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Maximum PC Member Since: August 7, 2008
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ReviewsMulti-monitor Crossfire on
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2

Posted 03/19/2009 at 02:37:56pm

I believe you can only run one monitor in Crossfire.

ReviewsTrue Kickass on
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2

Posted 03/19/2009 at 01:48:33pm

Having run exclusively Nvidia cards for the last few years (my last Radeon was a 9700), and stepping up from a pair of 8800's in SLI, I totally agree with the reviewer with regards to the 4850 x2's performance. I have had this card for 2 weeks now, and installed it using the Catalyst 9.2 drivers, which went off without a hitch. I must say that ATI's drivers have MUCH improved over the years, and the Catalyst Control Center's interface is a joy to work with (I could never get Nvidia's nTune or System Tools to properly run an overclocking profile).

The 4850 x2 overclocks nicely, and has a nice system of creating desktop icons to run overclocking profiles. I used to dread Catalyst drivers, but I have no problems yet running Crysis, Fallout 3 or Mass Effect with very high details enabled.

This card is worth every penny!

Rig:

Phenom II 940

ASUS M3A78-T mobo

8G OCZ Reaper memory

2 WD Velociraptors in RAID 1

Creative X-Fi Titanium

Logitech Z-5500 speakers

Lite On 22x DVD/CD burner w/Lightscribe

HEC Zephyr 650 W PSU

Vista Home Premium 64

NewsChrome's the One! on
Google's Chrome Ready to Come Out of Beta

Posted 12/10/2008 at 07:33:59pm

I've been running Chrome since day one, and have been impressed by it's stability and speed. I am a little concerned as it still doesn't render some pages correctly (check out the Social Security Disability Web pages, for instance). Is it really ready to emerge from Beta??

Once Google gets the add-on's going, Chrome will be the browser to beat!

NewsBest Buy is Better... on
Circuit City Gets $1.1 Billion to Claw Its Way Back

Posted 11/12/2008 at 07:18:12pm

...but Newegg FTW!!!

NewsEarly Vista Adopter on
Microsoft Gives XP Owners First Look at Mojave

Posted 08/07/2008 at 10:22:44am

I installed Vista on my main PC the second day of release so that I would be able to provide support to customers who had Vista machines (I have a small side business providing PC support, upgrades, etc). The only installed program I had a problem with was Microsoft Outlook (!?), and putting it into XP compatibility mode solved the problem.

I am a power user and a gamer, and I realize early benchmarks showed a lot of games ran slower (marginally) in Vista as opposed to XP, but truth is, to the normal human eye, there was no real noticable difference.

I agree with a lot of posters that the real problem was that a lot of companies were slow in providing drivers for Vista.

I also realize that a lot of originally promised Vista features were never delivered in the final shipped version (revolutionary new file system to name one), but Vista certainly is not a crap OS.

I loved XP. It was (is) a stable, ground-breaking OS, far superior to the crapware called Windows ME, but Vista is even more stable, more secure, and has far more features than XP.

It's amazing how unfounded rumors and publicity can spread...

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