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ganset10 wrote:Only if you overclock, and you may need a stick of cheapo DDR2 <800 to boot your board first to bump the voltage up for the DDR2-800.the change to 2GB sounds good, is the DDR2 800 worth it?
king_kilr wrote:Only info I could find is G80(Nvidia DX10) is estimated for September although that could be an old projection, my advice is wait, sorry
gbcrush wrote:Meh. Remove all the DX10 mumbo-jumbo from that and just think about it this way. Get the best value within your budget, based on what's available and what you think might be available soon. Don't over-obsess about features, but don't completely ignore them either, depending on how long you keep your card. The DX10 checkbox won't be especially important/vital for a few years.Scratch that I'm a moron. You could pick up a DX10 card early (if they come out) and still run it for DX9 games for now.
My thought still stands though, if you can afford a nice modern DX9 card without hurting yourself too much, I'd get that and play it out until the DX10 cards show incredible performance benefits or games you want start using DX10 features.
gbcrush wrote:That's not really a concern. Once parts ship en masse the featureset of cards isn't going to change enough to matter. It never has, within a given directx generation. Maybe you're concerned about the next gen being stinkers performance-wise, but that risk is always there to some extent.No point in getting a DX10 card and locking yourself into its features early if they're gonna start making better DX10 cards once Vista and DX10 games actually come out.
ganset10 wrote:i'm very happy to report that both systems are up and running with no problems. I do have a two questions,
How do you change the memory timings? right now it's reading 5 5 5 18 and i'd like to run it at 4 4 4 12 or at least 5 5 5 15. I tried the 4 and it refused to boot at all. had to remove the battery to clear bios.
And the Core and Memory clock speeds for the X1900XTX i bought show as 648core and 774memory are these correct? I know the specs say 650 and 1550, is there a clock mulitplyer for the memory?
so far everything else looks fine, thanks for the help
ganset