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    First to last computer?

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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    I got the silencer 4 in today... WOW! I am impressed. The images from newegg and other sites I had tried to research this on were not nearly enough to show what this thing is. Covers all of the ramsinks and is an amazing piece of equipment. Have not been able to test it out yet, but will be...
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    First to last computer?

    I like that site! LOL... reminds me of the first days of my own computing. I still remember when I was 6yrs old and built a calculator on the computer (following directions of course)
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    Thanks! I am really hoping it helps a lot. I had so many problems with this computer, Have been through three motherboards, two power supplies and two hard drives. Finally figured out the problem to be based in the hard drive shorting out. What a pain in the arse! I really hope the ATI Silencer...
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    What was your first really great pc game?

    THE BEST!!!! lol... I had this on an Amiga machine
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    *Update* I juse purchased an ATI Silencer 4. The system turned out to be dead due to a faulty harddrive causing a short in the PSU and in turn frying the motherboard. MSI is replacing the motherboard and newegg is replacing the harddrive. All should be in within a few days and I will post temps...
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    First to last computer?

    I see lots of OLD skool guys and a few new skool guys. My systems listed in the first post are also a limited number. Not much for the upgrades etc. Right now I have 6 machines in total and still growing in number. The oldest one current at the house is a Celeron 2.2GHz E-machines (used for the...
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    First to last computer?

    What was your first computer? And either give a list of the machiens you have gone through so far, or just the most recent machine. I started off on a C64 when I was 6yrs old. Amiga machines followed. First PC was an old HP 75MHz machine. Stepped up to a 333MHz Celeron back in 1998. In 2000...
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    What was your first really great pc game?

    On the Commodore 64 ZORK! Yeah I see a few old timers here as well! lol Another great classic on there was Indiana Jones.
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    Cutest/Sexiest female name that you've heard so far?

    Well what is your name?
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    So my girlfriend is going to see her ex tonight.... *UPDATE 3*

    Maybe a day late and dollar short, but if your g/f is keeping this troll around. It is more than likely testing you. She wants to either a.) see how you will react to the whole ordeal and trully wants some free space or b.) she really thinks of you as a walking door mat. Either way I am pretty...
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    Turn X800 Pro into X800 XT PE with Bios Flash

    If you have gotten rid of all drivers already from previous installations and totoally re-installed the drivers for the card...Sounds to me like a probable issue with the pipeline. If it is functioning fine at 12pipes with the higher clock speeds, and not at 16pipes. I would bring it back down...
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    I am aware of how ATI ships them, and I am also aware of the temps my video card was reading with ATITool after I clocked it up to an XT PE. Nearly 80degrees and the system would shut down or reboot. While this problem MAY have been more related to my dead PSU, I have done some research and MSI...
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    I think my PSU is dead?

    I do not often get power failures here or even surges. I do have a high end surge protector on the system though and the PSU itself has a built in fuse that should blow if it were a surge. I beleive it may have been a case of overheating or porr solder joint on the board after some closer...
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    Turn X800 Pro into X800 XT PE with Bios Flash

    I beleive I found the problem. My PSU was making the noise. The sound of something rubbing against the fan, was likely a component slowly dieing within the PSU. I am ready to kill right now.... Thanks for the help tho witht he OC. I will be going back to the X800XT mod after my PSU is replaced.
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    I think my PSU is dead?

    Don't think it was a surge. I think the PSU was faulty. Needless to say I am miffed that this nice new 550watt PSU is a pile of crap
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    I think my PSU is dead?

    I am pretty certain it may indeed be the PSU. I have another machine to work with, but will be able to try that out tomorrow. I will try out that PSU in this system as well as vice-versa. I am praying it is just the PSU, but I am still miffed if it is, because this is not a cheap PSU.
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    19" lcd for gaming

    I bought a Samsung 910T and this thing is great! I have not had any issues with ghosting at all even with a rated 25ms response time and so far it has given a crystal clear pic. You can pick one up thru newegg.com for around 425USD currently.
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    Cool deal! Let me know how it turns out. Right now I am dealing with another ISSUE on this machine. I think I am going to cry now. Anyways... do let me know how it turns out and I will maybe gather the data from you and others and see about making a new thread for cooling the X800 cards
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    I think my PSU is dead?

    I have noticed an odd noise comming from my system over the last two days. I initially though tit to be something brushing against one of the fans in my case. I stopped each one carefully to determine the noise was comming from inside of my power supply. Today I was running Prime95 to test out...
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    Excellent news! Now if only I can actually get ahold of my neighbor that works at the shop to pick me one up. (No I am not lazy, but he gets me discounts and has to special order it for me. (hint off subject....but NICE monitor Akira... identical to mine. I love it, plan on getting a second...
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    True true. and good points. I am having my shop here order a Silencer 4 for me. I will post results on the cooling and possibly even purchase a GiantIII just for comparison. Seems my temps are a bit higher. My system temp at idle is 20C CPU is at 46C. I do have it overclocked a bit right...
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    I have a 120mm fan doing that sucking already, so that is not a major issue. I was more concerned over the ram being kept cool. I know the GiantIII is big and ugly, but it has 8 individual ram blocks which is somewhat attractive.
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    Turn X800 Pro into X800 XT PE with Bios Flash

    The fan on my Sapphire card is dying? Ok here is the deal. Since I ran the mod to the card the fan has been workin govertime a good bit. ATITool took over for a short while in the fan control to keep the temps down as well as could be, but low and behold I opened up Generals to play for a short...
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 vs TT Giant III???

    I am trying to research into this right now and have not found much for an article anywhere on this. Opinions? Which actually cools better of the two? Noise is not too much of a factor for me. I simply would like the better performing cooling solution for my ATI X800 Pro (clocked to X800 XT PE)
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    Overclocking my AMD FX53 on MSI K8N Neo2 Plat mobo...

    What is a decent avg. on the 64 FX-53 processor temp? Currently I am staying around 53 C. I am thinking this may be a bit high, but I want to know what a stable limit would be for this system here? (full specs in sig)
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    Asus X800XT PE arrives! Benchmarks added

    I have an X800 Pro VIVO flashed. Someone asked for 3DMark05 benchmarks. I am hitting a steady 5650 with it underclocked. Stock won't handle the heat, so I had to keep it under a bit. Once I am able to add in a thermal solution I am certain this will be a number of the past for my card.
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    Turn X800 Pro into X800 XT PE with Bios Flash

    I had thought to wait, but was curious if it would help right now. Best I can clock is 501/526 without overheating. It will be another month or two before I can pick up the Silencer 4. Thanks Mega... You Rawk! *edited* I just did a minor OC to the CPU. Am running now at 2.67GHz. Ran a test on...
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    Overclocking my AMD FX53 on MSI K8N Neo2 Plat mobo...

    Actually no it was not. I will be disabling that now and trying it again. I was not aware the cool n quiet would do that? Thanks for the info. Will post after I make the changes and let know what the outcome is. *edited* I turned off cool n quiet and am now running a full on 2.67GHz system...
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    Turn X800 Pro into X800 XT PE with Bios Flash

    Cool I will look into that. Until then I am curious if possibly adding on some Arctic Silver thermal paste may help? Is it worth my time? Or should I just wait until I can get the silencer?
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    Turn X800 Pro into X800 XT PE with Bios Flash

    My Sapphire card does not have ramsinks on it and it is running fine at 501.75/526.50. I will be installing either a vga waterblock though or possibly the thermaltake vga cooler kit soon. using ATITool you can increase the fan speeds on the chip itself and it keeps things a bit cooler as well.
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    Looking for an AMD64 mobo with onboard LCD

    FrozenCPU-LCD Displays This should do you right. Temp sensors and cables even for plug in to your motherboard. I am sure FrozenCPU has more along the lines of the pci cards etc for this. Thanks for asking that. I think I may wind up getting one of those L.I.S. 2's from that page. I may have...
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    Looking for an AMD64 mobo with onboard LCD

    Good call!
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    Overclocking my AMD FX53 on MSI K8N Neo2 Plat mobo...

    Tried these identical settings and after boot up it is showing a 6x multiplier only? WTF? *edited* Nope... just the MSI Core Center garbage that I was using to check it was showing only a 6x multiplier. Checking thru other sources now and showing a 2.67GHz processor. I might try to bring it...
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    Looking for an AMD64 mobo with onboard LCD

    I bought that Soltek board for my girlfriend's computer. So far it has been easy enough to work with and pretty solid. If you really want that digital boot code read out. It is not a bad board for it. The MSI K8Neo2 PLatinum has a led readout display on it as well, only it is not numerical...
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    Turn X800 Pro into X800 XT PE with Bios Flash

    Wanted to add in real quick. I know it has been said a number of times, but do make sure you clock about 20 under if you do not have additioanl cooling. At least on the Sapphire cards. Mine heats up FAST at default XT PE Speeds. Will be installing VGA waterblock in the next weeks to come for...
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    Overclocking my AMD FX53 on MSI K8N Neo2 Plat mobo...

    I am running just about the same system as these guys here. AMD 64 FX-53, MSI K8Neo2 Platinum and 2GB Corsair XMS TWINX 2048-3200RT. SO far the best I have been able to get has been 205MHz x 12.0 with a 1.65vCore. I brought the vCore as far up as 1.85 stable, but it appeared to have little...
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    Turn X800 Pro into X800 XT PE with Bios Flash

    I stumbled upon this forum via google and I have to say thanks to you guys. I have had Saphire ATI X800 Pro for a little over a month now and had no idea it was so simple to unlock its potential up to an XT PE. Could not be happier with this mod. Scored a 5598 on 3dMark05 after the install...