Recent content by ttron

So I just bought a new core 2 duo, an Asus P5B motherboard, and 7900 GT. I installed everything using a few parts from my old computer, power supply and hard drives. Booting up initially got me into the bios setup and such fine, but after restarting, I don't even get to POST, just a blank...

JRW, thanks much for the advice. I'll try that in the morning when my roommate isn't asleep. Hopefully that'll save me 30 bucks :-)

The temps I listed were with the case off, no pci cards remotely near, and fairly good circulation. I dont know where the ambient sensor is, but with the side of the case off, is it really possible that a 60C reading could be accurate? I'm pretty close to just ordering an NV Silencer and...

See, the other thing is, I've been having problems with countrstrike source for months now, so I can only assume it thinks it's been running at 120C for months. If it really has been running at 120C, then I'd think it would be smoking by now, but it still works perfectly in everything else (just...

I think you misread. It's running 80C idle. 60C was ambient temperature (which seems wrong to me).

I've been having problems playing counterstrike source lately, having the game randomly freeze for several seconds at a time, then resuming normally, (with no artifacts however). Running Process Explorer shows a cpu spike in DPCs, so I know it's a driver/hardware problem. After looking at the...