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Quick question about the aforementioned Asus Essence STX II sound card. I'm just doing a new build, and I've put this card in the bottom-most X4 slot, to give my GPU room to breath. When it's in this slot, two capacitors on the card are touching the plastic surface of the USB 3.0 front panel...

Someone mentioned on another site that throttling should be in fact working. I went into Device Manager, and for whatever reason there was a standard VGA Adapter installed alongside the 580 GTX, as well as some hidden older Monitor profiles. Uninstalled those, rebooted, and now things are...

After being a longtime ATI user, I just switched to Nvidia partly to get a top of the line card, and partly because I'm getting fed up with ATI's habit of screwing things up on a regular basis. Anyway, after getting my GTX 580 installed, I'm curious about the stock clock speeds. With ATI...

The AvP is cool, but those models are retarded dense when tesselation is on. They're denser than a typical 3D-model they use for CG in a big-budget film.

God, with the size of these things we're going to need some sort of new tech in the future so we can have external video-cards. Have it set up in some enclosure like an external HD, and then we can just plug-and-play it where we want. Hell, that would even let us hot swap cards as needed. Buy...

While I do wish ATI would have better stock cooling on their cards, it's a bit shortsighted to say they're just crap at making coolers. 3D cards are very expensive to begin with, and ATI doesn't want to unnecessarily raise the price of their cards when the stock cooler will be fine for 90% of...

No, you're thinking of bump-maps. Bump-mapping is a texture trick to make it look like there's depth. Dsiplacement maps are textures that actually modify vertices in 3-dimensions to achieve depth.

Something about the Tesselation in this benchmark seems fishy. If the Tesselation feature is dynamically generating new polys for increased detail, how exactly do the program know how to shape those polys into the right shape for a particular bit of detail? I know you can use displacement and...

Yeah, it's pretty damn quiet. I wouldn't call it silent, but it's certainly something you don't really notice unless you make an effort to listen for it. I didn't have a spare Noctua for the bottom compartment, so I used a spare 1100rpm Gentle Typhoon I had. It's either that or the 4890 that's...

I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan, I just found it hilarious that Bioware release an EXTREEEEMMEEE!!!1 trailer glorifying the amount of blood and violence in the game, all set to Mansons "The New Shit". A week later after the entire fanbase exploded at the ridiculous aim of Biowares marketing...

Don't you guys understand? This game is The New Shit™. The New Shit™ won't be denied.

Lets just go back to ultra basics and name cards extremely simply. "Introducing our latest card, the ATI-1. Stay tuned cause in a few months well be releasing the ATI-2, with future plans for the ATI-3 next year."

So you're saying if I set everything to high quality, I'll have better IQ in my games? Damn, this is news! Can we get this on the front page?

Choices are nice, but no one bothered to take advantage of the upgradability. You could argue that only audio techs would bother using this feature on a card like the AWE32, but then again, no serious audio tech was going to buy an AWE32 when far superior pro-audio solutions existed.

It's not actually out yet, it hasn't sold-out.