Campquake Senate

I was getting some blue screens during BF2 play.

I downloaded ATI tools for my Radeon 850 XT PE

It has a temperature monitor, and customized fan settings.

At idle, the vid card is running 70 C.

During BF2 it was getting 95 C

I tweaked the fan settings, and now it stays right around 90 C, and has stopped the blue screens.

Man, boiling water temps!

got any eggs?

That doesnt seem right at all.. I wonder if the heatsync on the chip isnt seated right, or the thermal compound between the two was applied wrong?

yeah I'd try to take it back, or at least call their support line.

My GeForce 6800 GT is 65c at rest and 75c at play. With a default high alarm at 120c.

My P4 2.8 Prescott is 44c at rest and 56c at play. I probably should buy a sound card to offload some of the work from the Prescott! I'm still waiting for the SoundBlaster Xfi Fatal1ty to release for that.

wow, what functions do you require out of a sound card to validate spending enough for a fatal1ty card? I've never heard any sound difference from any sound card, except for old 8-bit cheap on boards. I guess if you plan to do something weird like mix music from two sources at once? I dunno.

Torque wrote:wow, what functions do you require out of a sound card to validate spending enough for a fatal1ty card? I've never heard any sound difference from any sound card, except for old 8-bit cheap on boards. I guess if you plan to do something weird like mix music from two sources at once? I dunno.

My motherboard has the $2 on-board sound card. And it doesn't have enough Ooomph to power my Bose headphones. My cans sound like a couple of dogs being whooped when I want to listen to anything at volume! I've tried the bargin $79 sound cards, and it faired slightly better. At least the Windows startup WAV file plays without breakup when the computer boots. But they still lack the proper amplification. Therefore, X-fi.

I still remember the first time I loaded up Diablo2 and turned on the 3D Hardware sound effects, and then walked into the evil cave of doom.

The echos were great. A lot of motherboard sound chips cant produce those effects, at least not without hosing the CPU.

That justifies the price to me hehe

Audigy 2zs 5.1 here, sounds neato!

Neophyte wrote: My cans sound like a couple of dogs being whooped when I want to listen to anything at volume!

Dude, I didn't know you had cans! I thought you were, well, a dude!

Rico wrote:
Dude, I didn't know you had cans! I thought you were, well, a dude!

That's jugs you nimrod! Hahahaha! I thought your mom taught you everything, but apparently, she only taught the Navy about the birds and bee's!