Recent content by indiekiduk

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    Cool n' Quiet in Windows Vista

    Just tried SpeedFan and although its a total pain to configure it eventually works. How to set it up is explained here: http://www.overclockers.com/articles1165/index02.asp
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    Cool n' Quiet in Windows Vista

    Any update? My work around is to use RightMark to contol the stepping but I'm still looking for a cpu fan control utility because the fan is going at full speed. I guess we need to wait for either a new bios for the K8NGM2-FID or some kind of patch from MS to fix the cool'n'quiet detection...
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    The *Official* MSI K8NGM2-FID GeForce 6150 Motherboard Thread

    I upgraded to Vista and now have a problem with this board. Since Cool'n'quiet isn't detected you need to use RightMark to control the CPU speed but thats no biggie. My problem is that the fans are on all the time. Anyone know a fan control utility for this board which works in vista?
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    939 board for mid-hi end gaming

    THanks the Abit AN8 Ultra did look like an excellent choice but I read the USB fails on high load and I have a few external USB hard drives that I'd be using. I went for the MSI K8NGM2-FID in the end since it has everything I want (gigabit lan, DVI out, sata2, firewire) and it seems Linux is...
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    939 board for mid-hi end gaming

    Why did they put one card in the SLI motherboard in their AMD system recommendation? http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2753&p=10 Are there any decent boards that are fanless, have sata2, gigabit, firewire and are not SLI? I'm not a gamer so don't require that feature.