I have for sale: SOLD
-Q9550 e0 stepping. Can easily do 4 ghz. $80
-Gigabyte EP45-UD3R. No I/O shield. $75
-2x2 gb (4GB total) kit OCZ PC2-8500 V4GK (5-5-5 timings) $40
$200 shipped for the whole bundle
PLUS you get a Coolermaster Gemini IIS as bonus if you get the bundle:
It's not the greatest...
No seriously these boards have planned obsolence. They don't want us to be using the same video card for 4 years, they want it to break and sell us a new and equally shitty video card. Don't you understand how the coporations think?
I still say that a 120mm fan blowing over your card owns ramsinks and a ramblock combined. Of course you could add ramsinks for extra 5mhz, but the fan would win you much more in the short run. In the long run, it will keep your card from dying for a bit longer. Video cards are very prone to...
Bah, the all-in-one blocks tend to be really bad blocks. And watercooling memory is a waste of time and money. Unless it's chilled, of course, but that's a different story. There isn't much point in putting ramsinks on memory either. The heat transfer on top of the chips _REALLY_ sucks, so it...