The Computer Megathread

[aludane]

Installed the new ATI AMD Graphics card drivers.

Everything seems to be working alright for now.

[Ad Bot]

[Tokthree]

The latest drivers have been causing flickering issues in games for many people, making their GPU's overload and crash.
I actually had to downgrade to the 11.x series to stop the bluescreens which the GPU crashes were causing for me, I still have crap performance though

[Fluff-is-back]

i5 2500k Get :)

[Mr.jacksaunt]

Will an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 be able to run BF3?

[Nickelob Ultra]

red makes it go fastah
I pushed out the crap sitting in those two drive bays, left the front grates and superglued my spare red fan in there.

[SPooK]

Ethan, I am picking out parts that I intend on buying and I'm stuck in picking my GPU. I want a card with a potential max price of $500. I looked at the XFX Double D Black Edition HD7950 OC and saw it has really solid performance to price against the GTX580. But then I saw that in only about a month and a bit that NVIDIA was releasing it's next generation which looks like it's going to potentially woop AMD's ass by being almost 2x more powerful. I don't know what the NVIDIA cards price range will be but I want to know if you think I should buy my other parts and wait for the NVIDIA card or should I just buy the 7950.

[KoopaScooper]

The latest drivers have been causing flickering issues in games for many people, making their GPU's overload and crash.
I actually had to downgrade to the 11.x series to stop the bluescreens which the GPU crashes were causing for me, I still have crap performance though

What exact video card do you have? My brothers have the XFX HD 6870 and the Sapphire HD 6770, and they're not having these issues...

Will an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 be able to run BF3?

Yes. Maybe not Ultra (maybe, you can go ahead and try,) but it will still run.

Ethan, I am picking out parts that I intend on buying and I'm stuck in picking my GPU. I want a card with a potential max price of $500. I looked at the XFX Double D Black Edition HD7950 OC and saw it has really solid performance to price against the GTX580. But then I saw that in only about a month and a bit that NVIDIA was releasing it's next generation which looks like it's going to potentially woop AMD's ass by being almost 2x more powerful. I don't know what the NVIDIA cards price range will be but I want to know if you think I should buy my other parts and wait for the NVIDIA card or should I just buy the 7950.

The nVidia GTX 650 will be priced around the $200 range when they first come out.
The 580 is still a very nice card, it's overwhelmingly future-proof.

[skill4life]

his last post in here was the 24th last month
that poop
he promised me he'd still be here around may for when i get my $2k build :(

[KoopaScooper]

his last post in here was the 24th last month
that poop
he promised me he'd still be here around may for when i get my $2k build :(

Don't be a baby, Ethan comes back!
(maybe)

[Coolio]

red makes it go fastah

da red ones go fastah

[SPooK]

What exact video card do you have? My brothers have the XFX HD 6870 and the Sapphire HD 6770, and they're not having these issues...Yes. Maybe not Ultra (maybe, you can go ahead and try,) but it will still run.The nVidia GTX 650 will be priced around the $200 range when they first come out.
The 580 is still a very nice card, it's overwhelmingly future-proof.

O_O Wow that's amazing.

[Legodude77]

red makes it go fastah
I pushed out the crap sitting in those two drive bays, left the front grates and superglued my spare red fan in there.

I have that same dvd drive. :3

[Tokthree]

What exact video card do you have? My brothers have the XFX HD 6870 and the Sapphire HD 6770, and they're not having these issues...

ASUS HD 6770

[KoopaScooper]

ASUS HD 6770

Have you tried consulting AMD about the issue with your card and that it's a driver issue?
Does ASUS have a special OEM driver for your card?

[suburb]

Sorry for the bump. I have been having technical dificulties with my 2008 model iMac and its colors on the display. When on mac os x the colors seem to get dark but when on my windows 7 partition the colors are normal. All is set default colorwise, I am at the point I am fed up with this persisting issue of not being able to see a simple photo taken in a dark enviroment. But, turned my mac on this morning and colors became normal. If you read this ethan can you see why this occurs and fyi I have one stuck pixel and this whole ordeal has been happening for about a year now and I am scheduled this saturday to bring my mac into apple under warranty. I just want to know now what the forget went wrong. If the gpu or something needs replacing this will make it the third time but I like my mac to much to give up on it.

Specs:
2.66ghz intel core 2 duo
2gb ram 800mhz ddr2
500gb internal hdd (replaced 6-7 months ago)