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  1. Racingralph

    X1900XT - NFSMW

    Right, will give it a try. Cheers.
  2. Racingralph

    X1900XT - NFSMW

    I've upgraded my whole machine and all works well until I try and run NFSMW. It stutters constantly whilst playing and I can't seen to fix it. I've run fraps to see the frame rate and generally it runs at 50-60 fps @ 1280*1024 will everything on. It even shows 60fps whilst stuttering so I know...
  3. Racingralph

    Overclocking ATI 850xt pe!!

    As I said my card is the HIS model with factory fitted arctic cooling. This is way better than the standard cooler and hence why I've just upgraded to the HIS X1900XT with ICEQ3 cooling. Absolutely honest - with the arctic cooler it runs happily at the maximum frequencies CCC will allow. I...
  4. Racingralph

    X1900XT - Underperfoming?

    Just for intrest I clocked the gpu up to XTX speeds using CCC and it added another 400pts to 3dmark 05.
  5. Racingralph

    X1900XT - Underperfoming?

    Surely my rig should wipe the floor with that game! I'm gutted that it stutters like mad @ 1280 x 1024. Installed the dual core hotfix but not tried it yet - have to wait till I get home tonight.
  6. Racingralph

    X1900XT - Underperfoming?

    It runs at stock because it runs stinkin hot! During Quake 4 the heatpipe gets that hot you can't touch it and the exhaust tunnel gets pretty hot as well. I have the TT Armor super tower case with good cooling which helps but I don't have any temp monitoring software whilst in games, only CCC...
  7. Racingralph

    X1900XT - Underperfoming?

    Another thing - in the CCC the frequencies are 500/594 with the enable clocks for 3d apps greyed out. Does this mean that it throttles itself back until you run a game or benchmark?? I used to run this checked on the previous gpu so it wasn't working as hard at desktop. Looks like you cannot...
  8. Racingralph

    Overclocking ATI 850xt pe!!

    I use the Catalyst driver ATI overdrive software and it works great. My card is the HIS model with the artic cooler and that has happily run at the maximum the driver would allow for well over a year. I have tried ATI Tool but found it pretty poor, during the auto-overclock cycle it would keep...
  9. Racingralph

    X1900XT - Underperfoming?

    Just run a fraps test on my rig and got really poor result in comparison with recent publications running a very similar machine. Ran NFSMW at 1280x1024 with everything fully on and got an average of just 31fps, recent reviews suggest a min of 44fps. My rig:- AMD 4200+ @ 2 x 2.6ghz 2gb...
  10. Racingralph

    Dual Core CPU

  11. Racingralph

    Dual Core CPU

    no, after setup copied the files and it automatically reboots the machine it would not fire up to complete the installation until I had flashed the bios - I didn't manually stop it. Once it rebooted after the bios update the setup continued automaically. Will try installing again later.
  12. Racingralph

    Dual Core CPU

    just thought what it might be, installed windows afresh after build BEFORE I updated the BIOS. It would not finish the windows installation until I had updated the bios so I flashed the bios, booted and then it completed - that must be it. Will install windows afresh tonight and hope for the...
  13. Racingralph

    Dual Core CPU

    yep done all that - no good. amdinfo only shows 1 core. cpu was fine in the MSI board I changed yesterday. The only way I can prove it is ok is to build up my old pc with the other mobo which worked fine
  14. Racingralph

    Dual Core CPU

    tried all stuff from amd website. all drivers and bios are latest. amd cpuinfo software only sees 1 core - have i blown a core? 3d mark, task manager, cpu-z (latest) all see only 1 core. Only device manager / hardware / processor sees both cores. Not sure why this is, all sortware is the...
  15. Racingralph

    Dual Core CPU

    tried the x2 drive from amd - no luck. Any ideas
  16. Racingralph

    Dual Core CPU

    Hi, I've just installed my new DFI Ultra-D and HIS X1900XT but my dual core CPU doesn't appear to have been recognised as a dual core. CPU-Z and task manager don't display both cores either. I've tried a couple of the DFI BIOS with no luck, is there something obvious that I'm missing - can't...
  17. Racingralph

    MSI K8N Diamond Plus...any good?

    Can only give you my experience of MSI. I have the MSI Neo Platinum (skt 754) board and the MSI Neo2 (skt 939) in my 2 machines and both have terrible BIOS support and I have all sorts of problems relating to buggy BIOS'. I too was interested in that board but I have read about problems with...
  18. Racingralph

    DFI Ultra D

    I was aware that it wasn't SLI / crossfire but if I can drop a single X1900 series card in then that will do for me. What do you think of this board in terms of overclocking? As long as I can get the HTT to something like 260 / cpu @ 1.6v then thats more than enough. Basically I'm looking...
  19. Racingralph

    DFI Ultra D

    Can anyone tell me which GPU's are compatible with The DFI Lanparty Ultra-D? ATI / Nvidia or both? Can't seem to find the answer on DFI's site.
  20. Racingralph

    PCI Lock.

    Is there any way I can enable a PCI lock if the BIOS does not automatically enable it? Basically I have updated the BIOS due to my new SATA2 drive not being compatible with the old BIOS. After doing this there appears to be no PCI lock because when I ramp the frequencies up using clockgen the...
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