Recent content by Gary Bechtold

I have an XFX GTX 285. It also runs at the standard 40% and is not noticeable in my system. It starts to become noticeable around 50%. I tried running it at 100% just for giggles, it was quite loud. I've left it on auto and never hear it while playing Far Cry 2, Frontlines- Fuel of War or...

Samsung has the XL20, XL24 and XL30 but they are part of their professional series, so they are expensive. That's the only ones I'm aware of.

Anybody?

Don't care on HD-DVD as I have no discs and don't plan on buying any. Getting ready to start buying BluRay discs instead of DVD's. My problem with WinDVD is Corel, they seem to screw everything up I love that they buy.

There is Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 8 and ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre and Corel WinDVD 9. Now I won't do Corel and I'm unsure about which is better PowerDVD or TotalMedia Theatre. I want it to be able to decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio to LPCM and/or pass through the bitstreams through...

Yep. I used both and all the previous Nvidia guts were removed, did unintall for nvidia, etc. Even still the fresh Vista install I tried on another HD didn't cure it either (nothing nvidia ever installed) and it still didn't play nice. I have the Intel X48 board, don't know if that...

No problem with Nvidia video cards with Vista 64 and my hardware. Tried a quick fresh install of Vista 64 with the video cards and had the same problems. I doubt you or anyone could have helped more than what I had gotten elsewhere. I had read what other people had done with their 4870 cards...

I'm not aware of aftermarket coolers that work with the GTX series yet unfortunately. I think a hairdryer when gaming is something you have to deal with on the GTX series from what I've read. I'd like to hear a GTX 280 myself.

As a stop gap I have a 9500GT holding place while I figure out what I'm going to do and the computer is perfectly stable. Way to go ATI with your crappy drivers ruining awesome hardware!

I had the card. Key words had the card. First the good. The cooler really works well and was quiet. Didn't notice the fan at 25% which was enough to keep the temps in the low 50's celcius. 40-100% were progressively noticeable, but not that bad. The bad. Memory has a smooth copper heat...