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toooooo late! I bought a geforce 4 ti 4200 and no longer have the stability problems. Maybe the card was bad, but I saw the recent roundup article that had my old card holding the bottom position in all the benchmarks. Thanks

I recently blew out the OS on my soyo dragon 1.33 GHz system and had to rebuild it. After the rebuild it seems that little bit more unstable in games that has me thinking I need a new video card. After 30-60 minutes gaming I start to see flashing textures or rays shooting out from the mouse...

Who says you can't have your delta and sanity too? I've got a pair of Noisebuster extreme headphones that give me 15 db noise reduction. Cost is $32-40. http://www.toolsforwellness.com/sh120.html?goto

Once I get a decent heatink on the hot stuff, I'm looking forward to trashing a couple chassis fans. The cpu has been floating just below 60 at idle and that offends me so I've feeding it chassis fans on a regular basis. It had gotten so noisy I wrapped the front and top with cardboard from a...

I haven't taken my voltmeter to the header but I suspect that I don't have fan control, just good old +12 on the power pin. the heatsink was some no-name brand heatsink (Aluminum with 20 fin) so when the fan slowed down I started seeing some strange spontaneous reboots as well as a 5-6...

When intelligence, cunning and exceptionally good looks don't get the job done, it's time to get Neanderthal! I whacked the cpu fan with a screwdriver handle and wallah! I've got a 5K rpm fan. I'm watching it slowing down to 4500 rpm right now and I suspect that it'll get comfortable at that...

It's a Soyo K7 Dragon, The only thing I've foung in the bios is the disable for the over heat protection (currently enabled and going to stay enabled.) I'll RTFM :)

Hi folks, Athlon 1.33 woes: My cpu fan seems to enjoy diddling along at 3500 rpms when I'd like it to put it in gear closer to 5000 rpm. I've tried all sorts of weird combinations of chassis temp, cpu temp and cpu cycles to get the fan to go to 5krpm but I can't suss out the magic combination...

Last year I set up my K7v Dragon Mobo with RAID striping for fast harddrive access. I hadn't planned on adding the extra drives for mirroring but they got so cheap that I couldn't resist buying a couple more. Is it possible to run RAID 0+1 on the Soyo Mobo or should I just use one of the new...