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Win Vista 64 bit Ultimate
texasboy:
Its hard to keep up with all the changes. Virgin are about to launch 50Mb broadband. Some interesting reading on this link.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2008/05/01/notes_on_the_future_of_broadband.html.
The edge that cable broadband has over ADSL broadband is obvious in terms of the superior speeds that it can offer. At present Virgin Media have a monopoly on the broadband market, how long this monopoly is likely to last will depend on a number of factors.
BT are considering replacing it's copper wires with fibre-optic cables with a view to chasing the high-speed broadband market. The cost that such a project would incur means that this remains an idea.
cheers
texasboy:
Just a quick update after another month.
MS/Nividia have been steadily increasing support for Vista 64 Ultimate,new drivers,updates etc.
Just downloaded latest graphics driver and there is a remarkable difference to the quality and speed. Can even read the names of the ships in the Panama Canal now ;D
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Quantum:
Is this the 9x.xx set of drivers? If so they have PhysX support :D
texasboy:
That all goes with rig 4.0shaders. Physx.
Here is what I pulled off ntune, keeping in mind that I have backed off on CPU core to 2.8 from 3.01 ghz (stock 2.4) and also eased GPU setting back a bit(stock 600/900) Quad processor with still the 2x 8800GT cards in SLI.(can still add 3rd card for SLI)
MS Direct x 10.0 updated to latest.
Geforce Video 178.13
Ref clock 468.877MHz
FSB Freq 1875.509(QDR)
multiplier 6x
CPU Core 2813MHz
Mem Bus Freq 1406.632(ddr2)MHz
GPU Core 648MHz
GPU Mem speed 935 MHz
Would say 700/950 on GPU max before being unstable.
Actual multiplier is 9x but since I have enabled speed step and halt in set up it will show as 6x.
There are other ways to increase graphic quality/speed within the nvidia software, but dont really need this at moment.
Temps are still reasonable 45-50 when busy. Plenty of fans doing their job.
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Quantum:
Good to keep your GPU at a low temperature, apparently nvidia GPUs are far more prone to heat problems than AMD ones: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39506/135/
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