Recent content by raehl

I have a case with two power supply bays, but I'm only using one of them. In the lower bay, there's just a piece of metal that closes off the case where the opening for the 2nd power supply would be. This also happens to be a big dead space under my 2nd video card that runs pretty hot. I'd...

I have a system with two 8800 GTX's. There's a lot of heat, and when the computer is on a while things start to hang. My GPUs were running about 58C, so I downloaded nTune and cranked up the fan speed to 100%. The temp on GPU0 went down to 53C pretty quick, but it appears that nTune is not able...

Depends on what you're doing. Your x16 PCIe slots will be more than wide enough to handle pretty much anything until your motherboard is obsolete. Graphics cards don't really use more than 50% of that bandwidth as it is.

If the battery was the ONLY problem I was having, then I would. But my 2nd graphics card is intermittently not being discovered, and I also have the problem with it not being able to overclock the processor properly, despite having the most recent BIOS.

Well, I think it's actually running at about 325 MHz. It's got the 9x multiplier, and it seems to just not be getting multiplied. I'd submit it but I'm going on vacation next week and have to RMA the board before I go, so no time.

Thanks for the help. I did already update the BIOS. Hunting down a new battery is probably enough of a hassle that I'll just take your advice and grab one of those eVGA boards.

Yeap, Q6600. QX6700 seemed like a waste of money. But man, I really, really, really don't want to swap out motherboards if I can help it AT ALL. Putting this thing together has been a right PITA.

QX6600 Foxconn N68S7AA 680i SLI motherboard 2 eVGA 8800s 4x 1GB 1066 MHz Corsair Dominator Thermaltake 720 tower Thermaltake 1200 W Toughpower Windows XP Pro 64-bit I have to say I've been pretty disappointed with this system thus far - most of my desktop applications are slower/flakier...

You realize that a 21" monitor is pretty much exactly the same screen size as a 20" LCD, right?

You'd raise your FSB because system performance depends on it heavily? Just overclocking your processor won't get you nearly as good a performance boost as overclocking your processor AND FSB. Gotta move that data around you know.

Gah. Metals have two relavant properties: Thermal CONDUCTIVITY and thermal CAPACITENCE. The first is how well heat moves THROUGH the metal, and the second is how much heat the metal holds per unit of weight per degree of temperature. (Put another way, how much energy is needed to raise...

Reflashed with 1.40. Works great now (picks right multiplier and everything.)

I'm also guessing that my performance hit is due to the BIOS selecting the base 4x multiplier on a fresh reset.

I have an MSI Neo Platinum motherboard with a 3200+ DTR in it. Worked fine for about a week, but when I changed some settings in the BIOS and rebooted, it wouldn't post. If I clear the CMOS and reboot, it will clear the memory test and then give me a CMOS Checksum Failed - defaults loaded...

Ok, I have an MSI K8N Neo Platinum with a 3200+ DTR in it. Worked fine so far. I changed some BIOS settings and saved and rebooted, but it wouldn't post. I reset the BIOS (jumper or taking out the battery, same effect) and it'll boot with a CMOS checksum error once, but then I'll need to...