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Are you going to build an Eyefinity setup?

Ok, I'll say this one more time... you're not going to need Xfire, you're not going to get 1 FPS rates. Folks need to check out the demos and the photos that Tempered81 posted. AMD had *one* card driving the CryEngine3 on three monitors, and *one* card playing Left4Dead on a 6-HD projector...
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- Post #68
- Sep 14, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Are you going to build an Eyefinity setup?

"Yet they don't tell us "you can run Crysis at 30fps using this setup" Depends on which article you're reading. I saw WoW being played on 6 screens, highest quality, with 80+FPS, and the CryEngine 3 being running on 3 screens. You're not going to be seeing numbers yet because the specs are...
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- Post #63
- Sep 14, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Are you going to build an Eyefinity setup?

Here's another solution: http://www.gizmag.com/nec-crv43-curved-display/11892/ There are a lot of games this technology is suitable for: flight simulators and racing games in particular, where bezels wouldn't be a problem and you'd gain something being able to see to either side of you...
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- Post #57
- Sep 13, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Lost Partition - Want to Recover Files from Hard Drive

Really appreciate the TestDisk link. I found this post while trying to deal with a problem of my own, and TestDisk fixed what demos of $100 software couldn't do, for free, in seconds vs. 45 minutes plus for some of the others. Thanks!
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- Post #4
- Feb 26, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Processes on a laptop

It's not the number of processes per se as it is the number of needed processes. Before reinstalling Windows, what I would do would be to go through the control panel's add/delete programs option (what you use to uninstall programs) and see what programs are listed there. If there are things...
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- Post #2
- Feb 26, 2007
- Forum: Laptops
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windows 2000 (SP4) installation to an SATA drive: can only see 132GB ...

Do you have any information on how you set the geometry and partition table back? I encountered a similar problem with Windows XP yesterday. I wanted to test whether certain updates were causing a tuner card problem, so I decided to install another copy of XP to the second hard drive in the...
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- Post #5
- Feb 26, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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AMD X2 Driver fails to install.

It is the Mitsumi drive, as N7 said. I've got one in the system I just put together. For those who don't know, this is a combo floppy drive and 7-in-1 memory card reader. It transfers the floppy data via standard floppy connector, and the memory card data via USB. Windows sees the two memory...
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- Post #13
- Nov 19, 2005
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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New mobo installed, system wont power on!

Crazy question, but did you try leaving it unplugged for a bit then plugging it back in?
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- Post #5
- Nov 10, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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What needs to be done for XP Pro to work with an X2?

Thanks. I believe there are also BIOS issues with this motherboard (Gigabye GA-K8N Ultra-9), it won't post with a new tuner card that works fine in a test system, and I've now managed to make the board un-postable via attempted BIOS upgrade even with a dual BIOS board! This motherboard is SO RMA. :)
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- Post #4
- Nov 10, 2005
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9

I'm building a new system with this board, and flashed the f7 BIOS to it. It refused to boot from that BIOS and booted from the backup BIOS instead. After installing Windows I used the Windows utility to flash the BIOS. I'm guessing it copied the F7 in the main bios to the backup BIOS before...
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- Post #5
- Nov 10, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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What needs to be done for XP Pro to work with an X2?

I'm assembling a new system with an X2 chip, and after install and update through SP2, XP Pro is treating the processor as single core. I attempted to run a utility from AMD's website that seemed to be what I was looking for, but on running it it indicated that it was already installed. I...
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- Thread
- Nov 10, 2005
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Oldest CPU you have?

I'm writing this reply on a AMD K6-III+ (400MHz oced to 561 MHz) right now! 384 MB ram, and 2 legacy ISA slots. :-) However, I'm also tortuously attempting to assemble an X2 system as we speak so I can retire this system, which was king of the hill in '99. This post will probably be its last...
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- Post #66
- Nov 9, 2005
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Zalman CNPS7700-CU vs. Zalman CNPS9500 LED

Thank you all very much. Excellent find, McGeyser.
- alcalde
- Post #10
- Oct 30, 2005
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Zalman CNPS7700-CU vs. Zalman CNPS9500 LED

Hi, I'm putting the final touches on designing a new system... the K6-III+ just isn't cutting it anymore. :) The motherboard will be a Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9, the processor and AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and the case a Sonata II (quietness is one of the design goals). I was initially thinking I'd...
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- Thread
- Oct 29, 2005
- Replies: 11
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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