Recent content by Rebel Nugget

Actually, the sun's gravitational influence is incredibly greater then that of the moon. If what you said is true, then we would orbit around the moon instead of the sun. That is obviously not the case. However, there is a germ of truth in what you said about tides. The reason that the...

Two questions: Anyone know how to change that start up picture in the BIOS that's a picture of the board by default? I think there is a way, but I can't find it in the manual or the support page. Also, anyone else have the problem of their case fans spinning really slowly? I have a TT...

Thanks for that information, Kovie. In that case, I'm kind of a newb regarding cooling, but anyone know of a decent chipset fan they can direct me towards or if there are compatability issues between different chipsets?

Just got my board in the mail yesterday and after plugging it in and setting everything up I noticed a fairly loud humming noise. Turns out the chipset fan is unbalanced and is really loud. If I stop the fan, my machine goes from "darn that's loud" to "is this thing on?". Two questions...

That's completely incorrect. $600 for water cooling is ridiculous. Look at your own post, you have only $400 accounted for. That leaves a $200 case, which has already been determined to not be the value of an AW case previous in this thread. Also, that's still too expensive. Go take a look...

Let's do a little comparison here. http://www.alienware.com/Confi...mp;SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT Cpu: Fx-55+ Mobo: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Ram: 1 gb Corsair XMS GFX: 2x 6800 ultra HDD: 74 gb W. Dig Raptor Optical: NEC 16x dual later dvd +- Built in liquid cooling 510 W Power and Cooling Cost...

Excellent. I wasn't particularly looking forward to spending another $100. I'll run it like this and see how it goes.

I just dropped quite a lot of money buying a system with the following specs: FX-55 Asus a8n (pre-ordered) 2 eVGA 6800 Ultras (pre-ordered) 16x DVD dual layer +/- 74 gb Raptor 120 gb West Dig. Some misc parts that aren't power hungry enough to mention. The psu that I bought...

Oh yeah... I keep forgetting about that forum. Sorry about this.

I just dropped quite a lot of money buying a system with the following specs: FX-55 Asus a8n (pre-ordered) 2 eVGA 6800 Ultras (pre-ordered) 16x DVD dual layer +/- 74 gb Raptor 120 gb West Dig. Some misc parts that aren't power hungry enough to mention. The psu that I bought with it is...

I ordered parts from both newegg and zipzoom on the same day. Newegg had free shipping for everything I ordered (over $1000 worth of crap) and zipzoom had a pretty reasonable, but still existent shipping cost. What got my goat though was how quickly they shipped compared to each other. I...

I just ordered an Asus a8n from gameve. I'll let you guys know how that works out. I'm scared :confused:

When you preorder from any of those sites do they have some sort of guaruntee that you will actually get a motherboard in that first shipment? Or is it just luck of the draw? Edit: By the way, I can't bring up the www.buyxg.com website anymore. Anyone else having problems with that?

I've been reading reviews and whatnot about the A8N, but there is something I can't figure out. Is there some special sort of adapter or molex connector that you have to use with PCI-E to conenct a video card? I remember reading a post somewhere about a guy that burned out a bunch of 6800's...

I've been trying to get my hands on an x800 pe or perhaps an x850 now that they exist but of course I can't find them anywhere. That doesn't matter too much because I'm willing to wait. The normal price for ASUS's x800 pe is around $700 or so from most vendors like monarch and newegg. That...