Ordered the Zotac (basic model) because A) it was available and B) It was the only available other than the 70$ more, longer 3 fans Gigabyte model. All the other models were back order...
The Gigabyte had 3 DP 1 HDMI and 1 Dual-Link DVI thats the only reason it could have been interesting but...
That's probably using a Canadian phone operator and using data while roaming in the states at 5$ per MB... Sick fucks canadian operators... Hehehe
(I know she's from France I am just pissed at our operators here in Canada)
http://www.telusmobility.com/en/QC/plans/data_add_ons.shtml
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Most of the heat come from the GPU anyway, I did the same with my 295GTX (cleaned the goo and applied Arctic Silver Ceramique and cleaned the solid carpet of dust between the fan and the fins of the heatsink) and the pads on the memory look the same and the temperature droped from 105c to 70-73...
Enabled V-Sync in Portal and control lag like mad. FPS are good but half a second pass before the character run forward when I press the key. (yes tried with and without triple buffering)
Install steam on SSD. Use SteamMover http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover to move games you use less often to your other drives.
Problem solved.
Onboard audio is enabled in the BIOS right?
Also maybe the HDMI audio interface on the video card might disable the onboard audio maybe? You have a video card with no HDMI to try?
I took the entire computer out to the garage and blew it out with an air compressor.
Some guy pictures of the operation. Not mine, but mine were the similar. https://picasaweb.google.com/jedighost/GTX295ThermalPasteReApplyingAndCoolerCleaning?authkey=Gv1sRgCKT546n4vrr3bw#
Yeah while you do that make sure you clean up and replace the thermal paste. And don't lose the screws! Theres a gazzilion of them remove the fan (and they are freaking small). Took me an hour and a half to open it up, clean everything and put it back together but temperatures dropped 25+...
One of my 295 GTX was doing that, 5 minute in intensive games was all that was needed to crash. I could play less intensive games no problems but the temperature was quite high.
Disassembled the card and cleaned the heatsink. Put it back together and temperature went back to normal. (45 Celcius...
Me and 8 of my friends are driving 11 hours to go in a short bus ;)
You didn't miss anything last year, the Nvidia presetation was less than underwelming... Shuttery WoW demo in 3d and a spokeperson with no ability to present in front of a crowd, no charisma at all and he looked lost. Pretty...
The intel speed advantage seem big in bench but in real life usage you wont notice the difference. One thing you do notice is on copy of large files the OCZ are faster and that is apparent in real life usage when you do copy large files and not only in bench.
That is why I chose a OCZ Agility...