Maybe GTA X will need the 16 core one.

And yeah I noticed the reduced activity too.

And about the sticky part, isn't the General Discussion link already there below the banner?

ok this is my definite last post then...

what were including in the guide are:

XP specific tweaks
Vista specific tweaks
Windows 7 specific tweaks
Generic tweaks (for all OS'es)
Registry tweaks (not sure if this is a seperate section or included with the OS'es)
Internet tweaks
BIOS tweaks (where overclocking will be)


and some more of which i forgot.

quote hiigaran

damn, took me a while to find this thread. slayer, any chance of making the next thread a sticky? speaking of which i think weve only got a few more pages.

anyway, has anyone noticed that this forum has declined in activity a little? or is it just me? either way, anyone got an idea of how to increase activity?

Theres a link in the header for this thread .
When this one reaches 30 pages, I'll make the next GD a General Discussion and Introductions thread.

if anything, its gone up in activity. I remember about 6 months ago this forum was hovering around 30ppd. Last week it was at 80ppd. Its dropped down slightly to 60ppd right now.

quote Saransh Comsole

Well, I thought of one thing to incease the PPD for this forum. And I talked about it to The Slayer:-

THE OVERCLOCKING HELP THREAD

How about it?

The Slayer can make it a sticky maybe.

Crap, I forgot all about that. The only problem with that is people rarely come in here asking for over clocking advice. Now I think it would just be easier to read individual help threads on it, rather than have a few people trying to get help at once in the same thread.

but it isn't repectable at all not to have an overclocking thread in the General Computer Hardware & Overclocking forum.

You can make a guide for doing basic over clocking if you want though. I just think it would be easier to have separate threads for over clocking help rather than confining it all into one thread.

Sorry

I got a question, what is the real difference between crossfire, and just using a motherboard that supports multiple gpu's. (I believe it is called a dualslot.)

Crossfire (like SLI) is pretty much connecting 2 or more video cards together on a motherboard and having them run together. A motherboard that has more than one PCIe X16 port (to support multiple GPU's) just lets you use crossfire or SLI.

Oh, so you need multiple gpu slots in order to use crossfire?

Yes, Crossfire requires you to have 2 video cards, and to run 2 video cards you need 2 or more PCIe x16 ports on your motherboard.

quote The Slayer

Yes, Crossfire requires you to have 2 video cards, and to run 2 video cards you need 2 or more PCIe x16 ports on your motherboard.

There's also hybrid crossfire too. Which uses an onboard 3*** and up gpu and a single dedicated pci-e gpu.

I have 3300 onboards graphics and a 4870 dedicated GPU.. could I use Hybrid Crossfire?

I doubt it if you can.

quote ParanahJoe

quote The Slayer

Yes, Crossfire requires you to have 2 video cards, and to run 2 video cards you need 2 or more PCIe x16 ports on your motherboard.

There's also hybrid crossfire too. Which uses an onboard 3*** and up gpu and a single dedicated pci-e gpu.

IF this is true, then you obviously can.

quote aspect of bane

I have 3300 onboards graphics and a 4870 dedicated GPU.. could I use Hybrid Crossfire?

Only if all three components support it. It would say right in your mobo manual if the onboard gpu will do it. Then I would have to say the 4870 would be stupid if it didnt.

why use crossfire when you already have a 4870?