Recent content by Midnight Man

I've seen a few of these in my time. I wouldn't buy one, own one, or sell one. Unfortunately, they are "too good to be true", and I'd be shocked if the thing could actually deliver 500W in any stable sort of fashion (gut feel on that model tells me it'll crap out around the 300-350W mark).

I'm hoping some of the experts here might be able to steer me in the right direction :) I'm looking for a Conroe mainboard - the system will not get any overclocking. I wish to use at least one X1900 in there, preferably with an after-market cooler such as the Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 -...

In which case, you're being subjected to the differing temperature probes on each respective mainboard - and it's fairly common to see not insignificant differences. Best way to tell what your system is really running like is to grab a digital thermometer and toss a couple of probes in...