Posts by blade

Idle temps of 47 seem really high. Mine is 36 - 38 for normal idling. It goes up to 40 if the fans get dusty. I usually clean my fans out every month or so. Haven't checked idle temp recently for gaming.

I just got my 8790 back today from sager. It had the same exact problem: artifacts ruin any game that uses 3d acceleration. I dunno what they fixed, but have been playing some games now (vampires: bloodlines) for 2-3 hours @ stock...

humm those dot patterns look very much like the ones I had when I played games for too long. First it would artifact and then the screen would get messed up, and my desktop gets covered with those dots. Restart will fix things but I...

either u change it in display settings to affect all games (under advanced settings => D3d, or you can get the omegadriver which allows you to create custom settings for the game, so the accelerations are only in place when you play...

i have no problem playing this game with my 8790 (3.0 ghz, 1 gig ram). You might want to update your graphics driver or directx (since the error is gfx related). But you should have no problems and the game should run smooth with 4x AA...

Glad to see it's shipped out. Hopefully you'll get it back soon, and without any problems. I'm thinking of sending my unit back too, since the point of the machine is to game, and do the occasional work stuff. I'll just hafta stick...

I'm getting bad artifacts too playing any sort of game using hardware rendering. Tried splinter cell, Painkiller, Vampires: Bloodlines, all had bad artifacts. This just happened recently too. After awhile the whole screen gets all...

seeing as how the sager techsupport is closed on weekends, if you could send a copy of the bios to bladeofdarkness@hotmail.com i'd appreciate it. thanks.

oops i forgot to mention if any of you want to transform your XP style to Longhorn style, go grab the Longhorn transformation pack (7.0 should be the latest version).

this site has some very good xp tweaks: http://www.iamnotageek.com/a/10-p1.php also another one is to disable your security center (if you have sp2). go to control pannel=> administrative tools => services, and disable...