Recent content by Zygar

Currently I have an Allied Telesyn AR-250e, and it's useless for gaming if I want to play something like Age of Mythology or AOE2 with my friend, because it does not support forwarding a range of ports - I have to forward each port individually, meaning I can't host the game. And he's on 56k and...

Quiet as a mouse. I managed to dislodge a wire at one point poking around in my case- it got stuck in the fan and it wouldn't start. I didn't notice it not starting up. That's how quiet it is. (I'm paranoid though, and I noticed the temps going up at a rate of about 1 degree every 5 seconds...

I got it working! How I fixed it: I got a 3 pin --> molex adaptor. I plugged my 2 pin connector into that (had to cut off a bit of plastic to make it work,) plugged it into the power supply, and turned on my computer. It worked, and now I'm getting 38 degrees idle temps! W00T! Amazing cooler...

I just found something out from looking a bit more closely at the connector. It seems that the 3 pin connector is a tiny bit smaller than a normal 3 pin connector- I tried plugging the connector into a normal 3 pin fan header- and it was too small. Wonderful.

Silly, it IS the right aftermarket cooler! Anyway, I've taken the plug cover off and plugged the... metal thingys directly into the socket. hopefully it will work. If not, I'll chuck the old fan back on and RMA the lot. The n00bs at my computer store won't know the difference...

Gigabyte, as I said in my original post.

A few months back, I bought a Gigabyte 6800GT. It had a meaty looking HSF and came with Doom 3. I discovered through my testing that the cooling system sucked. It really sucked. 100 degrees celsius under load. So I went and bought an Arctic NV Silencer 5, which arrived today. I've taken the...

I've finished building my new computer, and it's my first computer with a soundcard in it, an Audigy 2 ZS. Anyway, I put in the driver CD to install drivers, and there are 50 different applications! Naturally I got confused, as I have never owned a soundcard before. Anyway, I'm keeping this...

I'm building a computer and I want some good quality headphones for it, for less than $150. Attached microphones are a convienience, but not nessecary. I want a comfortable pair with good audio for long periods of gaming and listening to music. I was originally looking at the Zalman Theatre 6...