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    Case for 3x120 radiator

    what case that ISNT like 350 bucks will take a 3x120mm radiator and possibly a second 2x120 rad?
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    THE board

    So, what is the "bees knees" for both the Phenom II and the Core i7 stuff right now? i havent seen any stuff about PII stuff but i keep seeing X58 for i7, specifically for the Classified series from eVGA, i fell into that trap with my 780i when it first came out... I'm a big fan of Gigabyte...
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    Bring me up to speed

    ok, i hadnt as much as looked at computer parts since i built my current system which at the time was pretty badass... now im doing photo editing with some "massive" files in Lightroom 2.1 64-bit and the Q6600 just isnt doing it... soooooo... after poking around for a day i see that the Phenom...
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    Worth upgrading?

    anyone think its worth upgrading? ive seen the new GT200 stuff and the new 48x0 cards floating around now... ive really hit a wall cpu-wise for a reasonable amount of money by getting the Q6600.. i had it up at 3ghz but it really wasnt too stable and made a TON of heat even with the Zalman...
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    3rd PCI Express card...

    ive got a 780i mobo from EVGA and im running 9600GT's in SLi on it but i have a 32" TV that iw ould like to be able to watch movies on or whatever i please, well ive also go my old Sapphire X800GTO2 that is unlocked and is PCI Express... now the question is, Will it work? im asking before i...
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    55/55/49/49

    does that seem high to you? it does to me, ive got a Zalman CNPS9700NT with AS5 and plenty of airflow in my Antec P180.... its such a paint to get those screws back into the mounts for the zalman that i dont want to take the fan off and re mount it lol
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    9600GT Succesful Overclocks?

    im running SLi on a 780i mobo with the Q6600 at 3GHz and heres what ive managed to get to SO far... 790/1830/1000 i tried to goto 800 on the core and id get a driver error in vista and 790 seemed to be completely stable in 3dmark06 and WoW and Portal...
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    For Those OC'ing on 780i

    i figured it would leave it at stock since i only jumped from 2.4GHz on my Q6600 to 3.0GHz still with the 9x multiplier... well it was running just fine at 1.22v at stock and my VID is 1.275.... when i checked the voltages it was 1.4v in windows... i just restarted and dropped it back to...
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    Suggest a Case for me...

    Well, im pretty much fed up with the cable management in my P180 that ive had for 2 years and i need to rip everything out of the case anyways to do the padmod to my evga 780i... the first obvious choice to me is the P182 since it has the cable management built in... but since ive already...
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    CPU temp Higher Than Core Temp

    the way i've read some of these guides is that the CPU temp is a rough calculation of what the IHS is or something like that so it should always be lower than the core temps... well on my system in speedfan the hottest core temps (with the 15degrees added sicne its 4.33) are usually 1-2C LOWER...
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    9600GT Fan's Wont Speed up

    last night i was checking temps with GPUz and noticed that the cores got up to nearly 70C and the fans were still WAY down, so i went into RivaTuner and looked and they were at like 30% so i forced them to 100%, well as soon as i did that they would run up to full speed and then come back down...
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    How to test Overclock in SLi?

    with a single card ive always used ATi Tool to stress the system since it was harder on it than anythign else i could find well i tried it last night with my 9600GT's in SLi and using GPUz i saw that only the initial card was doing anything, the other just sat there... stock clocks are...
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    Which Program is Correct?

    right now im running Seti@home and both coretemp and real temp are running... here are the results... coretemp 0.97 is showing 61 59 55 55 Real Temp x64 2.1 is showing 56 54 50 50 which one is correct?
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    Idle Temps @ Stock

    idle temps are 43 42 37 37 with stock cooler at stock clocks.... system is in sig... i didnt add any good compound to it.. just used whatever the hell was on the bottom of the cooler when i got it, 3 little strips of some compound which im sure isnt very good... short of remounting this...
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    Loss in Performance with Overclock...

    EVGA 9600GT KO stock clocks were 700/1773/950 clocks are now at 750/1900/1000 i ran 3Dmark06 two days ago with everything at completely stock clock speeds and all... just to get a baseline, well today i decide to start overclocking and after the first run i notice that my SM2.0 score is lower...
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    9600GT OC Results?

    im running two of them in SLi with a Q6600 in a 780i mobo and i gota score of 12213 3DMarks with everything stock... im seeing where people are getting that with one of these cards now and just a cpu overclock with the same CPU... soo who about everyone posts up whether or not they have SLi and...
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    Suggested Q6600 Cooler...

    well, ive been reading a bit about people overclocking these badboys and seen that the stock cooler just doesnt quite cut it like it used to for intel stuff... soooooo... what kinda cooler would you guys suggest to keep temps down? I Have an Antec P180, yes oldschool, and i keep the fans on...
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    9600GT SLi

    well, im probably going to be told that im a complete idiot buuuutttttttt.... i ordered two EVGA 9600GTKO's to run in SLi on my new EVGA 780i board with my new Q6600 cpu... on vista.... now my last computer build was March of 2005, and im actually posting from it, A64 3000+@2.1Ghz...
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    TT Big Typhoon + ASUS P5B Deluxe

    i know that there were tight clearances w/ the ASRock Dual939-SATA2 board and the TT Big Typhoon and was wondering if i would be able to slap that big beast in the box...
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    Buying P5B Deluxe

    now because intel had to follow some retarded standard that is just causing a crapton of problems ive heard a lot of people having problems w/ finding memory that will boot on boards w/ the 965 chipsets. i am thinking of getting the G.Skill ram that has the green heatsings in the DDR-800 range...
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    comparable mobo for

    i have a 939 Athlon64 right now and im using a ASRock Dual939-SataII because at the time it was the budget bada$$ board... is there something along those lines for the C2D? how about in the SLi market? Crossfire?
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    Cheap w/ wifi and OK CPU

    ok... i am from the land of desktops and being able to buy a barebones box for 100 bucks and have a running pc for 250 or so... i thought that the same thing would happen w/ notbooks but aparently thats now how it is... all i want is something w/ a decent cpu, no SLOW Celerons tho high end...
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    QuadroFX 540.... no driver?

    i just started at my new job this week but i got a badass system for a entry level guy... P4 2.8 w/ HT 1.0GB RAM QuadroFX 540 80GB Hard drive well... ive been working on drawings in Microstation J and i will soon be working on them in AutoCAD 2002 and then after that PDS... well i cant...
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    just to run sims2

    if i could i would drop a GF4 Ti in the box im building but i cant get that on newegg anymore... what would run the sims 2 good w/ a 2500+sempron and 512mb ram
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    05 vs 06

    ok i just finished running 3dMark05 on my system... heres teh compare link http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1725595 Winchester @ 2.27Ghz 1.45v X800GTO2 @ 535/600 16pipes 1Gb Kingmax Ram at 2.5cas ASRock Dual939-Sata2 Thermaltake 420w Purepower <19amp on 12v rail :(
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    Help me pick

    Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI $85 MSI K8N Neo4 $120 Asus A8N-SLI $123 im leaning toward the Gigabyte because i have a K8NS Ultra-939 and it was a good board but it was AGP and ran off the nForce3 250gb chipset and not im on a ASRock Dual939-Sata2... but i sorta wanna stay away from the gigabute...
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    19A enough on 12v rail for oc?

    i have a single 12v rail on my 420psu and its pushing a X850XT, a winnie 1.8@ 2.2 @1.4volts, 1024DDR400, 2 160GB HD in raid, 4 120mm fans, 1 52x CD-RW, 1 16x DVD-Rom, SB Live! 24-Bit, and a 802.11g card.
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    Core Differences

    what are the differnt cores good for... i know of venice, winchester, san diego... i know ther are more but why are they there and whats differnt?
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    FATAL ERROR

    what does this mean in prime95? im at 2.26GHz on a winnie and i can play HL2 fine and CS:S for hours w/ out problems but i get this error.... same thing at 2.35GHz is this a BS error as i have zero problems w/ it or is it "not stable" for something....
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    power needs for oc'ing

    ok ive been tinkering w/ oc'ing everything lately and i have a Thermaltake 420watt Purepower w/ only a 19A 12v rail.... im running two Maxtor 160Gb SATA drives in raid a 3000+Winchester that runs at 1.8stock and if i get bored it runs at 2.35GHz, 1Gb of DDR400 ram that i run at about DDR 436 and...
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    Other Ram Issues by Core?

    are there anymore cores that have these kind of stupid limitations.... had i know this back when i bought the chip in may i would have found another core.
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    A8N-SLI

    exactly as it says... i have a ASRock Dual939-SATA2 and i want to get a better cooler and all the ones i want need mounting holes in the mobo and from what ive read teh A8N-SLI does have them. It also is faster than the ULi chipset that i have now but not by much... or is it? also what...
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    Which one?

    go down a bit... ive changed what i was talking about a little as the title says im wondering about these heatsinks... like which is best for what.... i know the Big Typhoon is well... BIG and very quiet and does great at cooling but its BIG... now the ORBS i have no idea about but if they...
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    BSOD at 270fsb

    ok i got a 1.8 winchester that ive running at about 2.37GHZ righ now using 263 fsb and a 9x multi on the cpu.... i have my ram at a DDR333 and my HTT is hitting 1040-1050 w/ a 4x multi ... i have maxed out my cpu voltage in bios and during a run in 3dmark05 it just went blue and rebooted.... i...
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    whats so great about winchesters?

    ive been wondering whats so great about it... or not so great... i got it way back in april/may and never really heard about anything great about it untill my friend started saying that aparently winchesters are the king poo at oc'ing.... NOW... i have a 3000+ Winchester and it started at...
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    What next?

    right now i have a 3000+ Winchester that runs stock at 1.8Ghz and i have it oc'd to 2.4GHz right now. 1GB of DDR400 ram, Sapphire X800GTO2 at 16 pipes and 535/600 and its on a ASRock DUAL939-SATA2... i think im getting another 7200rpm 8mb cache 160GB SATA drive for xmas so i should be running...
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    score seems low for specs

    http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1586811 i guess i was expecting more that 200 points in 3dmark05 from a 550Mhz increase in CPU speed... my only guess is that ive run outta ram since i "only" have 1GB
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    videocard still a bottleneck?

    ive got a X800GTO2 that ive got running as a X850XTPE 3000+Winchester 1Gb PC3200 i really dont think my vid card is the bottle neck right now... as im starting to play w/ oc'ing my cpu. and ive had it up to 2.3GHz from the 1.8GHz and it gave a 600 point or so increase in PCMark05.
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    Sitting at 2.3GHz

    ive got the HTT at 255 right now w/ a 4x multiplier on it so its at 1020... and i have the memory set to run at DDR400 but when i check sandra its only at 163Mhz/326effective im not complaining about going from 1.8Ghz to 2.3GHz. im just curious as to why my memory would be running so SLOW...
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    better than my 3drocket

    i just got my Antec P180 today and its dead silent for all but my cpu cooler.... all i can hear now is that squirel cage spinning.... when i got it, it was quieter than what i had and dropped my idle temps over 10*F... i thought that was pretty good since i was using a Vantec Aerocool on an...