Recent content by Dgremlin

I recently replaced my 9200SE video card with a 9800 Pro which works great except for one thing. I completely power down my computer each night. When I get up in the morning and turn the system on, it POSTS normal and I see my Asus motherboard logo screen. Then the monitor goes out and nothing...

Is anyone out there running an ATI 9800 or Nvidia 6800 series video card with an Asus A7V8X mb? I plan on purchasing one of these cards and I'm wondering which one would be the most compatible with my mobo. (I'm leaning towards the Nvidia just because my ATI 9200SE card is driving me crazy with...

As far as the fan blow/suck setup, here is a good article that was comparing a couple of the big boys...the Alpha 8045 and the Swiftech MC-462. It seems that even though they were designed to work in suck mode, they both performed a little better with the fan blowing onto the heatsink...

I have an A7V8X with an XP1600 chip and my stock CPU temp was running about 43C at idle and 50C under load. I cut a blowhole in the top of the case with an 80mm fan blowing out and the case temp dropped 20 degrees F. The cpu temps dropped about 8 - 10 degrees F. Since then, I have installed an...

I took out my XP1600 chip yesterday and was going to attempt closing the L1 bridges...NO WAY! In my prime my eyes were never that good or my hand that steady to work on something that small. I have been thinking about moving up to an XP2000 and was wondering if anyone knows someplace that will...

As long as you're checking your heatsink, you might want to take it off, clean the bottom of it and the top of the chip, and apply some fresh heatsink compound. I was running an MSI K7T266 MB and it was running a little warm until I redid the heatsink/thermal compound. I guess I wasn't getting...

You are truly a dangerous individual. Just one question. Even if you run the water cooling 24 hours a day, won't it still freeze in the reservoir unless you add some antifreeze or something? (BTW...awesome setup!)

I have an 80mm tornado fan and mine just runs full out all the time. I know that my Asus motherboard came with a program that would control the fan speed and I think it was programable for different temps but I didn't install it. Maybe you have something similar and you just need to adjust the...

If they don't plan to do any radical overclocking, I'm pretty sure just about any cpu cooler for an XP chip should keep it within operating ranges. The Sk-6 should do even better than most.

I just ordered a Vantec Nexus Multi-functiuon panel and I want to use it to monitor certain components. Besides the CPU, I was thinking about putting a temp sensor on the heatsink for my KT400 chipset and possibly attatching one to my memory stick heatsink. My problem is I haven't been able to...