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I also have the SX830 and it is the BEST case I have ever used! It is large though but with 4 80mm fans THIS CASE IS COOL (as in cold)! I have an AMD 1.1 GHz and a 64 meg GTS 2 (lots of heat from those suckers) and my case temp stays around 27C I have seen it as low as 24C early in the morning...

I noticed that the shadows and lighting are wonderful in this recently released game. My question is this; Does the game take advantage of the hardware per pixel shader of my 7700 Geforce 2 GTS?

hehe NOX, Thanks I feel MUCH better! :D

WD = suck (well caviar line at least... had 3 drives die within a year) I just bought a 45 GB IBM drive that I hope will change my opinion of hard drives for the better.

I think my 3DMARK 2000 scores are too low... i.e. 6659 @ 1024x768 16 bit. Could this be caused by my use of the ASUS video drivers? (ver. 5.33a) or is it something else? I have a 1.1 GHz thunderbird A7V with 256 meg micron cas 2. I downloaded the latest 4in1 from asus and installed it. (It...

10 days... more like 20 days. they said they would be up early this week... that was on the 13th. They were down unexpectedly like a week or two before that.

Will the copper oxide that develops on the outer surface of copper, just look at old pennies, decay the performance of a copper HS? I imagine it isn't that big of a deal but I am building a new athlon system and I want a good HS that will last.

Ornery, maybe you are right... I've always had my comp on like 24/7. Unfortunately I have never had the good fortune to own an Expert drive. But I did have good luck with WD early on in life. I had a 1 gig that worked fine, it was just the stuff I bought the last few years... uh, frankly they've...

If you want a stable system in the next couple months then get PC133. DDR will be out in Dec. but the prices will be high (at least for the MB's) and the stablity may be questionable. It will take a bit to ramp and we might not see really good DDR boards till February. Abit and ASUS have a...

Yes Plio you should! I have had 2 WD HD's fail on me and one more appears to be going (an RMA from a former dead WD) I was attacked by the Click of DEATH!!! AHHHHH run!!!

PC133 will more than likely stay at the same price or drop slightly for the next 3 months... Nothing is ever guaranteed though! It really all depends on Rambus and DDR and how quick demand switches to one of the two (or both). If demand takes of for rambus (a sucessful 850i launch? yeah right...

Me too Shagga... It's been down for like 2 weeks, err well it seems like it anyway. I had to go to Thresh's to find out the MI4 demo was out :( Anyway the gamefan site IS still around, http://www.gamefan-network.com

Mad, I had a weird problem once with a mag monitor where the screen would get wavy. I think I had an old 968... anyway I unhooked the monitor and put another vidcard in and it did the same thing, so I thought it was the monitor and I went out and bought a new monitor and set aside the old one...

Thanks for the great info guys! I hope to run at 1240*1024 or higher in 2D with at least a 75 Hz refresh... Is the GTS really that bad? I have read a few articles on the web for how to increase the Geforce crispness by taking out some inductors, have any of you done that? and if so does it...

I am in the process of putting a computer together and I would like to get some feedback from Ilyama monitor users... I checked out ZDnet and Cnet and they rate the 450 visionmaster pro as a moderate buy (i.e. a 5 out of ten, 3 of 5 stars like). Anand's review is much better and highly...