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    Single stage inside Case

    Yes I do have kill-a-watt(s). I need it for measuring power draw, heatload tester, etc :) It consumes 220 Watt or so Idling, 250 watt under extremely heavy load, and about 600W+ at initial startup (which goes down quickly as temp gets lower) It is in ball park of what Vapochill LS or mach II...
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    Single stage inside Case

    I made bracket that bolts psu supporting it. I am currently in process of contacting lian-li to make proper bracket for such use.
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    Single stage inside Case

    If you remember what I went through before, this is upgraded version of previous prototype. I am still waiting for my condenser and compressor for finilizing the design so using old mach II condenser and compressor with newer revision of chilly1 evap is utilized. Froster-X is there but it...
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    PrimoChill ICE coolant

    Is this a candidate for submerge cooling? That would be the question for me. Price seems right on top of some exotic oils that I've seen that could be used for such purposes.
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    Dlink gaming router - a gimmick or real thing?

    Well, gave it shot and for last couple of days, I noticed improvement on my 2 packet 8 phone quality while using VPN and wife streaming video. Most noticeble diff was the packet 8 phones but it remains to be seen. Another nice thing was vs Netgear 624T, (the super-G version as well) which has...
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    Dlink gaming router - a gimmick or real thing?

    http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=370 Looks cool and seems to have some good reviews but I want to get first hand experience answers from here...
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    How is Gaming on a LCD 20--23 inches? is it bad since you cant run it at its native resolution?

    Don't know but I am getting one soon. Currently using 22" CRT but I have no problem running any game @ 1600x1200 now with SLI setup. Might as well abuse the power.
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    6800 GT PCIe Retail Available

    Think I will wait till eVGA stock it themselves. They may run out of stock but the never price gouge.
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    OCZ EB Overclocking Database

    3.0v about 250 3-3-2-11 3.2v about 255-3-2-2-11 3.2v about 260-3-3-2-11 These are pair of 3700EB (1gb total) on A64 with 1T
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    Watercooling w/ Newcastle or Clawhammer CG?

    Clawhammer. my memory does fast timing past DDR 500 fine and you can always adjust FID to match memory. You can oc for mhz but you can't add cache. Besides, my MB does past 290FSB fine so least of my worry is the limitation on FSB... (3.4 Clawhammer here... doubt I will get 50% even on phase...
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    How come LCD's are still so expensive?

    Err... wanna give it a shot with my 22" mitsubishi playing UT2004? :P Quite honestly, decent 20" LCD is north of $800 and can't be really good gaming one for me yet. (I do get annoyed a lot on fast action game and find things to blame... which I can't now :P) When it hits $600 mark with...
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    HELP Overclocking a AMD 64 3200+ with a K8N-e Deluxe

    PSU, OCZ powerstream. Bar none so far from what I see. Only challenger left is PCP which is about $100 more. Next in my list usually is enermax noisetaker except... it doesn't work with OCZ DDR booster. Memory, OCZ 3200-3500-3700 EB. Worth every penny for A64. K8N-E is awesome board...
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    My 3400/3500 debate?

    I sincerely hope it is. It definitely does have more voltage adjustment than any other socket 754 board. But when it starts going to extremities (volt modding, etc), that is when the true nature of board shows up. Both volt modded etc, I got 50mhz more on my clawhammer on Asus than Chaintech...
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    My 3400/3500 debate?

    Did you even READ what I wrote? The reviews are old news ever since new bios. KN8E of course has locks (its NF3-250). The problem with 215-220 mhz bus was due to not having LDT multi in bios which has been fixed. I actually get more oc out of this board than VNF3-250. Read and use the...
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    My 3400/3500 debate?

    I can definitely recommend Asus KN8E. Underrated until very recent bios update which fully makes this oc'able board (minus memory voltage limtied at 2.7v :P) Stability is top notch and features too. Only thing that isn't quite there yet is the VDIMM which is pretty easy vmod (or ddr booster)...
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    What memory compatible with Chaintech VNF3-250?

    Samsung original is quite stable with 3 dimm slot filled up. OCZ EBs are just awesome on this board. Crucial ballistix seem to work well too but not as good as OCZ in my case.
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    Unofficial ASUS K8N-E thread

    GART removal for SP2 reinstall will really screw you up. You can uninstall just about all stuff but that... I spent few days figuring it out myself.
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    "This Is Not The Intel We All Know"

    AMD won't be jumping too high either. Here is why. 1) Not much advertisement. 2) Playing catch up game with Intel on whatever marketing they have instead of being genuine innovator (they may be but they don't say so in easy to understand way to customers) 3) Not accepting the fact that they...
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    when will >I< be able to download XP SP2 ??

    It is out, at least to MSDN subscribers... (universal subscriber here). It seems to be final cut of CD image (no more beta:P) That makes me think download will be out in less than a week. (Typical time range MS works with on this kind of releases). So far, it seems to work ok. However, there...
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    Flashing the BIOS for ChainTech VNF3-250. NEEDS help.

    Err, not for the HTT speed but for the maximum speed your expensive memory can achieve :)
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    Flashing the BIOS for ChainTech VNF3-250. NEEDS help.

    Reserving it for Exos to arrive atm. Few quarks are kinked out but the lack of multiplier adjustment do hurt. Chipset is decent for passive but I would have expected something slightly larger... which they can't do with the AGP PCI slots... It is okay so far but really need bios revision to...
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    Flashing the BIOS for ChainTech VNF3-250. NEEDS help.

    What did you get? :P You passed your problem to me... eh? Did you happen to keep original bios that came with MOBO? I know you flashed it to dl one from chaintech. So far, I got up to 223FSB 100% stable based on how I install stuff... (man do I miss intel's easiness on these). Not bad on...
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    6800GT watercooled overclocking, how high?

    http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=36541 Bit of reading but it is good stuff.
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    6800GT watercooled overclocking, how high?

    Yeah its just a feeling ;P My 6800GT with bios mod is chugging along at 445-1.15. Even with variation of chip binning, I think they will need the extra volt to make sure it does run at speed they claim to :)
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    Best 6800GT??

    eVGA myself. The overclockability is all hit and miss anyway. At least, if something bad happens, I can go to their office in hurry and strangle few. (actually, they are close enough where I can drop by for support etc. My previous nVidia based cards were all from them for that one reason).
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    6800GT watercooled overclocking, how high?

    Have a feeling it isn't as stock as you think. Probably bios is different to use 1.5v vcore instead of 1.4v typical of ultra. (1.3v GT) We will find out once someone buys it and supplies us with bios :P
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    Overclocked GT vs overclocked Pro

    Well, the guy forgot to do bios vmod for GT :) Or even hard voltmod. Now, one thing i noticed was that they both use same samsung GDDR... must be voltage limitation on memory for GT not to be able to go far or latency.
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    Cleared CMOS, now will not boot

    Some early 875p 865 on intel board had these problems with certain memories. My suggestion is to get some other memory and start computer. Its nice idea to keep old junky DDR memory arond just for this purpose or spare 2nd rig which you can cannibalize for short time :P
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    Between these 3 PSU's I'm looking to get...

    Heh, they make 600W verision of it now. Amazing stuff. I have the 380w coolergiant line and it gives even better rail than my 550W antec truepower :P Can't recommend better PSU myself other than the fact it doesn't seem to like my lian-li pc v1000 case... (physical dimension problem with...
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    Samsung PC-3200 CL3 256mb $40 each from newegg.

    http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-147-108&amp;depa=0 $40 a piece on PC3200 CL3 memory. Now, the real kicker is, I was able to memtest86 pair on 2.8v for DDR515 (3-3-3-8). The pair I got from newegg only a day ago. Just ordered 6 more myself :P
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    Is 21db pretty close to silent?

    Not really. Even so called 12v panaflo L1A's makes too much noise for my bedroom comp. I run it around 7-8v which i call quiet. Not even silent. I consider quiet computer to be something I can't hear at all in middle of night about 6 ft away. Anything below that becomes marginal for over...
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    Where on earth can I get 100% rubbing alcohol for cleaning left over thermal pad crud?

    Best way to remove "gunks" safely for me has been electronic degreaser. Takes things out in no time and shiney clean. I still use alchol to make sure there is no residue of it just in case (it really its grease well such as thermal paste, etc :P)