Posts by Alucard21

I know what that is, it is called an artifect. It usually happens when the Graphics card is overheating. On my 8790 I had the same problem, it was because a lack of the proper amount of coolent gel on my GPU. I sent it back RMA and...

I used dvdinfo-pro, it recognizes the drive but it doesn't recognize any media. What do you think?

MilkMan, thats what I thought. G-Omaha, thanks i'll check that out and let you know what happens.

Ok, this morning I watched a dvd on my laptop, played some games. I turned it off, turned it back on this evening, put in a dvd and the drive shows the disk as blank. I tried a cd, also blank, but the game still runs from the cd, but...

could someone send me the new bios drivers. dshenker@gladstone.uoregon.edu thanks

Ok so I tried a bunch of drivers and graphics options, turned v-sync always on etc... some drivers i.e. the new omega ones run with less artifects but they are still there and very annoying. Looks like i'll be waiting for tech support...

Turtle check out these two threads for a better description. http://notebookforums.com/showthread...075#post195075 http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=21308 Thanks Nandro I put in a tech support e-mail, hope I can fix these...

Nandro, what is a RMA?

Hey guys, just got my 8790. I am very impressed with it, but I am having one problem when I play some of the newer games such as Farcry and UT2004 I am experiencing pixel tearing (i think thats the term for it) the problem seems to be...

thanks for the info guys what about the 3.4 northwood does it have hyperthreading? is it worth getting the 8790 with the prescott or the northwood because of the screen size, 256 mg gpu, etc... over the 5690 w/ p4 3.4 with hyperthreading