During WW2, German liquid cooled aircraft on the Eastern Front (Russia) used pure ethylene glycol as a coolant, a major ingredient of modern antifreeze. There was no water mixed with the ethylene glycol. To prevent damage to the engines from the coolant freezing, the Luftwaffe used to build...
The other day I was in a store and saw a rig running with the new cooler from Zalman. This is one sweet-looking system. Take it from me, I'm a robotics engineer and know "sweet" when I see it. It uses a 2 ft tall blue finned extruded aluminum water tower and a pump. No noise from the pump...
Thanks, Legend. Yeah, I just read that sidebar in CPU magazine on the NForce 4 chipset. I have the NForce 2 on my ASUS board and like it. Supposedly, ASUS has a Nforce 4 board already in the consumer ppeline for a December (?) launch. I like the hardware firewall that Nforce 4 offers...
Looking for a little advice.
I currently own a rock-stable A7N8X/Athlon XP2700-based system with an ATI Radeon 9700 pro GPU and 768Mb of PC3200 DDR ram. I'm a 39 year old gamer, and want to move to the next level in anticipation of Half-Life 2. Had no problems with running Doom 3, artifacts...
I did notice ghost images of several different portions of the board while reading the review online last night. There are two images of a retaining clip of some type shadowed or "ghosted" on the board.
You guys ever notice how some manufacturers will mask or retouch photos to hide what they...