Recent content by AjDman

My guess is for cleaning purposes... which kind of worries me actually. Reviews on this are that it gets pretty hot. I'm guessing the manufacturer wants you to regularly clean your card's fan to reduce the risk of card failure (or perhaps, worse...).

Will this card work with Windows 7?

Anyone here familiar with GAG boot manager? I've got a nice GAG set-up, dual booting my choice of two different Windows XP loads (one for work, one for personal). GAG is great, if you're not familiar with it... it adds a little menu program to your hard drive's master boot record to let you...

Thanks! It worked... Clearly, this is just like buying via Steam. I'm gathering you could do this even if you bought a boxed store copy (go to Games in Steam, enter the activation code, download the game, etc.) Nice deal - about $30 for the game, plus the collector's stuff. I'm sure...

Ok, I don't get it... I just purchased this via Direct2Drive. Now I have my activation code too. I have a Steam account (and lots of Steam titles). But how do I download this from Steam (rather than downloading via direct2drive)? I'm in the Steam application, and don't see anywhere to...

Bump, to see if anyone has any tales to tell about Pretty Quiet Fans. (Sunon MS?)

Interesting approach, I never even thought of that... any lead on a good fanbus switch? (This reminds me of how I deal with the furnace in the studio; I have to turn it off when we track very quiet stuff; annoying but it works :) Still looking for a quieter fan option as well though. Anyone...

I recently installed removable hard drive caddies in all my PCs. The caddies are Kingwin KF-101-IPF, which are really great -- attractive (black fronts), heavy duty (aluminum sides), with an innovative bottom fan design that sucks heat away from the drive and out the back of the PC case. Check...

Thanks for the advice... I can't believe such a well-thought of board has such big-time memory flakiness. Perhaps this is just a problem with the 875 chipset in general. In the meantime, I seem to have stablized both of the 512MB chips in my system (at 266mhz, alas) by configuring them in as...

Well, there's another weekend shot to hell. I just bought a Gigabyte 8IK1100 (aka the stripped down 8KNXP). It replaces my Gigabyte 8PE667, which died a slow-but-honorable death. Trouble is - I was hoping to re-use my two identical Crucial PC2700 CL2.5 333mHz 512MB DDR chips with this new...

(Double post).