Can go for 5 months on 4.1 ghz. Unstable and I can't seem to restable. Now I'm forced to bump it down to 3.83 ghz which is fail, 5 less fps for me.

Anyways word of advice for those going into the 775 market.

Don't buy a board with nforce, sure you might get sli but overclocking is crap. Expect tons of unstable tests and higher voltages than PQ boards.

GG

Woot. I love how games for windows live has encrypted all of our GTA4 saves and makes them non transferable to another operating system/new install.

I have 100mb of GTA4 saves that are useless because I killed my old operating system, now I have to start all over again. Wonderful.

I'm gonna take a good guess. 6 months to 1 year from now, Drift City will be dead and all ijji DC accounts will be forwarded to the new service provider.

Switched back to XP. Got XP 64 bit and reverted back, for one reason... the sound. It really is a shame I'm missing out on the bollocks that is DX10, but sound is more important to me atm. Looks like I'll be using DX10 XP hacks and game hacks to get XP running these effects.

Seriously... if you want 3D sound, that sounds crisp and clear. Stay with XP. Directsound3D has been nuked in vista, it's a fucking joke.

What a joke. Anyone that looks at this application in task manager can clearly see that it runs in 32bit.

False advertising FTL. Rockstar clearly screwed this one up.

(for those who dont understand, 64 bit = performance and more options to expand resource usage)

So I've been reading up on the open source project that was supposed to bring DirectX 10 to windows XP. Its been canned. So has the one that was going to charge for their software, the source files left open to the public and only 2 games supported for it. Apparently it can't be done legally, and going the legal way I doubt anyone else will be able to take that source and make use of it.

So Vista has pushed DirectX 10 upon us while segregating millions. To be honest, some DirectX10 games look pretty good, but then again they can look 95% the same without DX10 even enabled, just a falsity imposed upon us. If you don't believe me, check out the Crysis Ultra quality edits that bring near DX10 quality on DX9.

With further games imposing false limits on DX9 so users will jump the DX10 bandwagon. It's only a matter of time before Vista and Seven become completely dominant. Both of these operating systems each have major flaws that never exsisted in XP, and it is quite a shame to be forced into using buggy software.

I'll make this as short as I can.

It's been known for a while that Vista does not have the Hardware Abstract Layer AKA HAL for directsound 3d purposes whilst XP does.

What does this mean? Well it means your old sound card that one supported directsound and EAX has now become obsolete and you will be required to buy a $160-250 soundcard to play games that are coming out. The bastards at microsoft and creative are trying to kill off EAX and directsound, leaving soundcards that previously supported these out in the dust.

Now if you were one of those people who purchased a mega pricey sound card back a year ago, even two. You might have a chance that your card supports OpenAL, the new sound format that MS and Creative are pushing. If not, you will be enjoying the crisp sound of OpenAL in software mode, AKA stereo. What FUN!!! Basically OpenAL is killing off EAX and making it legacy, this should not be happening period.

So here I am, using vista and a good sound card. Forced to use drivers that attempt to "emulate" directsound3d in hardware mode and enjoy all of the distorted sound, crashing games and incompatibilites of this.

Thanks microshaft. You guys are fucking leet.

GFWL is crap.