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Here is what happened. 1) Thunder storm hit area with a ton of lightning while I was out of the house. PC was left on. (NOTE: PC was on surge protector) 2) Go to turn on PC, notice fans are running & LEDs are on, but nobody is home (no signal to monitor). Also, smell of burned plastic...

Here is what I've accomplished so far: Hardware: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester Thermalright XP-90 heatsink w/ Antec TriCool 120mm fan @ lowest speed setting Asus A8V Deluxe 2.0, 1009 Final BIOS 2x512 MB OCZ EL Platinum Rev2 PC3200 BFG 6800 GT OC w/ NV Silencer 5 Antec TrueBlue 480...

Does anybody know firsthand if the big Zalmann CNPS7700-AlCu cooler will fit on an Asus A8V deluxe 2.0 in a Super Lanboy case? Thanks. :D

I'm looking for a decorative fan grill for a 92mm panaflo fan. I've done some looking, but haven't found much. Anybody know a source for some good-looking ones? Thanks. :)

I'm looking for a first person shooter (or a good mod for a first person shooter) that lets you play through the single-player campaign cooperatively with somebody else online (in my case, on a lan). I've already got Unreal 2, Far Cry, Doom 3, and Half-Life 2, so any coop mods for those that...

Here is my dumb question: I have heard that you can lose a fair amount of game performance by using onboard audio instead of a real sound card. Is this accurate, and if so, how big of a performance hit am I taking? I have an Asus A8V Deluxe 2.0 motherboard. Thanks a bunch. I'm happy to...

I noticed something about my Asus A8V Deluxe Rev2 motherboard. If I use the 3-pin ATX power connectors on the mobo to power my fans (case and CPU), they will spin about 50%-100% faster than if I run them off 4-pin ATX power lines from my Antec TrueBlue 480W PSU. This was with both the Antec...

I've just built a system with the following hardware: Asus A8V Deluxe Rev2 (BIOS version 1009.2) A64 3500+ Winchester core OCZ EL Platinum Rev 2 PC3200 (2x512 MB) BFG 6800 GT OC WD 120GB 7,200 RPM IDE hard drive At stock clocks, it runs great. Over 69,000 on Aquamark 3. No errors...

NOTE: I checked the overclocking guide sticky in the forum and it didn't answer my questions. :) Overclocking n00b alert… I’ve upgraded my PC with an Asus A8V Deluxe Rev2 motherboard, an AMD 64 3500+ (90nm Winchester) and 1 GB (2x512) of OCZ EL Platinum Rev2 PC3200 RAM. I’m interested in...

My friend has a system with the following specs from Dell: P4 2.0 512 MB PC 2100 RAM Intel integrated graphics crap thing NO AGP slot (!) I actually looked inside the thing, those Dell bastards had a motherboard with a little white outline where the AGP slot should have been! Cheap...

I've been going nuts trying to find one of these critters. I need a 92mm fan for the XP-90 that I'm getting, and the Panaflo is the most recommended. However, the RPM monitoring versions ("BX" versions of the L1A/M1A/H1A series) are out of stock everywhere. Anybody know where I can buy one of...

Does anybody know firsthand if an XP-120 with a 120mm fan on an Asus A8V deluxe Rev 2 motherboard fit in an Antec Super Lanboy case? I know the A8V is on the list of compatable motherboards for the XP-120, but will the fat-ass cooler fit on that mobo in a Super Lanboy case without the PSU...

I'm defecting from Intel in a month or two to get an AMD 64 socket 939 mobo & cpu for my PC. What I'm looking for is a good aftermarket HSF with the following characteristics: -Quieter than AMD's stock HSF -Better cooling than AMD's stock HSF -Based on layout of my case, probably can't be...

For sale, one ATI Radeon 9200. This is the 128 bit/128 MB AGP version. It came with my Sony Vaio, so there is no packaging to speak of. It is new and UNUSED (it was replaced the day I bought the Vaio). This card is $89+S/H from ATI. http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2335507 If you...

NV Silencer 5 installation for the BFG 6800 GT OC with 2-fan cooler General comments: This is a step-by-step guide to installing the NV Silencer 5 on a BFG 6800 GT OC. It is meant to be very simple. It is a supplement to the instructions provided with the NV Silencer 5. To do this...

For those that aren't familiar with it, the NV Silencer 5 is an aftermarket air cooling system for the nVida 6800 series graphics cards. Arctic Cooling also makes similar coolers for just about every other ATI and nVidia graphics card out there. You can read more about their products here. I...