Recent content by seanmcd

The original Scythe Ninja fits the P35-DS3P ok. It' gets a little close to the nb heatsink but it's nothing to worry about.

we have 5,000+ workstations where i work. They have a variety of Harddrives (OEM's switch brands constantly) - Maxtors die out just as much as any other brand. We have never seen any one particular brand stand out in that department

I would LOVE to see you solder a CPU pin back on lol... Zenoth - I have bent pins in the past on CPU's and never had any issues. I JUST did the same thing you did a few weeks ago - removing the XP-90 from my motherboard and before I realized it - the CPU was halfway out as well (nearly...

the temps went down 3c after the case change or after getting the fan speed controllers?

Why would you consider that a gimmick? As far as air cooling goes - it gets rave reviews from any hardware website that reviews it. The only thing gimmicky about it is the LEDs And as far as watercooling goes - well if you are "addicted to overclocking" and you want to get the most out of...

what's more important to you? Sound quality or FPS? I doubt you would notice the FPS/CPU utilization difference. But I would notice the sound difference for sure...

watch your temperatures! I had the same setup except with a 0530 Opteron 170 and after about 40 minutes of prime95 on each core at 2.5ghz, 1.4-1.5v - it died. I still don't know the extent of the damage - may be just the board or may be board, cpu, and PSU. But the temps reached at least 70c...

Anybody using an Opteron Dual Core cpu on this motherboard? My good ole' MSI K8N Neo2 just died and I'm looking for a solid NF4 replacement...