Recent content by Wxman77

I was thinking it might not fit because the Thermaltake power supply I'm currently using was a tight fit (length was okay, but width was tight). I've heard a lot of not so good things about the Antec power supplies, and I've read on the MSI forums that dual rail PSU are not ideal.

I'm thinking of getting a new power supply since the one I have seems to be a little week on the 12V rail and my system rapidly becomes unstable if I try any overclocking at all. I was thinking about geting either the OCZ Modstream or the OCZ Powerstream, but I've heard that the Powerstream is...

The current cooler has only been on a litlle over a month. The fan I'm using doesn't support RPM detection so I can't be 100% certian about the fan. Cool in Quiet is enabled in the bios but was not in the operating system. My fan isn't pluged into the Mobo anyhow.

I believe the fan is blowing air down onto the heatsink. My room temperature is about 70F, or 21C. I did have quite alot of dust build up in my case, but I cleaned it and my CPU is still running hot.

I guess I really didn't think it was the heat pipes anyway. Just wanted to be sure really before I redid the thermal paste on the same heatsink.

I was wondering if it's possible for heatpipes to suddenly stop working? I was wondering because just a few days ago my processor temp was about 32C when idling and up around 54C while gaming (as reported by Corecenter), but a few days ago my temps inexplicably jumped up about 10C.... the only...

Flashed the bios with the version tech support sent me. Thank you dacull for telling me how to do it from windows! Everything seems to be working great now. The new bios has some very intersting new cpu voltage adjustments. My Ballistix PC4000 memory still won't go past fsb 205 with 2-2-2-10...

Was working okay, (FSB was not overclocking very well though) until I used the live update utility to flash my bios to the latest version. Now my memory bandwidth is halved (only one memory channel seems to be working). I don't have a working floppy drive (I bought one but it seems to be dead)...