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Hopefully RIM will release a 10" version in the near future, but 7" is nice because it is so portable. I'm anxious to play with the new QNX OS, once RIM has a radio stack this will be the OS for the future.

Yeah, a lot of the older motherboards have problems with 5 series cards. If you're running the latest BIOS and it's no-go then there isn't anything you can do. You *could* return the card, or just get a new motherboard. AM2+ boards can be had for under $50 these days...

I left my flash drive at home and had to download drivers earlier - I got the same message. I did get the drivers from somewhere else, but thanks, nVidia!

The visuals in Avatar were great - it really was an 'experience,' even with the silly glasses. Seeing a couple of films in the theatre is OK with glasses, but is something that would be unforgivable at home. The wost part about Avatar was technical - there was damage on the screen that stood...

If you're going to upgrade your video card, Newegg has an AGP 4670 for $110.

** NONE ** of these devices are for the non-enthusiast types. The Western Digital media players seem to be the best of the lot (just don't update the firmware on the WD TV Live) but none of them are really great. Anything with a network port doesn't seem to work well if you're not connecting...

The 'fact' is that we don't know any facts, which is highly unusual for nVidia. Since you want to eat the pudding, you'll need this...

You know that nVidia is no longer making chipsets, right? nVidia hasn't made a good chipset since the nForce4 (my ASUS A8N-SLI Premium based PC is now my HTPC) so nobody really cares. Anyone who bought a nForce based Intel system lived to regret their purchase - thanks Bumpgate. Tegra is a...

Sapphire 5850 here, 9.12s, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - bought the card the first day it was available. No problems other than glitches in the initial driver (which was expected).

As I recall, I paid $179 for my 4MB Voodoo (Diamond Monster 3D). I wonder what that would be in today's dollars?

Why would you not want a DX11 card? Just because there is little support for it now doesn't mean there won't be.

I'm losing money because AMD can't ship enough 57xx and 58xx series cards. AMD just has to do better, this is turning into a real fiasco.

If you're running XP then it's time to move to 7 anyway.

This is Microsoft we're talking about, right? ;)

I find Sapphire cards to be more reliable than ASUS, but when they need to be RMA'd then Sapphire always sends cards back that work. If you can say that ASUS is better than Sapphire then you obviously haven't dealt with either company.

DX11 has something that even non-gamers can appreciate - dx compute. When Microsoft finally gets around to using GPU acceleration in Windows you can bet they won't be using OpenCL...

ASUS is great until you need service from them, then you'll wish you had this 'repair kit':

...but the performance will be close - and I kept $100 in my pocket.

The 5850 would be better even though it's $100 more, or perhaps wait until the 5830 is released. The 5770 doesn't seem like a good value to me.

I've had two 5850s go through my hands now (one that was put in my PC, one for a customer) and both of them gave me no end of problems until I manually set the PCIE bus to 100Mhz. Just so you know, my PC is overclocked, my customer's isn't.

It's because managers have to shave. :D

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My LG rep claims that the North America region is going to get some 'special' monitors sometime in November. Since Samsung monitors are such crap now LG sees an opportunity to take a lot of customers from them.

Yeah, that definately sounds like the coils on the video card. I have a 4830 that does that as well, it's very annoying but is unfortunately 'normal'. All mid/high end cards seem to have that problem (both ATI and nVidia), I personally believe it's from the manufacturers using using parts that...

The "back to school" season is huge for hardware makers, so if they want to have products ready for that then they'd have to be released mid-July. However, sales this year will be softer then usual due to the economy and the imminent release of Windows 7, so it makes more sense to milk the...

It is also the best solvent (by far) to remove thermal compound. Spray a tiny bit on a paper towel and that old hard-as-a-rock compound is history!

The issue is how much power people need - since most people have 22" LCDs (or less) a 4850/9800GT is really all that is needed. That's why AMD/nVidia are making such a fuss over using the GPU for processing, as they hope people will buy the high-end (and high margin) cards instead of the mid-range.

You'll need to replace the RAM, but since it's RDRAM then it's not worth the expense. Buying new RAM will cost you far more then what that system is worth.

It's high, but still within the safe range. You bought a fanless card so you have to expect temps like that.

This is no longer required with the Cat 9s - it seems like the days of needing a voodoo priestess on call for your driver install are long gone.

It seems like you either have a defective card or the drivers are installed incorrectly (I'm leaning towards a defective card). What hardware/OS/drivers are you using?

This is all just awesome - a week after I get a 4830! :D

Yep. Unless you get a PC with Vista Basic preinstalled they're always the 64-bit version.

No, the 384/768MB GSOs have 96 stream processors, the 256/512MB GSOs have 48. See my post above.

Some of you may remember a post that I made in this very forum a few days ago asking for information about a 512MB eVGA 9600gso that I was thinking about buying. There are absolutely no reviews on that card anywhere, as it's a gimped product released under the same name. I decided that I...

There's a molex connector right by the PCIE slot, try connecting some power to it. Even though the 4830s have a 6-pin connector they seem to like a bit more power from the PCIE slot then it likes to provide. I've noticed that problem on quite a few 4830s and connecting the power always solves it.

I have a chance to pick up a slightly used 9600gso for the 'Cheap Bastard', but I'm slightly confused by them. This card is an eVGA 512MB model, but I'm unsure of the differences between the 512MB cards and the 384/768MB cards. Can anyone point me towards a review of the 512MB model? If not...

Lately we're seeing lower demand = price up. I work in retail and am seeing the manufacturers jack up their prices in an attempt to stay profitable.

That is why AMD should have embraced the Linux folks when the OS started to gain traction and actively supported it. If enough support ($$$ *and* pro design help) was put into Linux when its name started crossing everyone's tongues then Linux could very well be a major platform now instead of...