Recent content by Kraid2xd

I wanna know too... every week, I see these "oem saphire radeon 9800 pros" in the newegg refurb sections for like ~$160. very tempted to get one, but after looking at the pictures, theheatsinks seem so flimsy and the enire card just looks to cheap and stripped... can't seem to trust it enough...

hello new liver+25lbs of extra flab...

Theres been alot of talk about how flashing your bios will render future driver updates unavailable due to installation problems. I have a leadtek A350 fx5900 lx (with the crappy 2.8ns ram) but I o/c that to 425/810 like its nothing, and heat never goes above 55*C, although I do have a vantec...

its an xt. clocked at 300/700 core/mem. I can easily get it up to 425/830 no problem. I just don't like the fact that the back panel covers the lefthand clips of the first two dim slots. If I were to get another stick, I wouldn't be able to clip them in because the only way the vidcard would...

anyone?

I bought a leadtek fx5900 lx and barely got the bastard to fit into my case due to the bulky aluminum catridge housing. It was hitting pretty close to two of my dimm slots, so I had to move my stick of ddr to the third slot furthest away from the card. Luckily, no capacitors were in the way...

Hi all, I read somewhere awhile back (I think it was here) that high intensity UV will oxidize the aluminum panels of your aluminum case, along with other pcb components. I was planning to buy some high intensity uv leds from an industrial catalogue which can be spliced to molex connectors for...

Get a rheobus to keep the noise level down... lower the rpm until you have a nice balance between cooling and noise.... and as for modifying wires to make connectors fit... not recomended but I've done it to connect my tornado to a thermaltake fan controller, which is then hooked to psu through...

Not true at all... I'm running a 1700+ tbred A using kt333 chipset... have it at multiplier 8, with fsb of 190mhz. I have corsair xms3200 c2 ram , which I think is the main factor in determining fsb limitations... I can't go any higher due to locked agp/pci ratio...

AX 7 with a vantec 80mm tornado for me on an athlon XP1700+ t-bred A, but the good thing is, I got the fan hooked up to a thermaltake fan controller after splicing some wires. Cools nice on low and medium setting with low noise at constant 39-40*c, with fan on full blast for o/c at 1.52ghz with...

is the thing connected by spring pins? If so, look on the back of the card behind the GPU and see if there are any plastic brackets portruding around it. If so, use some pliers to press the hooks on the brackets together and push out. If not, then that sucker is probably epoxied on the chip...

then you should probably tape it to the side of the heatsink, as close to the mobo as possible

is the thermal sensor the flat flexible kind or just a regular resistor? If it is the flat flexible kind (like the one that comes with a TT smartfan II) I taped mine on the side of the bottom copper slab of my AX7 and it seems to run fine.

I had the same problem but managed to find the source... two identical athlon 1700+, fresh tube of as3, two ax7's. 1 year later (oc'd), bought a pair of slk-800's, took off both hsf. Although they came off easily, the as3 on one cpu was kinda flaky along edges as you said. Then I...

I have a athlonXP 1700+ t-bred A in an epox 8k5a2+, and I noticed on a review at mikhailtech that the mobo actually read the ondie temperature diode of the cpu in additon to monitoring the temperture with external sensors... However, the ondie temperature readings are not displayed due to...