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i'm wondering if anybody has mounted a MCW 60 block on a radeon 4890 card? hole to hole spacing is good, back plate fits, but the core doesn't seem to mate onto the face of the block terribly well. it's not leaving an even application of thermal compound when i test-mount the block and take...

i have been using onboard audio for a good while now, and it's been okay for the most part. the sound isn't perfect, but it's good enough for my games and the music souds just fine while i'm writing or doing research using the computer. however, going from my old NF2 with soundstorm and...

well, it's time for them to roll out the update for their seldom used MCW50-T http://www.swiftnets.com/products/mcw60-T.asp i'm glad that they include a reasonably powerfull pelt with it, since i had to take the pelt out of my maze 4-1 block because it is only an 80 watt and it wasn't...

i use DSL highspeed internet over a PPPoE connection, through a router. as a result of some changes that bell has made to their systems, i'm having some connection problems. many web sites will only load completely if i hammer on them using reload. HTTP downloads (windows update and...

this is just a thought, and i'm only putting it up to try and get some of the current discussion on waterblock testing into a dedicated thread. has anyone considered how accurate a measure of a waterblock's perfirmance with a "live" CPU that uses an IHS it would be to pop off the IHS, cut a...

hmm.....i thought that only nVidia cards could pull of HDR. http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/ i'll admit that i have not done ANY researc on this subject, i just saw the link on machall web comic. the app says that i am seeing HDR effects, and having seen HDR enabled farcry on my...

i'm told that there is a lot of opposition on here to useing the razor blade mod for getting the shim of ATI's video cards. i just wanted to say that although it was nerve-wracking, i have now successfully done the mod on my new card, and it was easy. take your time, go slow, be carefull...

i have a rad with two 120mm fans venting air out of my case, and have been running with the side panel open for a long time now. i am now looking at neatening my build up enough that i can close my side panel. if i leave the fans in the PSU fans as they are now, they will be fighting the fans...

i have foud a canadian retailer that is liquidating their remaining nVENTIV units a pretty good prices. i have not seen prices this good in canada before, and there are very few places that sell phase change up here, so the few places that have them usually charge a premium. the unit that...

http://www.thermochill.com/pa160.php i'm really not in the market for something like this, but would anyone like to express their thoughts on the design?

so, i recently spoke to an individual who said that he had the ultimate master plan for direct die cooling. he said that he was going to strip the heat spreader off of a prescott, and then rig up a phase change system such that the die itself would be the evaporator, and then the refrigerant...

blast........i think that someone important heard my claims about the weather here in southern ontario. i was not very happy to wake up and find this in my backyard yesterday: http://1stclasspcs.com/uploaded/DSCN0807.JPG i mean, spring is officially here, and most of the snow had...

well, this is just an initial attempt, but i have told stories about my most spectacular hardware failure previously, so now i'm trying to share some documenting photos. http://1stclasspcs.com/uploaded/DSCN0312.JPG http://1stclasspcs.com/uploaded/DSCN0308.JPG...

well, for the second time now, i've seen people mention putting heavier gauge wires on peltier modules to increase performance. what i would like to know is how much, if any difference would such a mod be likely to make in my system? i run a 226 watt pelt and an 80 watt pelt, supplied by a...