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Roccat...all nice stuff, good software...very happy with my ryos mk and kone xtd.

Check out antennaweb.org ....when I cut the cord that website helped me figure out what I needed and what I could expect to get out of it. I tried at first with just the antenna but then discovered I needed an amplifier, then powered distribution something-or-other - ended up getting everything they recommended by the time I was done but luckily it was all fairly inexpensive. Winegard is a good brand I think. SiliconDust makes network tunners that work great and are easy to setup, lets you watch tv on any pc on your network. My personal dvr rig is an old core2duo pc with two haupauge? dual hd tunner cards and it has no issues recording or hosting the files to watch on other computers. I use Windows Media Center, nothing complicated or expensive needed in that dept either. If I was starting from scratch I would probably just go with 2-3 SiliconDust boxes instead of the internal cards. For the last few years I just type what I want to watch in google and it's usually faster than pulling it up locally...it's just too easy and my antenna has yet to pick up any premium channels so......

Downloading Titanfall last night I was getting .1-.2Mb/s....I decided to tether my pc to my phone since I had set it up recently. I tried this once before when I first set it up and my DSL got .9 and Verizon was hitting 1.1; last night it was at 19+Mb/s, couldn't believe it since I live in a somewhat rural area (DSL is my only hardline option) and my signal is usually low on my phone. Since this discovery and the fact my Verizon plan is unlimited (grandfathered plan) I would like to set it to where when I plug in my wireless usb dongle it starts using the internet through it while I remain connected to my local network for sharing, printers, ect...right now if I don't disable my wired network adapter it seems to ignore it and use the slower dsl connection instead. Is this possible and not too difficult to setup? I've searched but all the terms I'm using seem to generic and I'm not getting any relevant results...

I've tried five 290s - they all hit the ceiling somewhere between 1100-1150. They all ran fine at 1100...they all artifact and eventually crash at 1150 - these are three reference cards and two non-reference. I find they only run at 95C to keep the fan from making too much noise, the first few days running stock settings and hitting 95C every time under load, the fan never hit 40% and stayed reasonably quiet. Altering the fan curve in MSI afterburner yeilds temps just over 80C and fans run at 50-60% under load, occasionally drifting to 70% after prolonged use. It's louder but I never notice it over the games. I find the biggest difference between reference and non-reference is the noise level under load, at 100% the non-reference coolers sound like a reference card around 60%. If you don't mind the loud blower on the reference cards, using the same fan curve the temp is only a few degrees different.

I just got a setup working with a ref and non-ref 290s and I am amazed at how quiet and cool it runs compared to the single reference 290. The reference card is the secondary so it runs cooler and quiet now, so far running BF4 I'm at 83C on the non-reference primary, fan 80% max; 49C on the reference secondary, fan 40% max..... clocked at 1100/1300 and no throttling under load; 1080 mostly ultra settings with 4x AA plus 125% scaling.

Crossfire performance went out the window with the beta driver, it's hardly using the second gpu.

After enough swapping around it started working...

Both cards are working. I got Windows to recognize both of them, problem was the usb connector holding up the card from fully seating. Figured that out and now they are both showing up but I've come across a new problem to me: catalyst shows the second adapter as disabled. Windows shows them enabled with no hardware conflicts...any ideas on that one? UPDATE: Booted into Windows 7 instead and it recognized the 2nd 290 but catalyst has it disabled there as well. I noticed in the hardware information tab it had the primary card running in 4x and the second card at only 2x (confirmed the same situation in windows 8 as well) - according to the manual they should both be 16x using slots 1 & 3...

I have two XFX R9 290s I'm trying to run in crossfire but Windows 8 will only detect one. One is reference and the other is the double dissipation version, I'm running them in a crosshair mobo with 1000w psu. All my experience with crossfire has been relatively good up until this point, I've never had only one card show up, just the normal driver issues. Swapping the cards around in the slots didn't work, what else could it be?

Didn't even think of that...focused too hard on the drivers I guess. Good news is I got it working. I deleted all the amd files I downloaded, downloaded again to try something different, uninstalled and reinstalled and it worked. I don't understand it but I came across the situation before with a cnc machine where if you updated the software and kept the previous version on the machine and didn't delete it...somehow the old version would keep running until it was wiped out.

Here the situation: got a little excited to see what difference the mantel patch would make on bf4 yesterday and I can't remember what site it was but in the article about the patch it said be sure to download the latest beta drivers for it to work, the were nice enough to include a link...I click the link, takes me to the latest beta drivers page at amd and I download the available drivers without paying attention. Didn't realize the drivers I needed aren't available and the ones I downloaded and installed were the old version. Installed and I get the message from bf4 I'm running the 3.11 drivers; game loads and I can't click or do anything...had to alt-tab/alt-f4 to get out. I've lost count of how many times I've tried to update the AMD drivers...uninstalling and manually removing all ATI and AMD folders and registry entries that I could find is the last thing I tried before installing the new drivers but after every attempted fix the drivers are still stuck at 3.11. My question: what should I try next?

I would go with the 9370 instead of the 8350 if the prices are within a few dollars; or save a few bucks and get the 8320 which at <$150 is the best value.

I'm not that familiar with nvidia's software - but for AMD catalyst...when you setup up and eyefinity group it makes it so all there monitor are recognized by windows as a single monitor, so I can't maximize a window to take up a single monitor when in use, only the entire group. Maybe this is where the problem is, but I can't find any other way to enable all three monitors. How does nvidia's software work, does it sound similar?

I've posted multiple messages in the BF4 forum with no responses so I guess I'll ask my question here: how do you properly set up three monitors with this game? I can get it to play by creating AMD eyefinity group, but is that the only way? The only problem I have with this method is that the hud and minimap are on monitors 1 and 3 - almost every instance I can remember seeing BF4 on 3 monitors they have always been on monitor 2....sooo, I dunno, having trouble figuring this one out on my own.

Thanks, but I wanted to clarify, this is all stuff I have, not going out to buy. I have two other 290 at my disposal, I was about to go all crazy high rez and double or triple them but decided to put off some serious monitor upgrades until something a little more appealing to me is available. So I'm sticking with 1080p for the time being and just figuring out what works best. FYI about the 83xx/9xxx all being the same - my 8320 gets to 4.1 without any voltage adjustments and my 8350 can't go to 4.1 without extra juice and runs noticeably hotter; the 9590 only runs a few degrees hotter than 8350 at the clock speeds I gave - not the results I would have guessed. I plan on hooking up a 3hp 110v blower to my H110 to see just what the 9590 can do; admittedly I'm far from an expert or very patient sometimes so I'm going to give it a month or two before I potentially burn it up with that experiment.