Recent content by bulletproofman19

I took my graphics card out, and blasted it with compressed air. Got a good amount of dust out of the heat sink and fan areas. Just played Portal for an hour at 65C, no problems. Thank you!

any thoughts from anyone?

I disabled the ATI Hotkey Poller Service, which some site said was related to ATI Overdrive. With this change, my GPU got as hot as 91C / 195F, but I didn't have any problems. But from what you're saying, my temp was high before, so I'm not sure that this is the right solution if I want to...

I have an ASUS P5W-DH 975 X CROSSFIRE. Do you think I should turn off my ATI Overdrive?

Ok, I ran Portal until I started getting the beeps, then I quit out and immediately took this screenshot from PC Wizard: http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2223/pcwizardyg0.jpg Are there any other screenshots that would help?

I have a temperature LCD on the front of my case. I'm not sure exactly where the sensor is inside, but during Portal I'm around 95F, which seems pretty cool to me. I guess I should download CPU-Z for better measurements. How can I check voltages? How could I troubleshoot further to find...

I have a 1 year old system. E6400 (no overclock), 2 Gigs of RAM, Ati 1950 Pro, etc. I have a 1280x720 widescreen resolution and get solid performance in games like World of Warcraft, Team Fortress 2 and BF2142. I recently broke into Portal (part of the Orange Box) and am having a slight...

I'm ending my participation in this thread before I get in trouble. Again, my apologies for my ignorance of the rules -- I did not intend for this to become a bidding war / interest gauge of any kind.

thanks for all your help. i ended up searching eBay completed items for similiar systems, and I found several in the upper 200s (http://cgi.ebay.com/SHUTTLE-XPC-Media-C...0QQcategoryZ140075QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem and http://cgi.ebay.com/Shuttle-SB65G2-Blac...QQcategoryZ140076QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)...

tempting, but no

sorry, i didn't know the rule. i'll check elsewhere. thanks.

btw, I LIKE PIE TOO

from the benchmarks i've seen, DX10's performance is considerably higher than DX9, and in the future, at some point, games will require DX10. This does assume the machine would be for gaming. If not, then disregard my opinion.

I'm looking to sell my old PC to a buddy, and I want to know what price is fair for both of us. Here's the specs Shuttle SFF Case (SK41-G) w/ whatever mobo came with it Athlon 2400+ XP 1 GB RAM 9600XT 256 MB Video Card 120 GB Hard Drive Combo DVD/CD-R Drive No OS I was thinking...

there's rarely a perfect time to build a PC, since there's always something better on the horizon. that being said, i'd personally be inclined to wait for mid range DX 10 cards if you can live with your current setup for a while longer.