Dear Sir, Please be aware that the VGA card's warranty will be invalid if you replace VGA cooler by yourself. Palit uses own designed VGA cooler and do not certify other brands DIY cooler. Therefore, we can not assure if the specific cooler is compatible or not. Thanks for your understanding in adv...

I'm very sorry to hear this. FC's posts were always very informative and I especially enjoyed his fan tests.

On my P35-ds3p board, fan control settings are under the PC Health Status menu, NOT the M.I.T. menu.

The two options are smart fan control method and smart fan control mode

Hi! I have never removed heatsinks from the motherboard before and I have no idea whether it would help, but if you do, I don't think AS5 will be sufficient to keep the heatsinks from falling off after you remount them. You probably need to use some sort of thermal adhesive like arctic alumina or ar...

If you don't already own the sound card, I'd try the motherboard's on board sound before buying one. They have gotten pretty good.

Hmm that's about all I have to say

At we have tons of servers. One is for documents. There is a folder for each acronym, with many sub folders and files at many different levels below it. One massive hierarchy. My question is - I would like to put all the file and folder names into an Excel spreadsheet. What would really be great is...

I agree I intended to go with the turbo module as well, but the temps were so much lower than stock even without a fan directly on it that I didn't bother, so I think any single fan directly on the heat sink should be fine. I did put a nexus 92mm into the bottom intake area of my solo as a compromise.

Yeah, most of these 3870s are actually the same thing. There are a few with custom coolers that you might want to look at; I keep hearing rumors of passive 3870s coming out as well. What are you planning to do with the third slipstream? You should need at most one fanmate, since the board will give ...

Oops, I must have turned off the subscription for this thread by mistake, since I never got notified that it was being responded to. I did find sort of a resolution for this issue, but it was no good for me: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=2087030 In short, the problem...

I'm glad it worked out! I'll have to remember that the motherboard can cause something like that. there's still too much randomness in computer building, I guess.

I think people might be excited to know that you have an accelero you don't need, by the way..

For completeness, I did some more tests to compare power usage at my 24/7 settings of 3.0 Ghz/1.0375v. I don't know if anyone cares, but here it is :) 70 watts idle 98 watts w/ prime 95 running 154 watts max w/ Folding@Home and World in Conflict playing at the same time (CD not spinning) I'm not 100...

Logically, since heat rises, you want air to come in somewhere near the bottom, go through the computer, then leave somewhere near the top. What kind of case do you have? Usually, cases have vents at the front in the bottom and in back near the top, so you'd put point the rear fan outwards and the f...

Waffle mods? I love this site

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814134035

but a lot of people here don't like ECS

ugh out of stock again
It was definitely in stock when I posted.

It goes in and out of stock there a lot; you might want to sign up for email notification. When I bought mine, it was in stock for only about 5 minutes.

newegg!
$24 plus shipping
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835186016

hurry!

As you can see in my sig, I have a similar system. I let the bios control my CPU fan (s-flex), and it generally runs at around 500-600rpm, so your 800rpm CPU should be fine. I just didn't see any disadvantage to getting the faster fan and letting it run slower. I use a 1200rpm slipstream exhaust@7v,...

A) I don't know, I got the DS3P because of the pipes but have no experience with the others... B) http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3206 Here's an anandtech review of "Dynamic Energy Saving", which is the main difference with the new boards. I didn't get much from that review, but maybe you...

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and Earthwatts 380 is $35
Newegg has deals on earthwatts very often

Have you listened to different parts of your computer to see which is the noisiest?

If you live near a Microcenter, they are having a sale on processors until 2/27.

Q6600 $200
E2160 $60
E4500 $100

Well, I decided to see if I could get up to 4ghz with this chip, and here are my results: First, I did a day of memtest86 at 400fsb, 6:5 DDR2 speed to make sure my ram could run >900 Mhz. I had to adjust memory timings from 5-4-4-12 to 5-5-5-18 to get the computer to boot. Then I did a day of foldin...

all the "D" models from gigabyte are ultra durable. Gigabyte says the DS3L is "ultra durable" while the DS3R and DS3P have "Ultra Durable 2". I'm not sure what the difference is, but the DS3P has a pipe between 2 heat sinks. The "ultra durable 2" marketing description also has more fancy pictures t...

The Accelero S1 Rev B appears to be out of stock virtually everywhere. This includes Newegg, where all my other parts are coming from, and their ETA is March 4th.. that's a long time. You could always get the ECS 8800gt which includes an accelero s1 and lets you keep your warranty. http://www.neweg...

I've used speedfan with my 3-pin fans also, but I've only used it a little while testing my temperatures to get a consistent fan speed. I haven't yet figured out how to use speedfan to do your more sophisticated controlling, but from the basic operations that are supported, it should be possible... ...

I think Everest is worth the price, but it would just be another toy for me to play with

yamaha - HWMonitor is still free

I like HWMonitor too. I have that on all the time now

I tried Everest recently and I like that, but I haven't decided whether I would use it enough to buy it

Yeah, I think you'll have to use something like speedfan to get more control of the fans

I'd say you were right to RMA as well, unless you didn't hook up all of the power connections as Dutchmm mentioned.

I've found many reports of DS3L's with old bios being able to boot with the chip, and none of the converse

My own DS3P booted with an old bios with no problems..

I have an Antec P150, i wanna buy a P7K500 250GB model; in your opinion, is it necessary to cool it down with front 90mm fans, or can i avoid install them? I'm not sure how cool we want to keep drives (can anyone answer this?), but the P7k500 500gb in my Solo stayed below 38 degrees when I had no f...

likwidsh0k wrote:I got a bonus I was unaware of Neverwinter Nights 2 which I was stoked about until I read it is a turd of a game lol.

I don't think it's that bad of a game, and 82% on metacritics and gamerankings is pretty decent, if you like that kind of game