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    official AMD/ATi Catalyst 8.9 Drivers thread

    same problem as 8.8 after few mins of gaming the fan turned to 100% , black screen , system was responsive as i could hear teamspeak voice chat 8.7 was working fine if this keeps on going on i have to downgrade , does anyone knows some kind of perma solution for this what could be the problem?
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    How much ram can u use on XP 32bit?

    3.25 gb it shows here
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    ATI Catalyst 8.8 released

    okay , so my system is crashing w/ this driver first there were green vertical lines and system was hanged up while playin game. then i was watching some tv shows and the screen just went black , no signal on both lcds , but the sound from the tv show was working and system was stuck and...
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    Building a New Rig Recommendations Plz

    Replace Q9450 with Q9550 not much diff 10-15$
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    Installing Mobo drivers (rampage formula)...always necessary?

    in xp32bit , the chipset drivers from intel sucked bad for me , system was a bit slow than the drivers and inf files that came w/ the cd so ill stick to that for now
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    Which Motherboard for Q9550?

    rampage formula gets my vote aswell infact i am running a q9550 on it (upgraded it few days back) working like a charm :)
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    ATI/AMD driver stability

    i switched from nvidia to ati and i think ati has bad drivers there are simply too many problem example one being alt+tab from warcraft 3 ft to desktop takes 1-2secs (both on same rez + no aa/af or vsync and same refreshrate) and if voice chat is going on alt+tab makes the voice hang+repeat if...
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    Q9550 E0 Stepping - Anyone Got One? OC Results?

    i bought the C1 , is there any big diff?
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    Q9550 price drop...$329 @ Amazon

    i read some oc results on it , its easily achieveable
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    Q9550 price drop...$329 @ Amazon

    i just got my 2 month used Q9300 upgraded to Q9550 exchange with a nice deal :D
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    ASUS TOP 4870 Bios Flash Available

    i revived the card back up again but ccc wont install and for some reason my spdif onboard to logitech is dead well .. any idea edit : 8.6 just installed fine its the 8.7 which is not working
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    ASUS TOP 4870 Bios Flash Available

    same thing happened to me few hrs back.(card wont post btw) , so i hooked up an old 8500gt on the upper pci-e slot to get display and 4870 on the bottom one , it does get dectected though how did you recover it ? by using Blazestorm 's way ? atiflash -i doesnot show anything from cmd...
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    Virgin to a 4870 ( help needed )

    just got my his 4870 today <3 , i was using a nvidia card before so i uninstalled the drivers , and ran cleaner pro and deleted nvidia files and did a shutdown swap cards , installed drivers(ati 8.7) but there are some catalyst options that i am unable to get. using 2x22 lcds , did a...
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    Do you remember your first graphics card?

    riva tnt 2 > nvidia 4200 > nvidia 5200 > nvidia 6800GT > nvidia 9800gtx > ati 4870(soon):)
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    BFG customer service? Good or bad?

    i am from pakistan , and bfg accepted my rma's from here (which is a dream come true) unfortunately now bfg's are at retail stores now which wont give warranty more than 1year which is the main reason for me following MSI path because they give full 3 year warranty over here and that...
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    How much faster is GDDR5 than GDDR3?

    dude seriously you need to smoke up a bit and stop thinking too much :cool:
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    Rampage Formula or Maximus II Formula

    if you want to run a single card , i would suggest you go w/ P5Q series and save up money
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    x264 1080P playback..

    DONT LISTEN TO ANYONE AND READ THIS ONLY! http://www.filehippo.com/download_kmplayer/ - use KMPLAYER and you will thank me for the rest of your life.(waiting for your thanks :p) it will even run hd on a shit pc
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    1gb 4850s in stock @ the egg!

    is there any review on 4850 1gb also the 4870 1gb? pls post the link
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    eVGA and XFX Defect from Nvidia

    things just keep better and better for us :p
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    worth upgrading from a Q9300 to Q9450/Q9550

    good reason thats what i thought i wont oc it , i just multitask and run dual screens and play wow/dota and few games here and there whatever is in the trend . basically i am looking for a future proof system which i wont have to upgrade in less than 2 years i guess ill wait a bit and get...
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    1GB versions of the HD 4000 cards?

    anyidea how will be the performance of the 1gig cards compare to the 512mb ones?
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    worth upgrading from a Q9300 to Q9450/Q9550

    so as the topic says 'worth upgrading from a Q9300 to Q9450/Q9550' as i am getting this exchange policy - few $ from my current 9300 really worth the upgrade to q9450?(no eta for 9550 atm)
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    Getting a 4870.

    thanks that will help , waiting for it since it will arrive on sat at the store :) gl to me
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    Getting a 4870.

    thanks a lot , i am actually outside US/UK so i dont really have a choice to buy online. guess ill go w/ msi and the warranty is i think is 3 years which is fine for me :) but that means i still have to edit the bios to setup the fan speed for it to cool (reading that atm , have everyone...
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    Getting a 4870.

    the local store was out of stock of the HIS 4870 but MSI version is coming out in less than a week and i wanted to know if its safe to buy?(his wont be coming for a month or so) has anyone tested msi 4870 ? cant seem to find reviews at all any advice/help would be nice Thanks.
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    ATI-based brands to avoid?

    HIS brand is very good here so is warranty.
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    280/260 price drops!

    http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8283&Itemid=1 Down by a lot more than expected Online retailer Newegg has already dropped the prices of some of its Geforce GTX 280 and 260 card and the price drop is a lot more than expected. Asus and MSI GTX 280 cards...
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    x48 board decision - what to buy?

    /vote rampage
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    New motherboard time, which x48 board?

    /vote rampage
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    9800GTX or ATI 4800

    i dont really have a choice after the release actually:(
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    9800GTX or ATI 4800

    guess i am just going to do that :)
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    9800GTX or ATI 4800

    i have a 9800gtx which i can return and wait for new ATI or Nvidia series suggestions ? 1 :keep 9800gtx 2 :return it asap and get a 30-50$ card for few days?
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    new nvidia drivers Forceware 177.26

    seems like they are on asus's ftp ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/vga/nVidia/nv17726_Win2KXP.zip => xp 32 ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/vga/nVidia/nv17726_WinXP64.zip => xp 64 ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/vga/nVidia/nv17726_Vista32.zip => vista 32...
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    System Reboots when Idle w/ Error OC Failed

    long story .. gona keep it short it was one of my ram modules i took one out random and system ran file with 1x2gig stick for 2 days(that module passed memtest actually)
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    no SLI ready Nehalem chipsets?!

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9956256-7.html UPDATE 5:48pm PT - Intel released an additional statement after this blog was posted. "We are not seeking any SLI concession from Nvidia in exchange for granting any Nehalem license rights to Nvidia," the company said. good bye nvidia :)
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    System Reboots when Idle w/ Error OC Failed

    just since 3 days i am having a problem when only i leave my system idle(for hrs) the error says overclocking failed F1 to continue i use my system easily for 8-10 hrs a day and when i go to sleep and leave it idle and the next morning i find it stucked at bios sayin oc failed (i`m not...
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    Loadline calibration -- your thoughts?

    i just have downloads going on , i stress test it all day and play games like grid/aoc all day long my cpu cores are idle around 44-46 and at load they are 50-52 max (cpu temp is 32-36 at all times) bsod is not giving any error about .dll or .sys there is a problem w/ rampage and LLC and...
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    ASUS Maximus Formula @ [H]

    i have been having problems w/ my system and have been reading its because of LLC enabled (on 45nm quads mostly)so i tried to manual the settings on extreme tweaker and running everything on stock and upped the nb voltage to 1.4 but still having problems and it crashes when i leave my pc...
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