Butthurted people over at the Nexus forums jabbed me in the back with their big banhammer, maybe their ePeen is now bigger, but anyway, my advice, in general, is to avoid that place like plague itself, if you hate seeing people rulling over you like Hitler and locking your stuff up without even the smallest amount of concrete and undeniable damn proof. To hell with your network, Robin. I prefer nowdays uploading my stuff to Moddb or Mediafire, where people are not biased towards reports like your site staff is.

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Well, since I'm still gathering money for my planned LGA 2011 socket entry, I'm still using my old and 'reliable' LGA 775. I never had problems with my build (yes, it's a custom build and it's no OEM shit that they sell you at an ESM) but when my old VGA died, a Sapphire VaporX 2GB 5870, I pointed towards an Asus.

The card that I'm talking about is the ASUS DirectCU II 6950 1GB (since I can't afford losing three slots and dumping my Creative SC). The card is absolutely gorgeous to see and to hear, it is very silent and cool. Under stress it rarely reaches 60°C, and keeps around 51/55°C. (Even in Crysis)

Tested with Furmark under full stress and the temperature goes up to 64°C and stays there. (and it's full stress at 1920x1080 with EQ filters).

But...
there's always something that makes me swear.
For fuck's sake.
AMD's drivers suck balls hard. I keep getting BSODs (BCCode 116 - related to VGA drivers), I tried almost all versions, and still nothing.

I paid 230€ for this card (and in the future I consider going xfire with it) and I can't use it?
What the fuck.

My patience is growing thin.
Let's hope that I can do something before Easter or I'll just start smashing with a hammer.

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