Recent content by x-orbiter

I looked up performance comparison of DDR2 vs DDR3 for Phenom II X4 on Youtube and it seems to be about 10-15%, but in some graphics benchmarks it is not even noticeable. I believe that L3 cache somewhat levels that out to some degree. As for FSB OC it needs 20% boost to get memory back to 800MHz.

I have recently obtained a Phenom II x4 925 at a bargain price. I want to make a modest, but usable secondary build out of some parts I have and this CPU. I do not want to spend too much money and buy a lot of extra parts. I have some DDR2 modules, an HDD and a case, so I might go with an used...

After some more experimenting I was able to at least partially solve this blurriness problem by overriding the following settings in the Control panel: Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias: Allow Texture Filtering - Quality: High Quality The image still looks different from Radeon, but the...

Thanks for the replies. Unless I find out the cause of the blurriness, I won't consider any Nvidia product. I haven't used one since 7600GS which had perfect picture IMO. How would I know that 1030 will not have the same blurry textures as 710? I heard that Nvidia uses some low-level texture...

I recently purchased a GT 710 graphics card and was disappointed by the decrease in 3D rendering quality compared to Radeon HD4670. These cards should be almost identical according to benchmarks, with GT 710 consuming 3x less power. In reality GT 710 is slightly faster, but this seems to come at...

Thanks for the answers! I already tried to install it before I realized there is such thing as power limitation of PCI-e x4. The card seemed to work fine for about an hour, both in 2D and 3D, without apparent freezes or lags. Then I took it out. So my question is more related to safety. If it is...

I want to add a second graphics card for desktop/mediaplayer in the second PCI-e slot on the motherboard (AMD 780G). The second slot has a different color and is marked as 'PCIE_X4'. The manual does not say that I cannot insert a graphics card in the slot, it only says that its performance may...