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LynxFlexo — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:59:10 +0800

Solved [CLOSED]

LynxFlexo — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:39:30 +0800

Hello lyn members,

Today I got my Need For Speed Most 2012 that I recently ordered from my friend (Oversea).

I've installed the game in my secondary PC and the run perfectly.
However, I spotted some lags whenever I drive to a place which has many buildings and stuffs.

Otherwise, the game runs very good.
I played on 1600 x 900p resolution and set everything on high-setting with v-sync turned on to prevent flicker problems.

May I know which of these components causes the minor lags?
Please assist me on upgrades

PC Specs :
Intel Pentium G850 + Hyper 212 EVO Turbo Edition (Arctic Cooling F12 x 2 in push-pull configurations)
Asus P8Z77-V LX
Gskill 8GB DDR3-1333Mhz (Dual-Channel)
Sapphire HD7770 Ghz Edition Vapor-X
Intel 520 480GB SSD - Boot drive and application installer -
Gigabyte Powerrock 500W

AMD GPU driver : AMD Catalyst 12.11
Operating System : Microsoft Windows 8 Pro X64

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LynxFlexo — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:18:02 +0800

[WTB] Graphic Card <RM500

LynxFlexo — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:34:33 +0800

Item(s): Buying a graphic card below RM500

Requirements as below :

1GB memory buffer
DDR5 memory type
256-Bit BUS Interface
PCI-Express 2.1

Package includes: Full set would be good.

Price: <RM500

Warranty: The more, the better.

Dealing method: COD

Location of seller: PJ

Contact method/details: PM

Age of item: The newer, the better.

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Item(s) conditions: Must be in good condition.

Picture: Show me

Problem with choosing a GPU

LynxFlexo — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:33:13 +0800

Hello folks,

I'm currently having a single Sapphire HD7770 Vapor-X Ghz Edition OC running in my secondary PC.
I'm very happy with it because it could run nowadays games very smoothly at 1080p monitor.

Now, which is better between these configurations?

Run a single HD7770 Vapor-X Ghz Edition OC vs Crossfire lower-end card or SLI such as GTX250 ?

Which will run better? Don't mind about power-supply.

[WTS] Sapphire HD7770 Ghz & Overclock Edition

LynxFlexo — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:23:39 +0800

Item(s): Sapphire HD7770 Ghz Edition (Overclock Edition)

Product's basic details :

Memory buffer size : 1GB (1024MB)
Memory buffer speed : DDR5
Bandwidth : 80GB/s
Core Speed : 1150Mhz
Memory Speed : 1250Mhz

Pixel Fillrate : 18.6 GPixel/s
Texture Fillrate : 46.0 GTexel/s
Shader Units : 640 Shader Processors
ROPs counts : 16#

- Fully supports Microsoft Directx 11.1
- Fully supports Shader Model 5.0
- Fully support OpenGL 4.2
- Fully supports PCI-Express 3.0 BUS interface
- Fully supports DirectCompute 5.0
- Fully supports OpenCL

Product's highlights :

The All New GCN™ 28nm Architecture

This product is armed with AMD GCN™ which includes brand new technologies to improve image qualities and performances.

- Improved performance
- Partially Resident Textures (PRT)
- Improved Anisotropic Filtering (AF)
- Improved DirectX® 11 Tessellation

Package includes: Full set as retail. Cables, Driver CD and other packaging are remain untouched

Price: RM400 +/- *New price is RM460 for this particular model*

Warranty: Left 1 year and 10 months from Sapphire.

Dealing method: Strictly COD.

Location of seller: PJ

Contact method/details: PM

Age of item: Less than 2 months.

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Item(s) conditions: Still shinning as brand new. Buying just to test AMD GCN Architecture.

Picture: See below.

Reason for sale: Testing Nvidia new GTX6-series.

Overclocking a GPU

LynxFlexo — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:43:07 +0800

Hello overclockers,

I'm curious about overclocking a graphic card. I know, it ain't that easy and very sensitive unlike oveclocking a processor.
I have plenty Sapphire HD7700 Ghz Edition OC in my hands and I'm decided to see how far will a overclocked HD7770 go in gaming.

Recently, I overclocked one of my HD7770 to these :

Core Clock : 1150Mhz -> 1175Mhz
Memory Clock : 1250 -> 1375Mhz

With these settings, I gained extra 16GB in memory bandwidth and 7 GTexels of Texture which is pretty awesome.

Temperature is very good, around 34-35c during idle (Browsing and musics) and never surpassed 68c during heavy gaming.

The question is, will it decrease my graphic card lifetime? Even with this low temperature? I din't change any voltage such as the vcore.
So means, I'm on the save range of overclocking.

Intro me the best shop to repair a blackberry

LynxFlexo — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:05:23 +0800

Hello,

My mum's blackberry torch 9800's sim card tray is faulty. The phone is currently unable to detect any sim card at all.

So here, can you guys intro me the best place for me to send my mum's phone for service?
How much will it cost to repair this kind of problem? The sim card tray isn't that expensive but paying them to fix it is a mess

Around PJ area only.. Thanks.

Stuck during idle

LynxFlexo — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:10:55 +0800

Hello sifus and technicians.

I'm having a new problem with my PC. Which is, it will stuck all of sudden while idle.
It means that the PC will unusable after 20-30 minutes of idle state.

Processor fan and 4 chassis fans are spinning still but two HD7870's fans (2x4 fans) and that's normal. Because AMD claim that the fan will automatically stop during idle to save power.
Temperatures are very good.

Processor : 34-38c (idle)
GPU : 35-37c (idle)

Keyboard, mouse and buttons are unusable at the time the PC stuck.
I don't know what to do now, just hoping you could help me

The only thing to stop this problem is to restart the PC or force it to shut-down.. The PC is less than 2 months old.

Can't control fan speed through BIOS

LynxFlexo — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:17:55 +0800

Hi everyone,

Yesterday I bought one unit of Xigamtek XAF F1253 from Idealtech to fit together with my Hyper 212+ evo turbo edition.
It fits nicely but there's a problem with this fan's speed.

I can't control this fan speed through BIOS and I don't want to use 3rd party software such as Speedfan.
I've already connect the fan 3-pin socket in CPU fan pins located on the board.

I've already set its speed to 50% which is supposed to be around 900RPM-950RPM +/- 10% over 1800RPM but the fan simply ignore those settings and spinning at 1800RPM..

For Cooler Master fans (Originally comes with Hyper 212+) will also run it maximum speed after my PC woke up from sleep.
After my PC woke up from sleep, the PC running much much nosier because two cooler master also run at its maximum speed

What is the culprit? any help?

How to extand volume of a partition ?

LynxFlexo — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:27:35 +0800

Hello guys,

Recently, I installed Windows 8 Consume Preview on my recently created partition on my HDD.

Windows 8 works smoothly but I'm having hard times to solve my problem. I can't seems to add volume on Windows 8's disk partition

I've already made a new partition which you can see from picture below, but the problem is, I couldn't click "Extend Volume" on Windows 8's partition but works on Windows 7's partition

Can someone here help me step by step? I Googled but nothing helps

Upgrading my PC

LynxFlexo — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:19:12 +0800

Hi lyners

I'm currently finding an upgrade for my second PC.
But I'm not sure what to upgrade..

Is it worth to upgrade to Intel Core i3 processors?
Some review says that G870 processors can deliver the performance of Intel Core i3 2100 in gaming but not in multi-tasking tasks. Thanks to hyper-trading technology from Intel.

The specifications as below :

Intel Pentium G870 3.1Ghz Sandy Bridge
Asus P8Z77-V LX 1155 Motherboard
Gskill 8GB DDR3-1333Mhz Dual-Channel
Sapphire HD7770 Vapor-X Overclock 1GB DDR5
Intel 520 240GB SSD S-ATA 3.0
Western Digital WD500AAKS 500GB

So, should I upgrade to Intel Core i3 processors?
This PC mainly to watch full hd movies and some games.

Fraps - Problem Initializing DirectX 9

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

Fraps - Problem Initializing DirectX 9

LynxFlexo — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:35:30 +0800

Hi technicians.

I am currently facing a problem with Fraps software.
Fraps keep showing me "There was a problem initializing directx9. Please ensure your video drivers are up to date and you have the latest version of directx installed."

But the thing is, I've already installed AMD Catalyst 12.8 and Microsoft DirectX 11.1 (Updated through Directx runtime)

How to solve this?

Problem with newly bought GPU

LynxFlexo — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:36:38 +0800

Hi,
First of all, I'm a newbie here. So please guide if I did anything wrong.

I'm curious with my graphic card (Sapphire HD7870 Flex Dual-x).
Whenever game shows the in-game videos, my LCD shows something like spiky-lines. I don't know/not sure how to explain

I could run old game such as Team Fortress 2 much smoother with my HD4770 compared to my HD7870 Flex
HD4770 is a very low-end GPU compared to HD7870

But, FRAPS software is showing higher frame per second with HD7870 Flex in any games, and HD4770 never surpassed HD7870 Flex frame per second in any game.

Is there any problem with my HD7870 Flex?

[WTS] AMD Superior HD4770 (Singapore Set)

LynxFlexo — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:52:34 +0800

Item(s): AMD HD4770 512MB DDR5

Awards received :

Product's link : http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/p...1&pid=251&lid=1
Product's Review : http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_hd4770/

Product's basic details :

Manufacturing Process : 40 Nanometer
GPU Clock : 750Mhz
Memory Clock : 800Mhz (3200Mhz Effective) (DDR5 - Fast response performance w/ low latency )
Stream Processors : 640

Additional information : HD4770 obtained 7.2 in both Aero Graphics and Gaming Graphics in Windows 7's Windows Index Rating

Introducing to AMD Radeon HD4770 :

"The new SAPPHIRE HD 4770 is the first card in its class to use GDDR5 memory and is based on the first ever GPU built in 40nm process technology. It uses the powerful graphics architectures from the AMD division of AMD, incorporating multi-purpose stream processing units and improved memory management architecture" - Sapphire

"Our benchmarks have shown the Radeon HD 4770 to be a surprisingly capable performer, laying down benchmark results that were on the high side of expectation. It's run with a press-driver rather than Catalyst 9.4 final, but performance is consistent enough to beat out Radeon HD 4830 and match HD 4850. It's also faster than the GeForce 9800 GT, by a significant amount in some cases, and doesn't lose a single benchmark to it !" - Hexus Review

"What you get with the HD 4770 from ATI and Sapphire is a card that fits its niche perfectly. With the economy the way it is and people reluctant to spend big dollars on a video card upgrade, the $100 price point is where the money is going to be made. Coming in at least $30 less than the 9800GTX+ and only $20 less than the HD 4850, you have to wonder if this card will take over the slot the HD 4850 currently holds. As well as the HD 4770 performs against the GTS 250 and 9800GTX+, it offers excellent performance for your dollar. The HD 4770 was playable in almost all the benchmarks up to 1920x1200. Crysis Warhead with AA on is just too much for video cards in this performance range. The performance is not stellar, but is playable. By reducing the visual quality settings slightly, the HD 4770 should handle just about any game in the 1680x1050 to 1920x1200 range. Overclocking the HD 4770 was a little disappointing in a way. The HD 4770 is not yet supported in any of the commonly used overclocking utilities, so the limits imposed in the Catalyst Control Center seem uncommonly low at 830MHz for the R740 core and 850MHz on the GDDR5 memory. The Qimonda memory is rated to perform at 1000MHz, so you are left feeling there is more, much more, left on the table. Reaching the limits was as easy as pegging the sliders to the max and applying the clock change. Kind of less than dramatic!

The cooling solution is far from what you normally see with a reference card; the use of a dual-slot solution instead of the single slot used in the HD 4850, HD 4830 and HD 4670. This is a welcome sight since subpar cooling and excruciating noise were a fact of life when and if you could adjust the fan speed. The cooling solution on the HD 4770 looks much like an Intel CPU heatsink and does an admirable job in dissipating the heat generated by the 40nm core. When overclocked, I measured load temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius when the fan was run at 100% and 60 degrees when the drivers were in charge of the show. Even at 60C I did not see any performance issues due to heat. With an open design like this though, there is one drawback when used in a less than optimally vented case; most of the heat generated will be discharged into the case, driving up component temperatures. The upside here is that the fan noise, while audible, is not what I would call incredibly loud. It was audible over my Scythe Kaze fans, but the pitch was not such that it was out of the norm driving me nuts.

As the first 40nm card delivered, the HD 4770 delivers respectable performance above that of the HD 4670 and almost equal to that of the 9800GTX+, depending on the game being played. At $100 or less, there is nothing that competes in this price point that can deliver the performance that the HD 4770 delivers. Once the overclocking tools are available to support clock speeds above 830/850, this card should fly." - Overclockers Club Team

Gaming Performances (Images taken from Techpowerup)

HD4770 can easily beat its elder brother HD4830 and delivers HD4850's gaming performance in some games and can even beat HD4850 in some games
HD4700 obviously slash 9800GT,9800GTX,GTS250 1GB, GTX260 and HD4870's asses in some games in smaller resolution (1280x720p)

HD4890>HD4870>HD4850>HD4770>HD4830>9800GTX>9800GT>9600GT

Team Fortress 2

Crysis

Call of Juarez

Far Cry 2

Package includes: Graphic Processing Unit + Specialized anti-static plastic + 6-pin external power cable

Price: RM170

Warranty: One week of personal warranty will be given.

Warranty will be politely ignored if buyer overclocked the GPU, physical damaged, water damaged, drop damaged, unauthorized modifications, lighting and any other natural damaged.

Dealing method: Strictly COD - Postage service is currently unavailable -

Location of seller: PJ

Contact method/details: Personal Message

Age of item: Should be 2 years +

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Item(s) conditions: Still shinny and working as it should. Dust will be removed.

Picture: Sorry for low-quality images, images taken by HTC Wildfire S

Reason for sale: The graphic card has been replaced by HD7870 Flex

Processor Cooler Placing

LynxFlexo — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:16:25 +0800

Hello,

I'm having headache thinking which one is actually better between two processor cooler placing.
I'm using Cooler Master TPC 812XS

I couldn't choose which one is better, to put it horizontal or Vertical
My chassis has no fan as an intake in the front (Completely plain without any fans) but my chassis has two 120mm fan slot, which is haven't mounted with any fans.
Well, I didn't plan to put so because I want my PC to run completely silent without any unwanted noise.

So back to the point, which is better? Top of the chassis has many holes for ventilation, but front don't have any ventilation.

One more thing, if I put it vertically, will the hot air (pushes by TPC 812SX's fans) affect my graphic card temperature in any situations?
Sadly, my graphic card located very near to my processor cooler

So, any helps? Thanks

Noisy Hardisk During Loading Files

LynxFlexo — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:26 +0800

Goodnight/morning,

Is it normal if a new hardisk produces noise such as disk being scratch (Something like that.. I had no idea how to translate to words form)

The hardisk is still new, not even 1 month aged. My friend having the exact hardisk with me but she's hardisk working super silent w/o any unwanted noises

Is there any thing I could do to remove that noise?