You really don't, and I think its most effective if you have voice communication. If you can keep the tank moving all the time while you are firing off guided shells its so damn devastating.

Ffuuuuuuu-

I cant play BF3 on my lappytop and Im stuck with it at home. 2.5 weeks without BF3 is making BOBO GO CRAZY.

Ouch, that sucks!

There's a big patch out today which unfortunately for me really reduces the power of the IR scope. :( :rofl2:

Oh... here's my current work in progress:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q...0/IMG_0044.JPG

The new board is in. Cable management is a lot better than it was before but can still be improved.

I have some cooling mods coming down the pipeline. A real CPU cooler and a bunch of case fans to be installed in the coming weeks... and some shorter SATA cables to tidy things up a bit.

oh my lord...that is a thing of beauty...

Having all sorts of issues with it right now, though. Lots of crashes with Crossfire so far.

I am going to switch back to the standard 6950 bios (1408 shaders instead of the unlocked 1536) and see if it runs any smoother that way.

Steve, what the "F" is that?? WOW!

Ya Steve I think switching back to 6850 specs should do the trick. But dang that is some impressive hardware.

I just hope I sort it out because it was not a cheap upgrade. I will get back to working on it on Thursday. I am hoping it's just cooling issues since I can solve that easily.

In case anyone has any pointers...

Regardless of whether the cards are set to their locked 1408 shaders or unlocked 1536 I get total lockups after some gameplay. It might take 5 minutes it might take 50, but at some point the screen completely freezes (or goes dark) and the PC stays running. But it requires a hard reset to actually do anything.

I disabled Crossfire and tried it on a single card and had it crash on me after about 15 minutes or so.

I guess I need to do some more temperature testing to see how hot the cards or CPU are getting. Probably a good idea to make sure my BIOS is up to date as well. If it's not temperature related I think it might be the ATI drivers... in which case I get to play around with testing previous versions. Fun.

i used to get the same thing. i posted a few pages back on how i fixed it. it has something to do with onboard sound card and the game. you got a new mobo right? are you using the onboard sound card on that? if you are than im 99% sure that's the problem. i fixed mine by buying a new one and turning the onboard audio off completely. never crash anymore. but when i took the new sound card out and used the onboard it kept crashing and freezing.

I remember it now that you bring it up. I'll make a note to test the audio before I do anything else. I wonder if it's a driver issue?

I don't have a spare sound card laying around so I'll have to play deaf during testing.

yeah try it out im pretty sure the sound card is the problem. but i dont think its a driver issue. ive updated my drivers so many times and it never helped. what kind of mobo are you using? is it gigabyte?

I was using a gigabyte and never had issues with the sound. I have an MSI P55-GD80 now.

Are you adjusting voltages as you OC the card?

I had to take my 570GTX up to 1.68 volts (from 1.13) when I OC'ed it..otherwise it was crashing out of BF3 constantly.

Cards are all at stock clocks on stock voltages.