Wow.. I just realized your first post was load temps. Which means my reported "idle temps" are higher than your load temps. Doesn't that suck ass..

Wonder if I can get an RMA or something..

I have both the HR 03 GT and the Accelero S1.. considering it costs half the price and that it uses much less space than the thermalright.. the Accelero S1 is a definite winner. Tested in the same case, the Accelero S1 with a Turbo module is only 1 degree behind my HR 03 GT. On load, it was roughly ...

According to my motherboard utility.. the chip is 32 degrees on load while running OCCT. It sounds about right.. judging by the lack of heat from the cooler. I also did what you did, the air coming out of the cooler is definitely cold. I know my TRUE on my Q6600 feels a bit warm after loading all fo...

And so.. thinking I screwed it all up. I took the heatsink off. Lapped it. Reapplied my lovely Tuniq TX-2. Made sure it is seated perfectly this time. Not taking a second peek. Voila, I shaved off 1 degree. I guess the temp sensor is busted. The heatsink again does not feel at all hot even during a ...

I got a Noctua NH U12P.. the E8400 idles at very high temps. In the Bios (Gigabyte EP35-DS4), the CPU Temp is detected as 23 degrees. Updated to the latest F3 bios, same reading. In Core temp, it shows 49/42 Idle. In Real temp, it shows 39/32 degrees Idle. I opened up the case to touch my heatsink, ...

Well considering there's only one way of putting the shield in, yea I did it from the inside.

In the end, I used some WD40 and bent the frame a bit. A good three hour job.

I don't know.. I never had this much of a difficult time putting a shield in. It was Hell trying to fit one in the Solo also.

This is the second time I'm fitting in an I/O shield (P35-DS4 shield) into the P150. For some reason, it does not want to go in. I've been trying for 2 hours now. My fingers are getting sore. I even tried hammering it in from the inside. I just don't know what else to try. Can anyone gimme some advi...

I thought it was just fine looking. It's a big radiator - straight and to the point. And it cools my ATI card like nothing I've ever seen. I dunno, my fins were bent.. not really pleasing to look at. If you look at the picture on Newegg, that don't look so good either :) The HR 03 is just damn fine...

I purchased one of these after alot of thought. I needed a dual slot and lightweight solution and this seem to fit the bill. The money I've spent on this cooler however, costed as much as the HR 03 GT after all the additional ram sinks were added in. My first impression of this was that it was very ...

the only thing that upsets me is .. lack of dual gigabit lan.. i needed two.. with one dedicated to virtualbox.. damn it Then you want the DFI board I mention above. Dual gigabit LAN and a better sound card (ALC885 > ALC889a) -Robert That is really odd. From this chart, http://www.realtek.com.tw/im...

MX-2 is better than AS-5 Btw.. :D Is this true or are you just joking? And what is MX-2? Not joking. I was going to buy AS-5 for my new build then someone replied MX-2 is better. Checked out some reviews and they are right - it's only 1 - 2c but I will take anything! (could be margin of error like ...

Gigabyte has 6 phase pwms.. if it makes any difference.. I looked at the Abit ones alot.. cuz they are priced around the same as gigabyte... in the end.. i went gigabyte because of.. - 889A audio versus 888 audio (what;s the difference.. i dunno.. higher the better?) - 6 phase versus 4 phase (asus i...

This is why I went with Gigabyte again.. We better placements.

Abit or Gigabyte.. both have better placements. I mean.. angled sata connectors are good.. but won't it cover the sata port below it?

It is a real shame.. the P5K-E really did had everything I needed.. firewire included.

From where I'm located, thermal adhesive is hard to find locally.. and buying it online.. wow.. might as well buy some new ramsinks. I'd say buy two sets of the zalman vga ramsinks.. cheap and easy to find. They are guaranteed to stick! On another note, does the vrms/mosfets.. really need heatsinks?...

Actually.. sorry my bad! You know what? It is completely identical to the DS4.. the codec is the same.. It does have 2 pci-e slots.. whoops.. The only thing that is different is the heatpipes.. frankly they are worth jack. I'd say go with the ds3p. Crap.. I had always assumed ds3p had 1 pci-e.. o cr...

DS4 adds another PCI-E slot.. that's about it.

The heatpipe stuff is pure marketing.. I'm sure that giant heatsink on the DS3R would be enough. DS3P is essentially a DS3R with heatpipe + firewire.

Thanks for the reply.. I guess Gigabyte is my only way out of this with its "Normal" setting.. The Asus seems like such a deal tho.. damn it! Has everything + wifi!

Wait a minute. Unless I have something seriously wrong with my memory, the memory performance has nothing to do with the intel CPU. Only AMDs have memory controllers integrated into them at the moment. The only thing that could affect memory performance would be the bus speed. How would Speedstep be...

Is there anyone out there that is using Speedstep on a P5K-E while overclocking a CPU? More importantly, does it work properly? On idle, not only should the multiplier drop, the vcore should also drop. I have verified this to work on my Gigabyte P35-DS4 but the board is some 40 bucks more expensive ...

crap and here I got suckered into buying Arctic Cooling MX 2.. when my AS5 is apparently better.. damn it all!

at least it was cheap..

For Crysis, I'm getting 35FPS at 1680x1050 with mix of High/Medium settings (with all settings at High, I get 25.5FPS). At the 35FPS settings, it's very playable and still looks amazing :D. Wow.. I have a 8800 GT.. i play at 1280x800 lol.. with everything on high.. plus 2x FSAA.. and damn! the last...

I use Windows XP.. and installing the drives as Native AHCI sata was a bad experience for me. It required a floppy and only floppy.. no cds, usb thumb drives.. I didn't have my floppy drive installed (biege.. I have a black case).. and I didn't want to buy a new one.. And I'm too lazy to open the bo...

ghettojiggalo wrote:

Honestly, if the S1 turns out to be equivalent to the HR 03 GT in performance.. I am gonna cry! Turns out last week.. just one week after I got my HR 03 GT.. they had a massive sale on the S1s..

where and how much?

it was 20 bucks at NCIX.com

My post got deleted on HardOCP for saying they should have tested the AC S-1, lol. I guess they got a flood of posts about that. On a side note, it seems that the HR-03 is assumed to be better because it's more expensive. Does anyone else kind of get that impression? I know there is the whole mount...

seraphyn wrote:From the coolers used, it was clear from the get go that the HR03 would be winning. No surprises there.

What would've been interesting to see was a HR03 vs S1 standoff.

Thats what I want to see also. S1 versus the HR 03 GT.. no doubt the S1 will be superior to everything else in that chart.

What happens with your system? Black screen? Lock up?

So far my install is ok. I played a few hours of gears of war and pro street. So far so good.. no crashes or anything.

Just got one of these puppies. Honestly, it was a bitch to install. I don't know why everyone claims it is so easy to install.. maybe I am a retard.. :( I followed the diagram.. and whoa.. mounting screws in the front.. and washers and X plate at the back was a nightmare for me.. on top of it.. the ...

Gluing a big heatsink on a small gpu core is, imho, a very bad idea. I'm just worried that it will get ripped out of the card.

You are better off getting something that you can screw on the board.

Expanding on this a bit. Out of curiousity i fitted a Nexus Real Silent fan on top of the S1. On inaudile level (600RPM) this resulted in a drop in temperaure to: Idle: 40C Load: 46C When ramping up the fans to max (1000RPM) temperatures drop even lower. Idle: 32C Load 35C Holy crap. What kind of c...

I think the Asus P5K-E Wifi board is hard to beat with it's features and price. Alot of people however recommend gigabyte and abit boards. So far, I'm loving my gigabyte P35-DS4 board.. I use my fans at 12v.. (Noctua S12-800 :)).. so this board does everything I need it to. If the DS3R is anything l...