get an actual temperature reporting option such as HardwareMonitor. If you're at or below 80c while gaming, you're fine.

Hm. So I'm not familiar with how this _should_ appear, but I do know that laptops with a discrete and integrated card will switch between one another in order to save power. For instance if you're just watching Youtube videos, the more powerful card will remain off in order to extend battery...

Nah. 80c is high, but it's to be expected when running something as suicidal as Furmark. Honestly man I wouldn't worry much about it if only FMark is crashing your system. Games won't touch that level of stress, so don't sweat it. If your comp starts crashing while gaming, then you have some...

Why settle for 2GB? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131673&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= Also, you're gonna need a CPU upgrade before you upgrade to your next card.

Good on ya, thanks. Do you know which update put that in? Couldn't find it with some quick searches.

3 possible things, from most likely to least - Power supply can't handle the maximum load demanded by the card, GPU/CPU/some component is overheating, Potential overclock/Drivers/software is crashing the card. Can you report observed temperatures with your system? Did you overclock it at all?

Depends on what's going on in-game. Sometimes in Battlefield 4 I'll have one of my cards dip down to the idle core (300mhz) speed, but it doesn't visibly affect anything. Is this affecting your gameplay at all or is everything running normally? If so then I wouldn't worry about it at all. If...

You might be able to cheese your way out of it by going into windowed mode (alt + enter), but short of that, delete your settings. This is located at C:\Users\<Username>\Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 2\Saves\JC2Settings. Launch your game and set an appropriate resolution from there.

The R9 280x is at 1050Mhz core and 1550Mhz memory, and the 280 runs at 1000Mhz core and 1300Mhz memory.

Not familiar with the laptop in specific, but can you go into the Bios (usually F12 or DEL on boot) and see if there's any settings regarding switching graphics adapters? Make sure your discrete card is selected.

Hey guys, I got a 280 to go along with my 280x (gift from a family member from his old rig) and I got crossfire running fine. I'm using MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner Statistics to monitor FPS, and Gpu1/2 + CPU temps. I've overclocked both cards, and I noticed that the reported core speed for...

You didn't read everything I've written. My thought behind the underclock on the XFX card is to reduce temperatures, as the lack of any visible cooling represents. You're investing $30 into buying a card that will fare better for temperatures.

You say your birthday is in 5 months, yet you're looking at something currently? By then prices might shift a bit lower and what we suggest now will be an out-dated answer in the future. That said, the R9280x is a wonderful piece of tech. I have one myself, the His IceQ X^2. It runs a cool 65c...