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NEW FEATURES Adobe Flash Player 11 support Enables full support of the GPU accelerated Stage 3D API and Stage 3D applications Supported on the AMD Radeon HD Series of GPUs, A-Series APU and E-Series APU RESOLVED ISSUES Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.11 software suite for Windows 7. These include: Images and textures are no longer corrupted (Blue) in Rage. Bezel compensation now works correctly with Far Cry 2. Screen tearing is no longer randomly observed while moving a window on the desktop while in Clone mode or Eyefinity mode. A black screen is no longer observed when extending displays. Homefront no longer crashes randomly when Crossfire is enabled. DC – Universe Online no longer hangs soon after selecting a character and entering the game. KNOWN ISSUES Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include: Screen tearing may be observed occasionally while playing Portal 2 in DirectX 9 mode. Shogun 2 may exhibit screen corruption while playing on low resolution settings in 2x1 Eyefinity mode. Choppy playback may be observed playing interlaced DVD content in full screen mode using PowerDVD 11. A BSOD error may occur while playing Call of Duty – Black Ops in Multiplayer mode with Crossfire enabled. Video corruption may be observed while playing World of Warcraft in windowed mode and AVI file simultaneously. Dragon Age 2 may exhibit corruption during in game cinematics when run in DirectX 9 mode. Lost Planet 2 my display random corruption and flickering when run in DirectX 9 mode. Lost Planet 2 may crash randomly when Crossfire is enabled. The following games may experience random flashing textures during gameplay : Homefront Metro 2033 Far Cry 2 Stalker : Call of Pripyat Download here Additionally, the CAP1 for 11.11 are out too. Get them here

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The Asus N55SF comes with a Nvidia GT 555m, which has already been proven to be highly overclockable by Alienware M14x users. M14x owners have already the possibility to slightly increase the voltage of their GPU by using a slightly -voltage-increase-nvidia-gt-555m-7.html#post12003"]modified VBIOS. Here's a similar mod for N55SF users. The modified VBIOS will increase the voltage of the GPU by about 0.1V which will allow you further overclock your GPU core. (Note: The graphics memory isn't affected by this mod, you won't be able to clock it higher than before) Instructions: Since the VBIOS is part of the system BIOS you need to flash the whole BIOS in order to make use of the mod. Flash the file with your preferred BIOS flashing utility, e.g. with the one provided by Asus (click here). - Only flash with the battery and AC adapter plugged in to your system After flashing I highly recommend to go to the BIOS menu and load the default settings. Then reboot and if you want reset your custom settings. Verify the increased GPU voltage by using GPU-Z or a similar GPU monitoring tool. Note: Only the voltage of the 3d performance profile gets increased, in order to see it your GPU needs to clock up to 3d clocks. Also make sure your system is free of dust and check your temps when you first use this BIOS, the voltage increase will also slightly increase the GPU load temps, but it should be well in the thermal envelope of the system. Credits: Thank goes to the following people: @Saltius for modding the VBIOS @Angelsky for testing the modded BIOS and providing pics @svl7 for locating the VBIOS file and extracting & repacking the BIOS Let me know if you have any questions or encounter some issues. Have fun overclocking your system! If you have questions, let me know! Also if you encounter any issues, please report back. As always with such mods, you are responsible for your system and changes you make. Asus N55SF BIOS [555m volt mod].zip

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Well, the cards are based on the same architecture, have about the same features and when you compare the gaming performance of a 560m @ 1080p vs. a 555m @ 900p (or even lower) you have a very similar performance. Of course it also depends on the game... It's always nice to have more cores, shaders, whatever, but as I said, when you compare GPU power vs. native solution it's about the same and it'll last about for the same time. Between this MSI with the 560m and the M14x it really comes down to what you prefer and what your needs are. I already mentioned that the M14x is more portable, has definitely the better design and also nice NBD service, and the mentioned MSI has a higher screen res, and it might be possible to exchange the GPU (as it has been done in earlier versions of this system). So to answer your question... if (and only if) the GPU of the MSI can be replaced it will last longer (provided you upgrade the GPU). However, there's also an MSI system with a 570m available... this is quite a step up from the 560m and will make a difference in performance and future proofing.

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Yeah it would make sense. Also these single high end cars are really powerful, I don't know if there is any need for dual card setups... I mean aside from running benchmarks. BTW, deadbydawn grats on your setup. It looks awesome!