ehy guys has anyone tried that striped windows 7 yet??? mine wont install it says that it has failed to install one of the componets and then asks to be restarted

voklskier4452

Provided the block man doesnt steal my dewar at pax i should be ready for some ln2 runs that week

be careful... he just may follow you home.  I heard he was a ninja

+425 Vtt gets me to the 226 bclk ish...

I wouldn't bank on those OS'es to provide any meaningful performance gains.  You'd do just as well turning off your anti-virus before you bench, which I never do, lol...

I cant seem to figure out this 5870. Seems to be a crapshoot at what overclock it runs at, and my peformance doesnt seem up to par for the clocks im running.

For those guys running ATI cards, what settings are you using in the CCC? This seems to effect performance rather 'significantly' as compared to Nvidia's settings.

i dont run an anti virus on my PC, i have a gentoo kasperskey live disk and a knoppix bit defender disk that i use to get rid of viruses. the windows live one care also works well.

the thing that slows my system is the connection to the xbox for media streaming.... even when the xbox is not pluged in it still uses around 20%cpu just looking for the xbox. ****s me off because i cant seem to turn it off now :S

I have no virus software on my bench drive.  Just OS, benchmark programs, drivers, and tweak tools.

Ah, I have all my regular productivity (work stuff) apps loaded up on my Win 7 drive.  It really gets a lot of work done....and moonlights as a bench box at night, lol!  I do have 2 xp os'es that are bare bones though.

Rudster, I don't think anyone uses CCC.  Afterburner seems to be the oc tool of choice.  My settings on the 5870 were 1034 core, 1300 mem, with a slight overvolt via asus smartdoctor of 1.163.  Smart doc only works with an Asus vbios...it was the only way I could figure out how to over-volt the sucker.

hey Q, you going to PAX?  (since your east coast & all)

Q56_Monster
Ah, I have all my regular productivity (work stuff) apps loaded up on my Win 7 drive.  It really gets a lot of work done....and moonlights as a bench box at night, lol!  I do have 2 xp os'es that are bare bones though.

Rudster, I don't think anyone uses CCC.  Afterburner seems to be the oc tool of choice.  My settings on the 5870 were 1034 core, 1300 mem, with a slight overvolt via asus smartdoctor of 1.163.  Smart doc only works with an Asus vbios...it was the only way I could figure out how to over-volt the sucker.

Im using Afterburner. Im referring to the 3D settings, it has a main slider that lets you do Performance vs Quality, I guess ill have to do some testing to figure out what works best.

I think my problem is too much volts. These cards dont seem to scale past 1050mzh ish core no matter how high you go on the volts.

I bought my card from Gunslinger, he already had the ASUS BIOS flashed on it (its an XFX), so I didnt have to do that part myself to get voltage tuning.