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Am I Evil? wrote: »

Great to hear :pac:
I went with the non windowed Black Pearl

Looking forward to getting everything set up, I hope its quiet as I expect. I'm building the rig around it tbh, everything is as quiet as I could get it while still having the power.

Even went off and bought one of those new Corsair RM series power supplies where the fan doesn't even start up til it hits 40% load

Yeah I was aiming for a quite build as well, and with the non windowed version it should be even quieter as there is even more sound dampening foam instead of a window. With the two fans you get with the case and the heatsink fan connected to the fan controller you can make the case near silent from my experience though during gaming/more demanding work you might have to turn the fan controller up. Also have a similar cooler myself Corsair TX650m that only turns on at about 40% and makes no noise while not spinning.

Also important is to spend some time with your GPU's fan profile to optimise it for silence during normal use.

kaimera wrote: »

Anyone,,,7990HD for 375e.

Or get a 290x.

Did you mention it was second hand and used for bitcoin mining?

Na its definitely second hand one that was mentioned. Think it was used for coin mining. The OP is looking for a card to run a 1600p monitor I think


If it can be got €440 id personally go for that, with that price id rather spend a bit more and get warranty etc

EoinHef wrote: »

Throw up a pic

Sorry for taking so long, was at work.

Eh, here's two. One was taken with a camera, the other with a potato.(Neither too great in low light situations)



(Potato shot) I have to say, this picture makes it look x10 worse than it is.

Baked.noodle wrote: »

I have an LG IPS LED 24EA53 and whilst there is a small amount of inconsistent back lighting, especially in the bottom left hand corner, it's nowhere near as bad as that. The viewing angle whilst viewing a black screen aren't the best so it appears worse in the corners until you look directly into the area. I find my screen is acceptable, but I would return it if it looked any worse.

I think I will return it! I paid good money, I know it's a universal problem, but I want a product that wont bother me

This is a pic of mine. Not the same model as yours but very similar. I never really notice it unless it's a plain black background. Sometimes the bottom left corner catches my eye but doesn't bother me too much. Not enough to RMA it.

Sorry to be lashing the topic with threads, but can anyone tell me what's going on here?

McSasquatch wrote: »

If it's happening regularly, during gaming, it could be artifacting. Check your graphics card temps while gaming (download something like GPUZ) - overheating can cause a variety of visual glitches. If temps are okay, it could be more serious.

Seem to be a bit of a Bad Luck Brian with computer parts. Hopefully it was just temps!


Could this also be caused by insufficient power to the card? It's running of a Corsair CX500

raymix wrote: »

Graphical artifacts, same thing you watch for when overclocking and burning GPU.
It could be few things:
Bad overclock
Temps too high, could be thermal paste going bad.
Solder joints. GPUs sometimes don't hold temperature changes so well. I personally re-flowed 9800GX2 and 8800GT cards to fix this issue, but it was much worse.

I'd be worried if it happens in all games. Does it?

check the temps , if its an ATI card the temps are in CCC you can manual set fan speeds too.

What card is it? What CPU do you have? Is it overclocked? What are your core temps/VRM temps while gaming?

Ideally you should record your maximum temperature under a gaming load. That's an avg temp, and it doesn't look like you were gaming under it for long. Your VRM temps don't seem to be being reported, and 0.7.5 is the latest GPUz, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

Your card could be unstable at 1150mhz (I know that that's an out of the box overclock and it should of course be stable, but it's a high out of the box overclock).

Additionally, your PSU might not be cutting it, but with a (stock?) i5 Haswe it really should be fine.

* I see your proper chart now, the 70 degree one. That's a normal max temp.

I'm not sure how accurate the 12v sensor is, but my own PSU is much closer to 12v. From idle to load it gets closer to 12v, and this makes sense because instead of ~10% load at idle I am applying maybe 50% load when gaming (650watt PSU, 7950 and i7). So I am inclined to think that the 12v numbers mean something.

That being said, I'm only spitballing.

Downloaded the latest drivers(thought I installed them) going to give them a whirl now. So far it's just been BF4, then again I don't really have anything overly demanding to test to show otherwise. Thanks for all the help lads!

Last thing and I swear I'll stop pestering you all :P

Is this normal for Catalyst?