Recent content by Retsam

Yeah youre gonna be in the 7900GT range. I believe 8800gts is less than $300 now isnt it? If so, that is the best bet. Although I play TF2 with my 7900GT and I have no problems. I wish you luck on someone giving you one though. :P

It really just depends on the case you buy. Thats why some people make sure they have the right case. The right case, enables you to have the ability to hide cables which does help airflow.

Geez, you even went out of the way to make a post on it, you must feel bad. :P What a nice guy. I wish I had sympathy like that for being banned for "hacking" when I dont. But such is life right?

Yeah. I dunno. I definitely dont plan on "buying" or installing vista any time soon. Ill be using XP for a while. Theres really no reason for DX10 yet anyways. On top of that, I always optimize my stuff for FPS, not pretty pixels. Id use the lowest DX possible even if DX10 games were out...

Have fun. We have a cabin up in big bear. Its a good getaway. :P

The thing is, its often much more cost efficient and FPS beneficial to just go with a faster higher model video card than it is to go with 2 slower ones. Video cards and the market changes so fast, buying 2 for sli seems like a waste no matter what cards they are. Ive always been perfectly...

You should have all your settings saved in an autoexec.cfg. Almost all experienced gamers use autoexec.cfg/userconfig.cfg's to hold their saved settings. That way you dont have to worry about editing the keys in game or losing your settings. You can change and test anything you want that way...

Yeah. That often is the best bet assuming you arnt one of those people with a gazillion programs to reinstall and massive gigbytes of data. I guess the vid drivers didnt help? If it still does it after the format, at least you know its most likely driver related. Maybe settings related...

Umm.... So it doesnt happen to steam games only other games? Hard to figure something out like this without being at the computer but, it could be a number of things. Could be hardware issue, or driver issue. Id look at the video card and drivers first. If that aint it, maybe other drivers...

I see. I dont think ill be editing my scopes and such anytime soon. Seems like a cheat to me. I was thinking of looking into some custom skins but, I was afraid the game might think they are cheats and ban you for it. Any skins you recommend? Is there a place to look at them?

I had a 19" widescreen and took it back just because I prefer lower fullscreen ratio's. Most games dont support too many widescreen ratios, which makes it kind of limited. If you play in full screen ratios the quality looks like crap on a wide monitor. I like my 19" fullscreen viewsonic. I...

My question is, wouldnt that be considered a hack? I almost would. Editing graphics things like that is boarderline imo. You could easily argue that gives an advantage or disadvantage to other players. My 2cents.

Question, why cant you check the temps that way? The xfx card should be almost identical to mine.... Unless youre using some specific xfx software that doesnt show temps or something? Is it broken? They should all show temps. I dont have any real info on those specific drivers. You could...

Yeah I mean.....not sure why you would bother posting. If you dropped your mouse and the button isnt working, I think it clearly points to the mouse being broken. The only real option is to buy a new one or of course RMA it assuming it had a warranty. Of course you could open the mouse up and...

Hum. There can be many causes for things like that. #1. It could be overheating. The stock heatsink/fan's are usually fairly crappy on those cards. I own a evga 7900GT myself. I use a custom zalman vf900 heatsink. It is a pure copper custom heatsink fan. My temps never go above about 41C at...