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by MediaMunkey
Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:21 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!
Replies: 654
Views: 475277

Re: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!

HD5770---4.jpg HD5770---5.jpg I don't have any pictures of it in my actual computer yet. Now I've got a nice shiny new graphics card I have to upgrade the rest of my rig. :rolleyes: So it's going to be sitting in the box for a little while longer until I figure out the rest of my parts. I might hav...
by MediaMunkey
Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:13 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!
Replies: 654
Views: 475277

Re: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!

Sorry for the wait guys. Here it is finally :)
All ready to be unpacked.
All ready to be unpacked.
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The first glimpse.
The first glimpse.
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And there it is, in its nice shiny box. Notice the DiRT 2 sticker!
And there it is, in its nice shiny box. Notice the DiRT 2 sticker!
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by MediaMunkey
Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:56 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!
Replies: 654
Views: 475277

Re: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!

That was bloody quick. I've just got it…pictures to follow soon! :mrgreen:
by MediaMunkey
Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:42 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!
Replies: 654
Views: 475277

Re: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!

I'll put some pics up for you guys when I get it. Not sure when that'll be though, could be a few weeks depending on how they ship the card.
It won't be as interesting as the 5870 obviously, seeing as that has the winners design on it, but I think it'll be nice to do so anyway. :mrgreen:
by MediaMunkey
Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:44 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!
Replies: 654
Views: 475277

Re: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!

:prayer: WOW, awesome :supz: Thanks so much, really looking forward to having a nice new 5770 in my system. Damn, now I need to upgrade the rest of it, haha :lol: I would love to see my design on the actual card like the 5870 but I sure can't complain :mrgreen: Congrats to von0m8oo for winning the g...
by MediaMunkey
Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:11 pm
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: NVIDIA GF100 versus GeForce GTX 285 Video Card in Far Cry 2
Replies: 17
Views: 8573

Re: NVIDIA GF100 versus GeForce GTX 285 Video Card in Far Cry 2

Apoptosis wrote:Crysis??? Who still plays that game? That game came out Q4 2007!!
I think the point is that the graphics are still completely unsurpassed in terms of quality and GPU requirements.
Kind of sad really. Seriously, where are the better looking games? Perhaps we'll have to wait for Rage or Crysis 2.
by MediaMunkey
Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:02 am
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!
Replies: 654
Views: 475277

Re: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!

I can't get your pic to load :( Anybody else having that problem? "The connection has timed out The server at <a class="linkification-ext" href="http://www.tweak.net.nz" title="Linkification: http://www.tweak.net.nz">http://www.tweak.net.nz</a> is taking too long ...
by MediaMunkey
Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:11 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!
Replies: 654
Views: 475277

Re: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!

http://i45.tinypic.com/aob0wl.jpg http://i48.tinypic.com/2vvsuna.jpg Best viewed at (not quite) full size here . This HD 5870 is no ordinary video card. This was THE original video card, discovered years ago by (then) ATI scientists within a hidden chamber on earth. Said to be created by extraterre...
by MediaMunkey
Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:47 pm
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: NVIDIA GF100 versus GeForce GTX 285 Video Card in Far Cry 2
Replies: 17
Views: 8573

Re: NVIDIA GF100 versus GeForce GTX 285 Video Card in Far Cry 2

This is certainly encouraging, but as kenc51 mentioned we can't really take this too much as gospel considering the benchmark used and the fact it wasn't final specs. Then again, I can't imagine Nvidia would want to come out with a dud given they are already so far behind AMD at the moment. At the v...
by MediaMunkey
Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:39 pm
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: In a world where...
Replies: 11
Views: 6844

Re: In a world where...

LOL, this seemed like a spoof despite it being completely serious. A bit too serious and over-the-top.
by MediaMunkey
Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:35 pm
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: Upgrading graphics - So easy, a monkey can do it!
Replies: 11
Views: 6590

Re: Upgrading graphics - So easy, a monkey can do it!

Those monkeys know more about computers than most of the people I know.
Somehow I don't think this is going to inspire someone who doesn't know what they're doing to give it a try though.
They'll just call in their family/friend techy guy to do it for them instead. Thanks AMD.
by MediaMunkey
Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:03 am
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: Thermal Compounds
Replies: 15
Views: 7065

Re: Thermal Compounds

Surely that cant of worked i mean zinc oxide cream and vaseline at the GPU temps you normally get you would see it melting at some point and then as the compound melts away the temps will rocket up! Quite possibly, but the computer was going for months afterwards. It was a POS that kept crashing an...
by MediaMunkey
Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:45 pm
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: Thermal Compounds
Replies: 15
Views: 7065

Re: Thermal Compounds

I pulled apart my brothers GPU to clean it up and forgot I had no thermal compound......obviously I had to improvise. I used some kind of cream which had Zinc Oxide in it and vaseline. It was pretty damn dodgy, but it seemed to work alright. :mrgreen: I don't recall what the temps were but I'm prett...
by MediaMunkey
Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:25 pm
Forum: Home Theater Discussion
Topic: New Oppo BluRay player plays MKVs!
Replies: 22
Views: 30964

Re: New Oppo BluRay player plays MKVs!

That sounds like a pretty nice setup Skippman. But what codec are you talking about that you think I am talking about? The media server support certainly makes it even more tempting. I wonder if the PS3 Media Server would work with it. I know it has rudimentary Xbox support, so why not something els...
by MediaMunkey
Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:58 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Kingston SSDNow vs HDD Comparison Video
Replies: 3
Views: 3335

Re: Kingston SSDNow vs HDD Comparison Video

From what I understand it's really not a good idea to buy an SSD without TRIM support, and certainly only one with an Intel or Indilinx chip.
The others are generally old and have very poor performance, especially considering the extra cost of an SSD over an HDD.
by MediaMunkey
Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:53 pm
Forum: Home Theater Discussion
Topic: New Oppo BluRay player plays MKVs!
Replies: 22
Views: 30964

Re: New Oppo BluRay player plays MKVs!

That's definitely a sweet player. I bought the DV-981HD DVD player from Oppo for my parents place a few years back and that performs amazingly well, so I imagine this player is 10x as awesome. That Anchor Bay chip is supposedly better than the Faroudja that's in the DV-981HD and that is already extr...
by MediaMunkey
Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:33 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!
Replies: 654
Views: 475277

Re: Dec 2009 Contest - Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Art!

What a fantastic competition, and a brilliant way to get people interested and active in the site. It usually takes quite a bit to get me to sign-up with a community, (I do hang around on the outskirts often though) but I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to join in on this one. I've got a, more...