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[Help} ATI 7690

guitarjockey — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:36:17 GMT

I have a dv6t quad edition laptop. I updated the drivers on top of the hp drivers like i've read on here to do.

So After applying catalyst 12.2 and setting my BIOS to fixed my computer keeps freezing.

Ill be in the middle of a game and it will just freeze and I have to shut the whole thing down by resetting it. Sometimes Ill just be browsing the internet and it will freeze.

Last night i got a message in steam and after I got the notification sound it froze lol

It only has done this since I switched my bois to fixed and running only the amd card even before I update to the newer catalyst.

It now thinks i have a 6700m so I just overclocked it with afterburner to the default 7690 settings.

Now I've updated to the beta build of catalyst I found on here which has updated my driver to 8.96 and its still freaking out.

I haven't had a total freeze now but I assume my graphics card keeps crashing. Ill be playing Deus ex and it will stall and start looping, then the screen will flash and go to desktop then back to my game. After it comes back it will run a little choppy then be fine. If it is still choppy it will crash again.

I just now had it loop like that 6 times in a row before I finally shut the game off.

I'm at a loss as to what to do is there some driver that works better that wont crash this that I know of?

I disabled dx11 in the game and now it does the above loop, before it would crash the game and the game would quit responding.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Intel "Ivy Bridge" Core i7-3770K is Capable of 100% Overclock

chispy — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:06:46 GMT

" When it comes to the hardware side, we were shown that the processor excels in performance. We saw the samples of Core i7-3770K going from 3.5 GHz to a massive 7.06 GHz clock. By raising voltage to 1.889 Volts, using 63x multiplier and 112.11 MHz and using dry ice - the 22nm beast passed 7000 MHz "

CPU-Z , More info and source here : http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...overclock.aspx

Looks like 6Ghz on water is possible :thumbup:

AMD FX wont run all cores for games

dudesam182 — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:21:50 GMT

Hey, i currently got myself a AMD FX-4100 and i've tried playing serious sam 3 and Deus Ex. I've noticed i don't get the best out of the game because only one core is running the games, i have checked the Affinity and all cores are selected. This is strange because my step dad has a AMD Phenom II X6 1100T and runs these games totally fine. it just seems to be my FX =/ any ideas why this is doing this, every other game is running smoothly like GTA IV and crysis 2... =/

thanks,
Sam

Max VRM temp for the 7970?

Firestorm — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:06:18 GMT

as the title says. does anyone happen to know what it is? i put the accelero xtreme 7970 cooler on my card but instead of using the glue that game with it, i used some 3M 8815 thermal adhesive tape. ive used this stuff in the past and it works really well. its takes a few thermal cycles before it sets in properly though. so in the mean time, im trying to keep an eye on the temps.

thanks.

CS:S graphic problem - need help

Ewilusz — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:05:39 GMT

Well I'm having a bad day, my phone broke and now I have to graphic issues in CS:S.

One is with AA on only: Lines through certain textures.

Other is that for terrorist spawn, the players spawn red for about 5-8 seconds:

Any and all help is appreciated.

Vsync Issue

Zoik — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:38:31 GMT

If I set a game to use vsync or even force vsync and set my Hz to 60 in windows and set it to 60 in games if the option is there It is still giving me 120FPS in games as if the monitor is set to 120Hz.. How come I cant get it down to 60Hz/60FPS?

If your wondering why I want it lower than 120Hz its because I want to have it at 60Hz/60FPS for Battlefield as my card cant not display 120 FPS to Match my monitors 120Hz. If I have vsync off I notice tearing and I just cant handle that.

Now in windows im pretty sure the 60Hz is working but I can notice the difference with mouse movements over a white screen. on 60Hz there is a slight trail behind the mouse and on 120Hz there is no trail.

In game I know its going back up to 120FPS because I have an on screen display that displays my FPS.. it goes to 120 and caps at 120. It should be capping at 60.. What is going on?

BIOS FLASH - Intel 22nm CPU support update - any point?

TonyR — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:26:40 GMT

Im about to format my computer , and whilst i was overlooking the drivers for the chipset i found a really new bios update for my bios.

Intel 22nm CPU support update

Is that going to benefit me?

Theres also

Support ITE8275 FX Ovrevoltage IC
Update CPU microcode

:S

Worth the update?

Help ECS gts 450

fllipperr — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:36:30 GMT

Help i have an ECS GTS 450 (ngts450-1gpi-f1) and messed up flashing the wrong bios and i lost my backup. Would someone please send me the bios for the stock ECS GTS 450 (ngts450-1gpi-f1) please.

Thank you

I'm sick of YouTube!

Nomadspy — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:29:58 GMT

First it was the ugly new stile.Second this automatic playlist is really annoying.And now today after watching few videos i was logged out by force and i had to read some terms of use stuff.Logged in and same thing again :bang:

Diablo III - Re-Managing Expectations

iFRAC7UR3 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:48:58 GMT

"Some of you might have seen some headlines or a certain (obviously sarcastic) blue post that implies that we're unsteady about where Diablo III stands, and that you should temper your expectations when it comes to the next installment in the Diablo series.

Let me be clear: Nothing could be further from the truth.

As those of you in the beta have seen, the game is in good shape. Actually, I should say that the beta version of the game is in good shape. The latest full build we've been testing here in the office is in great shape.

We get a lot of sympathy from the other teams because of the long hours of crunch our design team is putting in, but the secret is that playing through the game as we do final tuning, bug fixes, and optimizations is a real joy. We always know a Blizzard game is almost ready when we have to ask members of the team to stop playing so they can get their work done. That�s definitely been the case around here.

We think you're going to love Diablo III when it's released, and speaking of release plans, you can seriously expect a launch-date announcement from us in the near future. See, I didn�t say �soon,� so I�m not taunting you. ;) You�ll know as soon as I know for sure the exact date.

And by the way, we want you to have high expectations for Diablo III and all Blizzard games. That�s what pushes us to try to make the best gaming experiences we possibly can. If Diablo III wasn�t a worthy next installment in the Diablo series, we wouldn�t release it. That�s the way we do it. That�s the way we�ve always done it.

As I�ve said many times in the recent past, we think Diablo III is coming along great and we can�t wait for you to get your hands on it. We�re doing all we can to ensure you have one hell of a time once you step foot in Sanctuary�

Also, I think Diablo is much more comparable to the Evil Dead series personally, and those just kept getting better. OK, I know a lot of you prefer Evil Dead 2 to Army of Darkness, but come on, Bruce Campbell fights a squad of little Bruce Campbells! Priceless."

ZeroCore broken?

DavidGX — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:34:46 GMT

So I've used the second 11.2 drivers AMD put out for the 7000 series cards, the 12.2 pre-cert, 12.3 beta and the recently released/leaked "12.x" drivers and have had the same issue with all of them. I install the drivers (clean, driver sweeper and all) and upon starting up ZeroCore works fine. At the desktop the second 7970 is off, after I idle until Windows shuts the monitor down, the first 7970 shuts off as well. Absolutely flawless.

However, after a reboot... nothing. Both cards idle at 300/150. Nothing shuts off. I thought, maybe it's MSI Afterburner, so I booted into safe mode and purged it from my system via Revo Uninstaller. After starting into Windows, still the same issue, no ZeroCore.

Is this just a buggy/broken thing with the current state of 7xxx drivers or am I screwing something up?

$15 trillion in fraud exposed...

sovietdoc — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:17:45 GMT

Source: TweakTown

$15,000,000,000,000 ($15 trillion) in fraud exposed in UK House of Lords

Quote:

This is a subject quite close to my chest, our current financial system. Without getting into a personal post, I'll keep this as professional as I can and leave my opinion out of this and just post it as a pure news post to try to get this as viral as possible. I've noticed this post on Reddit about a $15,000,000,000,000 ($15 trillion) fraud case that was bought up to the UK House of Lords by Lord James of Blackheath.

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Is it possible to override the 1.3v Voltage limit in MSI Afterburner?

nightsilencer — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:53:59 GMT

Right now, I'm running my HD 6870 with 1015mhz on the core and 1172mhz on the memory.

This is done with the Voltage slider maxed out, at 1.3v

Is there anyway to override this? I'd like to try a little more voltage to see where and how far this GPU goes. :)

Xonar DG software configuration

PinguX — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:30:02 GMT

Hey guys, I'm looking for help on setting up the asus configuration software for my sound card. The headphones I'm using are Sony MDR-XD200.

Audio Channels - According to the manual, its 2 for MP3, 6 for Dolby Digital/DTS and 8 for games.

Sample Rate - default 96khz, most games use 48khz ?

Advance Setting - VOIP mode or for <32ohm headsets, Pro-gaming mode for 32~64ohm headsets and Exciter mode for >64ohm headsets.

I assume the advance setting is for the headphone amp.

Which setting should I be using for my headphones ?

Thanks

Pingu

Is it just me or is google down atm?

RagDoll_Effect — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:02:43 GMT

Edit: LOL it's working now :)