Recent content by John2583

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    Power Supply Requirments for EVGA GTX 260

    I have just purchased the same video card and have an 3 year+ old Enermax Noisetaker as well EG701AX-VE SFMA 2.0 http://www.enermaxusa.com/cata...nfo.php?products_id=66 It has dual 12 V rails 18 Amps each. I'm hoping others are right and that Nvidia has overestimated the current...
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    2x Socket F AMD Opteron Barcelona quad cores, what to do with them?

    Peter that's very good info and advice on going with server mobo instead of the shiny Asus ;-) o1die I know exactly the board you're talking about. I saw it listed on their promotions page if you buy a mobo, and case combo. I think that promotion ended Yesterday or today but still it was...
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    2x Socket F AMD Opteron Barcelona quad cores, what to do with them?

    Those threads are a gold mine. Thanks!
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    2x Socket F AMD Opteron Barcelona quad cores, what to do with them?

    I got these two Socket F (1207) AMD Opteron 8358 SE Quad-Core CPUs OS8356WAL4BGD Here is a picture of them (I'd put this inline if I could figure it out) http://img229c.imageshack.us/i...9/2860/dsc06649aq9.jpg Currently I have a MSI K8N Neo4/SLI board with Athlon 64 X2 3800+ based system...
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    Club-going ATOTers, have you experienced "the sassy girl" phenomenon?

    This might be similar. I was working with this girl out at some athletic fields at my university, we both worked for the recreation dept at that school. They had the womens soccer team out there.. when they finished their drills they took of their shirts only with their sports bra on, some of...
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    Good case deals?

    Where is this "I wanna" thread. I am looking for suggestions similar to this guy. I want at least 4 internal 3.5 hdd bays, no doors, ideally aluminum case w/ PSU for around 60-80 or 30-50 w/o PSU. I am using it to run a 939 based fileserver and game server for use at LANs and such. I'd like it...
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    OCing in Winter (20 degree Fahrenheit)

    I would love to find this thread. I searched a bit for it but couldn't find it. I remember someone did something similar on these forums by putting their rig outside on their porch and closing their sliding glass window on the cables partially and got some pretty cool OCs..
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    OCing in Winter (20 degree Fahrenheit)

    ya I quickly realized that my vcore limit was holding me back.. kind of dissapointing. I guess a DFI board might be better for OCing like I was trying to do.
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    OCing in Winter (20 degree Fahrenheit)

    Specs MSI K8N Neo4/SLI Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0 GHz stock) 2x1Gb Corsair XMS DDR 400 NVIDIA eVGA 7800 GT highest boot was 2580 MHz wasn't stable much past 2500 MHz, I didn't have much time to really mess with it cause I spent 2 hours in the 22 degree fahrenheit weather and...
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    MSI K8N chipset fan

    I was just messing around with some overclocking today and I realized mine was stuck! Wow I just turned it off. Hope I didn't damage it. MSI K8N Neo4 SLI Is there are replacement or an upgrade heatsink and/or fan combo someone could suggest? I'm going to try and fix it for the time being if I...
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    My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

    I think in the future I will just create a new thread for a question like this. I laid out everything in my first post yet people responded to the original post and still some people asked for information I already gave.. so they read some of my posts. I don't know, on most forums people always...
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    My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

    I do need an NVIDIA card because I'm going to use it in Linux a lot and ATI drivers are crap in linux. Thanks for the comments guys I think you've made it clear that the Ti4600 is a better deal than the FX5500 as far as performance goes. I'll be on ebay now ;-)
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    My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

    Thanks for the experience report that makes me want to get the NEW FX5500 over a used Ti4600. Anyone care to elaborate on the technical pros and cons of teh ti4600 over a FX5500? ie Directx8 vs 9 hardware support, clock speeds, and the fact that the Ti4600 only has 128 MB memory vs the 256...
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    My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

    I recently upgraded my system and now I have my old rig that I was thinking into making a guest gaming rig so that people could come over and play UT2004, Counter Strike/CS:Source, etc and I wanted to upgrade the video card to a something that would cost between $40-$60 Ideally around $50...
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    do all of you actually run SLI?

    I am planning on buying the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI board. I am getting one BFG NVIDIA 6800GT. I want the mobo for its features, dual SATA II, Dual Gigabit(one provided by nforce chipset, the other marvel, as opposed to both being marvel on the Ultra mobo) The Soundblaster Audigy onboard sound...