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Quick question about the aforementioned Asus Essence STX II sound card. I'm just doing a new build, and I've put this card in the bottom-most X4 slot, to give my GPU room to breath. When it's in this slot, two capacitors on the card are touching the plastic surface of the USB 3.0 front panel...

After being a longtime ATI user, I just switched to Nvidia partly to get a top of the line card, and partly because I'm getting fed up with ATI's habit of screwing things up on a regular basis. Anyway, after getting my GTX 580 installed, I'm curious about the stock clock speeds. With ATI...

I just finished building a new rig, and I've been testing with 3D Mark Vantage and 3D Mark 06 for the first time. Even though the online results browser compares your rig to others with similar setups, I was wondering if anyone could comment on my scores as far as real world performance goes...

Quick question, ignoring cost/power management/etc etc, which would be a better choice; an x2 card or two cards in SLI/Crossfire? Does one option or the other carry benefits as far as performance goes?

Just curious if anyone can tell me if I'll need to install some sort of F6 driver when installing Win7 when the SATA boot drive is set to AHCI? I've never installed any versions of 7 yet, but I'm compiling drivers a for a new build and I remember my last build needing an F6 driver when...

I'm going to be building a new PC for the release of Windows 7, and I'm hoping you guys can provide any critiques and answer a few questions I have. This is just a quick build I whipped up last night, so things aren't set in stone: Case - Antec P183 PSU - Seasonic X-750/Corsair HX750 MOBO -...

I've got two quick questions about pairing up a 4890 with an Accelero Twin Turbo. First, does anyone know if there is any difference in thickness between the Twin Turbo, and the Accelero S1 Rev.2 with the addon fans attached? I have the latter in my system currently, and it just fits because I...

In the last month or so I've been getting all sort of weird artifacting, outright crashes, and general graphical weirdness from my computer. Anything 2D, ie the XP gui, or light 3D stuff is fine, but heavier stuff starts it acting up. On the other hand, I can play Mass Effect fine for hours, but...

I just received my 4870 and Accelero in the mail today, and I'm curious about placing ramsinks on the VRM's. The current ramsinks I have are from Zalman, and they're quite a bit bigger than an individual VRM. Is it okay to place these large sinks over the VRM's if they might touch other...

Along with diagnosing my busted 8800GTX this weekend, I've been trying out a few different programs that display the temps from various parts of my mobo. HW Monitor is giving me one strange reading, and that is the AUXTIN value. Right now it's reading at 125C, which is obviously insanely hot...

Now that my Nvidia 8800 GTX bit the dust, I'm switching back to ATI. I'm going with an HD 4870 and an Accelero S1. I had a quick question about the ramsinks included with the Accelero though. I've read all the stories about the ramsinks falling off the card because they aren't particularly...

I know all about the memory hole in XP above 3gb, and I'm fine with that. I have purchased 2 sticks of 2gb ram though to future proof my system should I upgrade to Vista 64-bit at some point. The question I have is whether there are any instability issues, crashes, or any other general system...

I'm doing a system overhaul and replacing the stock fans in my P180 with a bunch of Yate Loons. This is surprisingly the first time I've ever installed 3rd party case fans, and this is a completely embarrassing question. How do you tell which way the airflow moves through a case fan? From what I...

I'm currently waiting on delivery of a Zalman VF1000 and an 8800GTX. I'm curious about the fan connector for the fan on the VF1000. If I didn't use the fanmate, can I plug the fan connector directly to the video card, or does this fan require a mobo header? And even if I had to connect to the...

While looking for a new mobo, I noticed a lot of manufacturers list the various speeds that memory can run at on their system. Along with that though, I often see a note with the speeds that say the manufacturer only officially supports up to a lower speed than the top end previously listed...

Just got an Accelero X2 for my x1900XT card. Two questions though. First, after removing the stock ATI cooler, do I need to reinstall that x-shaped crossbar on the rear of the card when I put the Accelero on? The installation instructions are kind of vague... kind of an eastern european engrish...

I just recently bought an Opteron 175 for my new system, and had a question about cooling. I have an opportunity to get a free Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, but AC's page doesn't list Opty's as compatible with the Freezer 64 Pro. On the other hand, I've seen a few builds listed here that show...