Yeh. Out of the box, some 4850s, especially earlier ones run far too hot. Like idleing at 75 celcius and loading at 95 celsius. If you go for a standard 4850 with reference cooler attached, there is a fan fix that can be applied, if it is running to hot, which can lower temperatures to more normal 50-70 celsius range. Alternative is to buy a card with a custom cooler fitted or use an aftermarket cooler like the one Im using. This is the Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev 2. This is combined with the Arctic Cooling Turbo Fan module made for the cooloer. This pulls the temps right down to like 30-50 celsius. Only thing with aftermarket cooloers is, you will probably invalidate your warranty. End of the day, the 4850 is a great card, but if I had some extra cash, I would go for the 4870. Most of these seem to have a proper dual slot cooler fitted too.
Ok, in that case can you compare those same settings to the PC that is working. Also try to connect cable to same port as the working PC on your switch or router. Check cable is 'straight thru' and not 'crossover'.
Assuming you are using XP, on the faulty PC, open network connections, select properties of the network card. In the middle list, you should have Client for MS Networks, File and Printer Sharing and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Click on Internet Protocol, then click on the button labelled Properties. Make sure that 'Obtain an IP Address Automatically' and 'Obtain a DNS address automatically' are selected. Now try it.
First thing is that your BIOS must be able to see the new drive. If you go into your BIOS and on the basic parameters section, it will list all your drives. Your new drive needs to be listed here before anything else is possible. One reason you might not see it here is if you have onboard RAID and you have connected the drive onto one of the RAID connectors. If that is the case, you need to put it onto one of the regular drive connectors. Also, is it an IDE or SATA drive. You can connect two IDE drives to a cable. The jumpers should be set both to CS or one to MA and the other one to SL. Try and use CS on both because it is less hassle. If you have SATA, there are no jumpers to set.
Yes, 100fps and 150fps. You wont notice the difference unless it dips below 60fps. Then you start to get microstuttering and once you get below 30fps full stuttering. The point is, the higher your average fps, the less chance of your minimum fps dipping below 60 fps and therefore you will get smooth gameplay. High fps is a kind of guarantee that you will get smooth gameplay throughout.....
Hello there. Yes, that is correct. You will get all the motherboard software from the Asus website. The only thing ive found problematic with downloading drivers from Asus's website is the downlaod speeds. I think they still use 56K modems.
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