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Hi. I recently bought Team Fortress 2 and have played it for about 15 hours without any problem. I have recently started to get big artifacts in the loading screen / game and decided to reformat and reinstall Windows with new drivers etc. I was able to play TF2 for a few hours last night without any issue but now it artifacts after about 1 min every time. I installed latest ForceWare ...

dunno if anyone gives a crap about this but everytime a new official whql driver came out from nvidia i would update to it and then run a 3dmark vantage run to see if there was any difference to it. i know that 3dmark means jack to real world gaming etc etc but its something i can easily run and get a rough idea where things are going. thought i would share this with you guys since iv done a few ...

So i finally got my second 8800GTS card and set up sli on my sytem all went according to plan So just for fun i thought id see what score's i would get running 3dmark06 on a single card and then on the sli'd cards the scores i got are strange for a single card i got 7926 For SLi i got 8419 now i know an sli system gives better score's i wasnt expecting double but thought with the single...

just down loading. http://downloads.guru3d.com/Forcewar...load-2122.h tml

Had a little search around but couldn't see this posted anywhere, apologies if it has been already. Supposedly viral marketing from AMD/ATI, should raise a few smiles http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NqEzyvvc6o8

Description: The Club 3D HD 4870 OC Edition is overclocked to the next level for improved frame rates and better overall performance gains in the hottest Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 games. Redefine the way you play and take HD gaming to the extreme with best-in-class performance. A must have when looking for extreme Graphics Power for your precious and brute Gaming Rig. Key ...

not sure if been posted already, but heres a vid of mirrors edge on pc using physx, looks quite good http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55999

Quote: This morning, NVIDIA announced the details of the Release 180 (R180) drivers. Touted as the next best thing since sliced bread (or at least the original Big Bang drivers), the R180 drivers will do more than just offer faster gaming performance. NVIDIA outlined four main features of the R180 drivers, namely : * Faster gaming performance, of course! Hey, we ...

Sorry to hear that dude. Hope all ends well.

Not a bad oc,havent pushed it any further yet. Idle temps are 50c and seen it go as high as 83c under load. Running a Q9450 at 3.4GHz under Vista64 with the Physx drivers installed:

Quote: A news-story at TechPowerUp! web-site suggests that ATI is about to release code-named ATI RV790 graphics processing unit (GPU) that will be a redesigned version of the code-named RV770 chip – which powers ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics boards – capable of running at considerably higher clock-speeds than 750MHz From what I gather its to ...

Drivers: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx Release notes: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ease_notes. pdf Quote: Performance Improvements The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ FarCry 2 – performance gains of 3 to 10% for Single card mode and 8 to 14% in Crossfire mode, with some specific ...

Quote: This morning, NVIDIA announced the details of the Release 180 (R180) drivers. Touted as the next best thing since sliced bread (or at least the original Big Bang drivers), the R180 drivers will do more than just offer faster gaming performance. NVIDIA outlined four main features of the R180 drivers, namely : * Faster gaming performance, of course! Hey, we ...

Who is thinking they will be likely to stick with their current graphics set up way into the new year? I was thinking about this as at the moment is there anything on the horizon which is actually going to stress many of our current setups? Now obviously the credit crunch has begun and also the exchange rate has fallen which has helped to rise the price of our current tech so unless you are ...

Description: The Club 3D HD 4870 OC Edition is overclocked to the next level for improved frame rates and better overall performance gains in the hottest Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 games. Redefine the way you play and take HD gaming to the extreme with best-in-class performance. A must have when looking for extreme Graphics Power for your precious and brute Gaming Rig. Key ...

firstly thanks everyone who advised me on psu, case, 260 questions i had over that past week regarding the 260. in my computer room at this moment in time is a brandnew rma replacement sapphire 4870 512 ( unopened ) and a 260 core 216 ( sitting in my system ) due to me being very impatiant i bought and evga 260 until the 4870 was replaced. reading various people comments and rants and ...

Sorry to hear that dude. Hope all ends well.

Is this card worth buying now? I am really regretting not buying one when they were £50 cheaper

Hi Guy's, This issue is rather odd and i could do with some advice! basically when i restart my computer the system posts but the graphics card does not display anything, it's just a black screen. I didn't realise at first because my speakers were low, but you hear the vista login sound. This issue only happens with a restart, if i shut down and cold boot everything works fine. In ...

Which out of 4870 512mb gddr5 or GTX 260 running 1920 x 1200