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The situation is this, I've recently purchased a 7970 (upgrade from 5770 crossfire) which has changed me world. I've been seeing all these awesome eyefinity screenshots and I'd like to get in on the goodness. The problem I have is that my main monitor is a TN 1920x1200 monitor. I've tried...

This is just a backup and I will be migrating as storage mediums change, etc. So, I'm hoping not to get into a situation 10 years down the road and not know what's happened :) Also, someone else made a good recommendation about making sure to put a copy of the par2 software on each disc (in...

I picked up the Sapphire 7970 and it's humming along at 1125core/1500ram at stock voltage without any hiccups. And it came stacked with adapters :)

Sapphire 7970 stock voltage 1125 core, 1500 ram, (basically maxed sliders) max temp about 80c with fan at 39% (auto-fan settings in Afterburner). Played SWTOR for hours with 95%+ utilization with no hitches.

Got my Sapphire 7970 and it's installed and wonderful. Can finally crank up the AA, etc. I am noticing, however, that I get an occasional screen flicker on my main monitor (two-monitor setup) in SWTOR when I'm running in windowed mode. When I switch to fullscreen, no flicker. I wonder if...

Just got my Sapphire 7970, waiting for the new drivers to install (looking at a 640x480 screen right now while I wait). Oh man, I'm so excited. I haven't had the top of the line of a video card since the Diamond Monster 3D (Before Canopus came out with the 6MB Pure 3d). Drivers done, time...

It's actually not from buy.com. If you read the text, it's actually TigerDirect selling through buy.com. I'm not sure how that makes sense for either company, but well, there it is...

Ordered a Sapphire last night. Newegg shipped it today and I keep hitting refresh on the tracking number, just so I can see with my own eyes that it's coming :) Super excited to retire my crossfired 5770s.

Sorry, didn't know it was my job to convince you. I'll try and do better next time. Although I'm not sure what more I could have said than YOUR OLD CARDS ARE ONLY GETTING OLDER AND WILL THEREFORE LOSE VALUE, ESPECIALLY WHEN NEWER CARDS WITH BETTER RELATIVE PERFORMANCE FOR THE DOLLAR DEBUT...

Sell them now before they lose even more value with the release of the rest of the 7XXX series cards.

MSI 7970 is still in stock, but I'm not sure it's worth the $30 premium. The Diamond cards are now out of stock.

What adapters, if any, came with the diamond cards? Nothing is listed on the product page, but I need a mini-DP to DVI adapter with my 7970....

Most of the difference between the various brands is based on customer service level and extra bits in the retail package. I was going to pick up the diamond package, but I've read some horrid stuff about their C.S. To be fair, almost all companies have at least one or two horror stories, but...

Wow, completely missed this game, but it looks awesome. It actually sort of reminds me of what Fable SHOULD have been :)

Bah, I bought a Gigabyte 7970 two days ago from Newegg, then got cold feet about spending that much on a video card and canceled the order. Then I changed my mind and decided to order it again, but it was out of stock. Last night at 12:30am it's back in stock at Newegg, but I get some weird...

More than just the lack of microstutter, the upgrade path is much more clear from a single 7970. There will always be the possibility to add another for crossfire later, whereas a pair of 6950s, unlocked or not, is a dead end solution. Great framerates now, but no room for expansion. Not...

The $139 5870 was for a refurbed card and I think there were lots of people having issues with them (if we're talking about the Ben's Outlet deal). The 5870 is not faster than a 5970. The 5770 is still a pretty solid card. I've got two in crossfire and they're holding up. David

Just bought a Gigabyte 7970 from Newegg. Wow, most expensive single piece purchase for my PC ever. My wife has no idea how much it costed... Holy jeez, I'm excited. It thought about waiting for the 7950, but with only an anticipated $100 difference between the 3GB model and the 7970, I...

I guess I'm struggling to see the point of waiting for the 7950. If the 3GB version hits at $449 as expected, there's only a $100 price difference. At the point you're dropping $450 on a video card, it seems like tossing out another $100 to get the top of the line, and a month early to...

BossBorot is selling 2 x 560 GTIs in the For/Sale Trade forum for $190 a piece, shipped. Pretty good deal. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1663869 *** not affiliated w/BossBorot, just trying to be helpful ***

I get the same issues with a 5770 and 12.1 drivers.

So, my wife is an avid amateur photographer and shoots in RAW, so I've got about 250GBs of photographs to backup. I recently purchased a bluray writer with the intent of creating a backup set of all her photographs and then burning new discs as we go along, adding to the backup set. Her...

Oh god, I remember trying to go through the tunnel with my barb shaman and no nightvision, turning gamma way up on my monitor so I didn't get lost... Those were the days. But, I don't want them back :) Have a job and family now, so no time for 10 hour grind session and waiting for Jboots...

One major difference between the two would be the alternate advancement system, which I sort of missed from WoW. Gave you something to work on besides gear, although from a balance perspective it's irritating that it became a content gateway so much so that if you started EQ now you'd need to...

This! Oh man, the Wing Commander games were so epic. In 3 & 4, your character is played by Luke Skywalker! Prophecy was awesome too. The games really made you feel like part of a movie and the scale was epic. The attack run with the temblor bomb, woohoo! And can't forget Maniac...

I've been playing a lot of SW:TOR lately and I'm approaching the point where I get to choose my legacy name. The name I have in mind honors my all-time favorite and most-satisfying gaming kill. Dorn B'Dynn, Scourge of the Derv Camps of North Ro, Slaughterer of Newbies, and the World's Most...

Be careful with the P8P67 DELUXE. I got one of those to go with my 2700K and it's given me tons of problems. It also apparently has a specific issue with waking from sleep/hibernation and double-posting. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1579942&page=9...

Or save them and buy orange gear for alts :)

FYI - They took out the commendation trader at the end of Beta. Currently, you cannot trade commendations from one planet for commendations from another planet. You can trade PvP comendations for Merc commendations though.

That isn't entirely accurate. Intel controllers that are set to RAID 0 with mechanical drivers can pass TRIM commands to SSDs that are NOT a part of the RAID group but attached to the same controller. There was a lot of confusion about this when the drivers were first announced. As far as...

I'm currently running 2 x 64GB Kingston 325s in RAID0 and it seems awfully snappy, but I'm thinking of buying a larger 120GB SSD and then using the 64GB drives in other builds (wife and HTPC). My question is how much usability is impacted switching from two RAID0 SSDs to a single larger SSD...

There's got to be something more to the story. You can't be convicted of possessing or receiving stolen property unless there's evidence that shows it was stolen (and usually "it's too good to be true" isn't enough). There was probably something else going on...

Yeah, each active displayport adapter costs $60+, so that video card just got a little more expensive...