Recent content by Kupe

If all you plan to do is play Battlefield 2, you'll probably be fine with either. Tom's Hardware VGA charts a decent place to go to see how a card will perform. They benched battlefield 2142 most recently: http://www23.tomshardware.com/...7&model2=716&chart=275

The IP35-E also has more blueness. That puts it over the top in my book. Also, Upgr8er, it may not really matter to you, but Seagate is releasing their new 7200.11 drives soon. They're supposed to have a decent jump in performance over the 7200.10s, but I think the smallest size is 500GB...

I decided to take another look at it, because I was able to get the heatsink in pretty easily, but I had to nudge the NB HS a bit to get the fan on. I took some pictures: Lifted NB HS Lift 2 As you can see, the fan casing was lifting the NB cooler a bit. I wasn't having any temp or...

You should probably relax your timings and see how you do. CPU-z reports my ballistix pc6400 SPD at 4-4-4-12 at 400 Mhz, and 5-5-5-15 at 500Mhz. The C2D and C2Q overclocking guide at the HardOCP forums is pretty helpful if you haven't looked at it before...

Thanks! Yeah, the P182 makes it very easy to hide wires. And I just need a nice blue Nvidia card sometime to complete the look. And yeah, I guess that is tape with the IP35-E text on it. The 80mm fans in Antec PSUs always spins so slowly that I've never been able to hear them. Especially...

The NB Heatsink is pretty high. Like Heidfirst, I was able to get my freezer 7 pro in with some difficulty. I didn't cut anything though, so the NB heatsink and the Freezer's fan casing are touching. Here are some pictures to give you a better idea of what you'll have to deal with...

I had to be at 1.55 in BIOS and around 1.51 after vdroop on my e6600 to be stable at 3.6ghz and 400Mhz FSB. The AC freezer 7 pro kept me below 56C at all times too. I'm just sticking with 3Ghz because I'm sort of paranoid about running at voltages that high. I don't even seem to see any...

The numbers are indeed low. It's strange that your speed seems capped at 55MB/sec until 80%. If you look at my HDTune results with a 320GB 7200.10, it also starts dropping below 55MB at 80%, but it's a constant downward slope until that point...

Just for power savings or cooling, or are there other reasons? I'm just running at 2.2v since that's what it says to use on Crucial's website. http://www.crucial.com/store/p...ODULE=BL2KIT12864AA804 If I was going beyond 400 mhz, I'd certainly do some testing, but I'm not that ambitious.

I have 2GB of Crucial Ballistix PC-6400, and haven't had any problems. I originally booted at 1.8V with the SPD timings because I didn't check everything out first. I had no problems with these settings though. I'm now running at 2.2V with the recommended 4-4-4-12 timings.

I completely agree there. I've tried going to Vista for my HTPC a few times, but I can't even get hardware acceleration for DVDs on my geforce 8500GT in media center, let alone HD OTA or anything else. There are just too many programs and drivers that aren't up to speed, in addition to...

Yeah, I see what you mean about the confusion. Many different programs detect that I'm running at 3.6 when I'm running at 3.2. So, against your suggestion I ordered a freezer 7 pro and I'll try 3.6 with C1E and EIST again. It was only $25 shipped, so I figure if it doesn't work out it's not...

Man, I never knew that about the power schemes. Sure enough, what you say is on Intel's site: http://www.intel.com/cd/channe...asmo-na/eng/203838.htm This has all been very educational so far. I'll be getting one of those Kill A Watt monitors in the mail tomorrow or Wednesday, so I'll do...

Oh, I guess it's C1E that's responsible for this. I don't really understand what EIST offers me in addition to C1E. Hopefully not much.

Nope, still the same. It doesn't bother me though.