PureOverclock Forums http://forums.pureoverclock.com Forums for the community of PureOverclock.com, the PC hardware site geared towards enthusiasts and overclockers. en Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:44:09 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.pureoverclock.com/images/misc/rss.jpg PureOverclock Forums http://forums.pureoverclock.com Koolance VID-AR587 GPU Water Block http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8222&goto=newpost Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:30:50 GMT Are you an avid water cooling user? Then you have probably heard the Koolance name before, and if you say “No never heard of them” then you are... Are you an avid water cooling user? Then you have probably heard the Koolance name before, and if you say “No never heard of them” then you are probably the only one. Luckily, we have the opportunity to test one of their new full cover GPU water blocks on the Radeon 5870 graphics card. Let’s find out how well it performs in keeping the beast cool and quiet.



Click HERE for the full review. ]]> Skyguy http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8222 ASUS P6X58D and Silverstone FT02S http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8221&goto=newpost Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:39:01 GMT I have now settled on the following, for now. The questions are: 1. Will I need the Xigmatek Dark Knight if only small OC? 2. The case has 3... I have now settled on the following, for now. The questions are:
1. Will I need the Xigmatek Dark Knight if only small OC?
2. The case has 3 switches for its fans. How can I attach heatsinks to the P6X58D so I can monitor if I should adjust them?

Thoughts: Cool, Quiet, Clean, GOOD Monitor as some eye problems MidTower as it will sit on Desk. Clean as I live in Las Vegas.
Silverstone Fortress SST-FT02S
Seasonic X-750(SS-750KM Active PFC)
Intel Core I7 930
Xigmatek Dark Knight
ASUS P6X58D Premium
Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 KHX1600C9D3K6/12GB
WD Caviar Black 500GB with
Kingston SNVP325-S2/128GB
Sapphire 5850(Vapor-X)
Samsung SH-M523A DVD/CD Combo(2)
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Items still up in the air.
Dell UltraSharp U2410 Rev. 2 or
HP LP2475w
Samsung 2494HS ]]> General Hardware ChuckR http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8221 Ecs A890gxm-a http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8220&goto=newpost Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:43:38 GMT We've got the ECS A890GXM-A, a full sized ATX board based on AMD's new 890GX chipset. Featuring a sharp color scheme we've seen in other ECS Black Series boards, it certainly has the looks, the new brains, but has it got the brawn?



Click HERE for the full review. ]]> Skyguy http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8220 Battlefield Drops SecuROM DRM http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8219&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:41:29 GMT Image: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/500x_bbc21.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/bbc21.jpg) ...

http://kotaku.com/5495130/battlefield-drops-securom-drm

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The Steam version of EA's Battlefield Bad Company 2 is about to get a new patch, and amidst the little tweaks and fixes is some welcome news: the game's SecuROM DRM software will also be uninstalled.

SecuROM has been a pain in the ass of every PC gamer since it first turned up a few years back, so every time it's rolled back should go down as a win for the little guy.
It's the latest in a series of moves by publisher EA, which has scaled back the influence of SecuROM in its PC games in recent months following the disastrous launch of Spore. Dragon Age never had it, Mass Effect's was removed, and now this.

Note, however, this applies only to the Steam version of the game. Guess EA felt Steam's own authentication routines were good enough.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Patched; SecuROM DRM Removed from Steam Version
Good Riddance!! ]]> General Gaming http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8219 Help with couple questions on build please. http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8218&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:22:19 GMT Finally, almost finished with my 1st build. The parts weren't so bad but thought for a while I was in over my head when I saw all the wires in this front panel.

Couple problems I need help with.

First my fan controllers on the front of the case don't seem to work. Here is an image of the connections. Not sure I have them correct. In top of photos is molex plugs from modular PSU. Middle is the fan connectors. Why does it have both a male & female molex plug? Is it to piggy back? I usually see them piggy back right on top the other. I plugged the female end of fan into the PSU male end. The other small connector is what I plugged into the bottom white plugs. They are suppose to go to the fan control knob. I plugged the 2 exhaust fans into one set of the 2 white connectors & the 2 intake fans into another set. Fans run, just don't adjust with the knobs. Is there a setting on the board I have to change to get it to work? ASUS P58xD premium.



Next problem.
I installed 3 hard drives. The first is a SSD & it is recognized & I was able to install Win 7 Pro 64bit on to it. The other 2 drives are a 750 WD black & a 1TB WD black. They show up in the device manager & say they are working properly, but don't show up when I look at "My Computer"

I plan to use the 750 drive to store things I use a lot for my photography(backgrounds templates, photo shop actions).
The 1 TB is for my working drive when I do photo editing. This is the drive I will do most writing to.

How do I get these to be recognized? Do I need to partition them or just leave them as the large size? Again, my OS is on the SSD & that is where I will also put my main programs.

Thanks, Hoping to get this completed & programs installed here soon.


PS One other question, how do I get to the screen that shows the temperature of the CPU? ]]> General Hardware Traz http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8218 <![CDATA[NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Final Specs & Pricing Revealed]]> http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8217&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:47:56 GMT
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We have received the final specs for GeForce GTX 480 and 470 which are slated for official launch on March 26th 7pm US time. Coincidentally, an official photo of the GTX 480 has been leaked in our forums here : http://forums.vr-zone.com/news-around-the-web/586418-finally-official-picture-geforce-gtx-480-a.html

GeForce GTX 480 : 512 SP, 384-bit, 295W TDP, US$499

GeForce GTX 470 : 448 SP, 320-bit, 225W TDP, US$349

Internal benchmarks reveal that GeForce GTX 470 is some 5-10% faster than Radeon HD 5850 and similiar for GeForce GTX 480 over the Radeon HD 5870. Interestingly, the TDP of GeForce GTX 480 is almost similar to Radeon HD 5970 which is a dual GPU card. Interestingly, our sources revealed that there are indeed plans for dual Fermi cards and the TDP of the card is probably gonna be mind blowing.
Source: http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-g...aled/8635.html ]]> Graphics Cards http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8217 <![CDATA[Microsoft's Secret Data Centers]]> http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8216&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:38:51 GMT Image: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7666/500xmsftdatacentertopim.jpg (http://img214.imageshack.us/i/500xmsftdatacentertopim.jpg/) ...

http://gizmodo.com/5495174/this-is-t...h-data-centers


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"The cloud" isn't some nebulous thing existing just beyond your computer's consciousness. As Microsoft showed us, it's stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data centers all around the world. Physically real, but still beautiful.
Raid 0 x millions!!!!

I read google runs their servers in shipping containers as well. ]]> Operating Systems http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8216 New Team Fortress 2 item drops! http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8215&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:04:46 GMT Check it out: http://www.tf2items.com/id/thatdamncat Image: http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/290/whatisitm.jpg ---Quote--- Nobody really knows... Check it out:
http://www.tf2items.com/id/thatdamncat



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Nobody really knows what's going on, but it seems many people have started getting unknown item drops. Most are thinking it's the start of the engi update, but Valve is yet to confirm anything.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1193699 ]]> PC Games http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8215 Raid 0 Noob need help http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8214&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:22:17 GMT Okay so i started on this forum with my i7 920 and with all the help from the community i got my i7 920 oc'd to 4.1ghz stable 24/7 use

So my next project was to setup a Raid 0 array "Never done anything like this before" the most i have ever done involving hard drives was split a hard drive into partitions

I kind of rushed into this whole raid 0 idea without researching alot hopefully it dont come back to bite me in the ass so i purchased

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500gb (ST3500418AS) x 2 $58 Each

to run in raid 0

First of are these hard drives good for raid 0 or should i have got something better for the money i spent ?

i want to install my OS and games onto these and using my other 1tb Western digital i will store my music and all that other kind of stuff


So where do i being with this raid 0 how do i set it up what tips or tricks or things do i need to be careful of etc any advice would be greatly appreciated

Also will i be able to use the windows 7 back up utility to clone my c:\ (has os on it currently) and then load it onto the new raid 0 array without any issues ? ]]> Vitale87 http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8214 Cooler Master USP 100 http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8213&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:16:29 GMT The Cooler Master the UPS 100 has been designed for the enthusiast, and comes with some nice features that most users have come to expect in a ... The Cooler Master the UPS 100 has been designed for the enthusiast, and comes with some nice features that most users have come to expect in a chassis. It also includes a respectable 550W power supply to add to the value here. We take a closer look to see how well it stacks up.



Click HERE for the full review. ]]> Skyguy http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8213 <![CDATA[Catalyst 10.3a Preview "Performance Drivers" Now available]]> http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8212&goto=newpost Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:31:49 GMT ---Quote--- ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements * Display Bezel Compensation o Easy-to-use wizard shows users how...
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ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements

* Display Bezel Compensation
o Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
* Per-Display Color Adjust
o Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
* Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
o Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
* Improved Display Configuration switching
o Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
* Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes
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ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses

* AMD has updated it's Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye) And claimed performance gains published by HardOCP
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...driver_update/


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Aliens vs. Predator

* Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Battleforge

* Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Call of Duty: World at War

* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Company of Heroes

* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Crysis and Crysis Warhead

* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

DiRT 2

* Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

* Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

* Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Far Cry 2

* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

* Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2

* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky

* Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Resident Evil 5

* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.

* Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

* Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

World in Conflict

* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Source and download links

http://twitter.com/CatalystMaker/statuses/10628048299 ]]> Graphics Cards http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8212 PC game Sales Charts for February. http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8211&goto=newpost Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:20:22 GMT
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The NPD has released its list of February's 20 best-selling PC titles. With a string of high-profile PC releases including Star Trek Online and BioShock 2, the list this month is a little more varied than the Sims and Warcraft love-in the NPDs usually show. Here's the monthly results:

1) The Sims 3: High-End Loft Stuff--released Feb. 2010
2) Star Trek Online--released Feb. 2010
3) The Sims 3--released June 2009
4) Star Trek Online Collector's Ed.--released Feb. 2010
5) BioShock 2--released Feb. 2010
6) EverQuest II: Sentinel's Fate Expansion Pack--released Feb. 2010
7) Mass Effect 2--released Jan. 2010
8) World of Warcraft: Wratch of the Lich King--released Nov. 2008
9) The Sims 2 Double Deluxe--released Nov. 2008
10) The Sims 3: World Adventures--released Nov. 2009
11) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2--released Nov. 2009
12) World of Warcraft: Battle Chest--released Sept. 2007
13) EverQuest II: Sentinel's Fate Expansion Pack Collector's Ed--released Feb 2010
14) IGT Slots: Texas Tea--released Sept. 2009
15) The Sims 3: Collector's Ed--released June 2009
16) Dragon Age: Origins--released Oct. 2009
17) Mumbo Jumbo Assortment--released July 2009
18) World of Warcraft--released November 2004
19) Aliens vs. Predator--released Feb. 2010
20) The Sims 2: Fun with Pets--released Jan. 2010
http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/...e-in-feb-npds/

I predict BF:BC2 on top of this week's chart. ]]> PC Games http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8211 Slim model 360 *GPU/CPU on single die* http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8210&goto=newpost Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:48 GMT Image: http://i40.tinypic.com/dg14d1.jpg ---Quote--- These pictures apparently show the guts of a new model of the Xbox 360. The important bits?...

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These pictures apparently show the guts of a new model of the Xbox 360. The important bits? The fact that for the first time the console combines the CPU and the GPU in a single chip. Oh, and it's small .
The pic above shows the board in question, with the chip part of a rumoured redesign for the Xbox 360 console, testing of which has recently been completed in China. This isn't simply a new board for the existing hardware, either; it's reportedly a total redesign of the console. Think the PS3 Slim, only...for an Xbox 360.
Now, considering the source, there's every reason to be sceptical of the images, and the info. Then again, with Natal due later this year, rebooting the 360 itself to go along with it would make a lot of sense, especially if a reduction in size could come with a reduction in cost .
What do you think? Legitimate Chinese leak, ala the PS3 Slim , or just some punks pulling a stunt?
UPDATE - Removed erroneous information about Intel chipsets.

XBOX360新款主机蓄势待发 [A9VG, thanks Yang Bo!]
http://m.kotaku.com/site?t=EmYofdIJ0...g&sid=kotakuip ]]> http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8210 ASUS Rampage III Extreme Pixilized http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8209&goto=newpost Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:02:41 GMT Image: http://www.fudzilla.com/images/stories/2010/March/General%20News/asus_rampage3extreme_1.jpg ---Quote--- Asus is still withholding all the...

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Asus is still withholding all the key specifications, price and the availability date, but some features, like support for Intel's LGA 1366 CPUs, triple-channel DDR3 support, four PCI-Express x16 slots with Nvidia NF200 bridge chip and the support for SATA 6.0Gbps and USB 3.0 can be seen from the newly released pictures.

The new Rampage III Extreme will be packed with overclocking-friendly features as well as the support for mobile phone tweaking via Bluetooth, something that Asus is quite keen on promoting these days. The rest of the features include Gigabit LAN, 7.1-channel audio, eSATA, Firewire, and bunch of USB 2.0 ports.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18119/1/ ]]> General Hardware http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8209 Digital Storm Davinci Specs Unveiled http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8208&goto=newpost Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:57:04 GMT Image: http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/8096/500xdavinci1.jpg (http://img692.imageshack.us/i/500xdavinci1.jpg/) ---Quote--- Sure, Digital...

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Sure, Digital Storm's new DaVinci workstation is designed for pros in fields like video editing, it sure looks like a rig a rich nerd would bring to a LAN party.

The DaVinci sports an Intel i7 980X and NVIDIA's Quadro graphics card, both of which are pretty top of the line. And you'll pay for it! The base config of this thing is $2,952.
http://gizmodo.com/5495539/the-works...of-a-gaming-pc ]]> General Hardware http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=8208