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Thanks for your suggestion... Unfortunately, between the new marriage, new child, new house, and current condition of the economy and its effects on my finances, my budget for this is exactly $0. However, if I find my CPU wb won't fit because of the capacitors that are pretty close to the...

I haven’t looked into WC info for years and feel completely out-of-date. I’ve gotten married and become a father since the last time I did this and am very short on time these days. I would really appreciate your help and am hoping someone on this board can let me know if scaling...

Actually, as I indicated, I had the offer of a second 8800GT in my ticket already. I think that is an excellent solution. However, I think I am going to use this as an excuse to finally sell my remaining GTS 640 to a friend with one already who has been saying he is interested in my second card...

Well, XFX agrees, so that is awesome. I guess this was just a minor attention to detail issue. They obviously agree with boomhower and I: We can RMa the other 88GTS for another 8800GT 512 card to get your SLI rig back up and runnning.

Thanks guys, I was planning to give them a call on Monday. I just don't want to have warped expectations. Boomhower, that is basically where I'm at, but I don't think they are open on the weekends, and I wanted to see if others shared my expectations. Good point, except that they did know...

No, I found out after business hours today (Friday). They would not even be able to respond until Monday, and I am not even sure I should be upset. I have had my rig turned into a single gpu system, though I spent good money on SLI. Maybe it is unresonable to expect that to matter, though. I...

Hey, guys. I understand that an 8800GT and an old 8800GTS 640 are reasonably equivalent (96->112SPs, but 128MB more ram and 50% more memory bus width), but I bought a second card for SLI and the second card failed. Now I have an 8800GT RMA replacement and my original 8800GTS 640. Maybe an...

Swiftech says that the 355 is louder than the 350 and the 655, actually. I have the 655 w/ no adjustably, it just runs on full all the time, and it is very quiet/low vibration. With only a couple decent fans running, I think I would not hear the pump for the fans. Of course, I run 9 120mm fans...

When I first got TF2, I had such a choppy/laggy response from that game (only when moving or w/ moving objects, great when standing still), that I put in a ticket. Turned out, it was only with the Valve "test" servers that I was connecting to. All other servers (anything that didn't have "valve"...

Ahh, then I would definitely "pester him". Try it. Worst case is you could just "pester him" again to put it back (if he even cares, which he might not - right?). Your 8600 series cards are a bit different than the other stuff out, now. Only 32SPs was a really limiting factor for them. Way...

Yes, you could. You would end up running, effectively, with a pair of 256MB 8600GTS cards when in SLI. This is the same issue that was run into when the 8800GTS 320 and 640 were the two cheapest DX10 cards. You can mix different RAM amounts, and different clock speeds, but which ever is...

50% more memory-path width and 50% more RAM, FTW. Why "step up" to 33% less bandwidth/clock and 33% less RAM, again? The rendering horsepower in the 9800GTX (and other 256-bit memory sub-system cards) is only needed for playable/optimal frame rates with higher shader/processing settings in...

+1 RivaTuner is excellent. 2.09 seems to be continuing a very good trend...

That is in the US, and I am grateful since I have a replacement 8800GTS 640MB out with FedEx right now. Unfortunately, their ROW warranty sucks at only 1 year. No ability to transfer it, either. Better off with another maker for anyone making a Rest-Of-World purchase. A lot of mfgs reduce the...

Yeah, I always disliked that. A video/cpu hardware benchmark that REQUIRES internet connectivity is idiotic. Clearly only done to track people and use that to add to their bottom line. Unfortunately I signed up to download this Vantage, but at least I got laid-off and busy with my job-search...

I am running the MCP655-B myself now, and if you have a couple decent speed fans, they will drown out the sound of a single MCP655 set at 5, based on my experience with mine. It's not very noisy. Plus, you do save a few bucks, which can be helpful.

Yeah, that "losing over clocks" vs "raising temperatures" is an interesting differentiation. I see what you mean. The temps going up by a few degrees even (not likely to be that much, if any I am thinking) should not affect my ability to overclock the parts, and what is the point of all of this...

Well, his point regarding reducing the voltage of components while still running them with the same level of stability at the exact same frequency with water vs air is a good one to consider in your situation. Add water, lower all voltages while ensuring your apps don't crash while crunching...

I think your test method told you something very specific about the lower fan speeds. I don't think what it told you actually matters, though. Not saying you shouldn't lower your fan speeds if you want to, just that this test didn't help you get any useful information on what is the actual...

The short of it I was wondering if the more experience watercoolers here could help me figure out if I can consolidate my dual loop setup into a single loop setup w/o it costing me any performance. So, this is what the loop would end up being: MCP655-B -> XtremeII Rad -> MCW30 -> Intel...

It appears hope is still alive... Awesome, thanks!

As far as the image posted pages back on the ATI roadmap, does any one else think the 4000 high end (the dual, specifically) as specified there would be a joke? Admittedly we don't know if those specs are at all related to reality, but assume with me here for a moment... :D The 9800GX2 is a...

I too would have gone with the older date. I got an L804A677 from the Fry's deal earlier this week, though. It has a VID of 1.275. That seems pretty good, kinda in the middle. The really sad thing is that it so doesn't matter to me. I am running a "virtualization project" home lab server on a...

I thought this was all well understood... It says what each type stresses in the dialog box that starts them. ??? "Small FFTs" for CPU overclock stability testing and "blend" testing to make sure the FSB, RAM, etc are all happy as well. On current versions of Prime95 do you still need to...

I would drop the x-fi and creative's "craptastical" driver-problem history (for years now - come on creative, you can do it!) and go with one of the ASUS XONAR cards, if you are stuck on a sound card for games. If you just want the sound card for higher basic sound-quality than onboard stuff...

lol I am typing this reply on an XP Pro machine that just made that change, actually. It was not a problem for me. This machine last ran about 6 months ago, and that was on my e6600. It booted up yesterday, for the first time since then, running on a q6600 I just got from Fry's to start a...

The VID thing has yet to be really nailed down. I have seen xtremesystems.org posters saying the 803/804 batches are all "crap" with high VIDs of 1.325, but I have an 804 w/ 1.275v. I don't think anyone has done enough leg work to be able to say how strongly a particular batch affects VID, but...

Woe is me. If only Intel would stop innovating so, so that Fry's could help their customers... Dear valued Frys.com customer, Thank you for contacting Frys.com. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer price protection on your recent order. We make every effort to keep our prices...

I ordered on Sunday, selected standard ground for <$5.80, and I just got my G0 L804A677 (VID: 1.275, pack: 3/24/08), about three hours ago. You know, it went from Ohio to California in only 12 hours. It's been in CA since 9PM, yesterday. That is one fast "ground" vehicle they have there. lol...

I don't have an SLI score yet for my pair of 8800GTS 640MB cards, but my best single GPU score was 11,400. Of course that is with a 3.3Ghz e6600 and DDR2-1066 feeding my A3 stepping card @ 675/1620/1080. At stock CPU and GPU clocks (2.4Ghz, and 513/1188/793) I got ~8700. I think something...

My motherboard doesn't OC quads well, so I would go for an 8400. What motherboard are you using? What has it done in the OC database for Quads... There are other pieces of info that will contribute to your choice. If I had a good P35 board, I would get a q6600 in a heart beat. I have SLI...

If only half those specs end up to be the case, that would still be pretty sweet. Plus, you did call it on the G92, and that kind of hardware for a "cheaper" refresh made less sense than this kind of spec on a new architecture after almost two years. I do hope they make available more than...

The World In Conflict demo has a canned benchmark, but I am not sure how representative it is of actual game play. My machine is down, awaiting a replacement for the GPUs' failed water pump, but I will be installing these drivers as soon as I get it back to running properly.

This is just off the top of my head, but if the 8x card needs different drivers, have you tried installing both? Maybe that is just too obvious to work on a computer. :D

The only preference I have in that list is SP2 before anything, then the latest DX version to complete the various driver prerequisites. Having a CD/DVD with SP2 on it is really helpful. No compromising it when it gets networked, because it won't get networked until SP2 is installed (with its...

Am I the only one who thinks this should have been made way more simple by MS? The fact we can do this at all is pretty cool. Solves one of my biggest concerns with Vista (that is to say, not very big - Vista rocks!), but why 11 steps, Microsoft?

You've got to be kidding me. Was XP SP2 a good update? Did it offer improvements? Was it "free"? It was just downloaded and installed after all. Vista needs to be "bought". The company I work for helps many clients/companies support Windows seats that number in the millions, all told. Plus...

The real point of the link above (IMO) is that, even before the rebate, that pair of 2GB OCZ PC2-6400 DIMMs at Fry's website is only $85. Wow, $5 more than mwarps said for 4GB of that OCZ stuff. mwarps was dead on. The rebate is gravy, though - no doubt. To the XP 64bit pimp ( :D ), XP-Pro...

Will 4x 1GB DIMMs be a different amount of stress on my memory controller vs running w/ 2x 512MB DIMMs and 2x 1GBers? My board's NB is the nforce 650i, if anyone thinks that tid-bit matters. Thanks for weighing in.

I have that board as well (DG965WH), and do not underestimate how finicky it can be with RAM. Honestly, you should get your CPU and try it regardless, but be prepared for it not to work. I have a pair of Kingston HyperX 512MB sticks I got for the thing, because they included an SPD entry of...