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    Power cable wire thermal capacity

    Yeah those things get crazy hot. They can range up over the boiling temperature of water.
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    Power cable wire thermal capacity

    ::update:: So I couldn't find any zip ties that were long enough while still fitting in between the fins... actually even the tiny ones didn't really fit either..... and I hadn't gotten any CPU cable since I had decided against using it. And of course due to poor planning I had my motherboard...
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    Power cable wire thermal capacity

    I knew there would be some good answers around here heh. I never bothered to actually look at a PSU since I didn't have one on hand that isn't in use. I was just messing with the cables in a 6 to 4 pin adapter I had sitting around. I should be mounting this thing tomorrow and I think I have...
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    Power cable wire thermal capacity

    Awesomeness, greatly appreciate the input guys.
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    Power cable wire thermal capacity

    Planning on making a simple support for a heavy heatsink in an upright case. I've been trying to come up with the best way to tie it to a steel support beam in the top of my case and I noticed there is an opening along the 12 heat pipes that runs down through the entire heatsink. Your...
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    Power cable wire thermal capacity

    I wasn't sure what thread to put this in.... actually I'm not even sure I should be asking at Anandtech heh, but I thought I'd check in-case anyone around here knows. I'm sure there are some modders around who have some electrician knowledge. I'm trying to find out what kind of heat ... I...
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    Thermaltake A2029 vs. Scythe S-Flex Ultra

    Because I already have these. :-)
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    Thermaltake A2029 vs. Scythe S-Flex Ultra

    I currently have 3 120mm Thermaltake A2029 in my case. Intake, exhaust and Heatsink. I'm also working with an Xclio Windtunnel so there are two 250mm sidewall fans as well. I just ordered a new Thermalright TRUE Copper to toss in my rig (which will be anchored to the case frame around the PSU...
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    simple temp. question

    That's the thread that caused me to come ask at Anandtech in the first place. I've always been told CORE temp is the one to be concerned with. They said the CPU temp in that thread. Yet it wasn't a uniform answer there, someone said CORE instead. Even the OP in that topic is clearly never...
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    simple temp. question

    Anybody?
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    simple temp. question

    I have a constant temp display from Everest in my taskbar and on my keyboard LCD. But that still doesn't answer whether the max for the core or the cpu temp is the one I should be concerned with based on the numbers AMD offers as "max safe temp. range."
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    Is my motherboard compatible with Phenom II ?

    PII X4 940 running well with a ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe here. Required a BIOS update that released a couple weeks before the new chips. (on a side note my 4 sticks of 1066 run wonderfully on it as well despite what the manual says heh)
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    simple temp. question

    Although despite being a simple question I've been hearing different answers. So I thought I'd bring it here. As I understand AMDs max temp for a Phenom II X4 940 is 63c. However people don't seem to agree whether that is the CPU temp or Core temp. and I see something like a 10 degree...
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    Swapping one RAID for another

    Thanx for the input. It was the Marvel onboard RAID on my M3A32-MVP Deluxe. I'm hoping they get back to me quickly, but from looking around their forums it sounds like they have a two to three week backlog on these things before they even get started. I doubt I can go a month with no computer...
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    Swapping one RAID for another

    According to Seagate it's a firmware error that causes a failsafe on the drive to go off making it invisible to the BIOS. No data corruption whatsoever. They offer to manually do the firmware upgrade and send the drives back data intact, no change whatsoever. I actually picked up an external...
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    Seagate 7200.12 500GB or WD640GB Black?

    For the record, Maxtor are made by Seagate heh. I'm looking to buy and have been scanning the same drives myself though. Just had one of those Seagate failures. But I'm still somehow contemplating their newer drives.
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    Swapping one RAID for another

    I have a failed drive in my RAID0 setup, though I expect to be able to recover the drive at some point. (it's one of the seagate barracudas that is no longer visible by the BIOS) Personally, even if it get's repaired and works perfectly I don't think I'll be confortable running on these drives...
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    RAID Drives degrade and drop out on Intel ICH9R

    Might go look that Maxtor up on Seagates page. They've been having issues with a firmware set causing those kinds of problems. They lead to the drives becoming unrecognizable in the BIOS eventually. I just had a Barracuda do it on me last night. your model number there looks like one of the ones...
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    Computer dies in minutes.

    So I finally got a borrowed AGP X1650 from a buddy of mine yesterday. It used a four pin power plug instead of the six pin the X1950 used, which had been on a simple 6 to dual 4 pin adapter. So I started pulling the old card and its power adapter out when I noticed one of the ground wires coming...
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    Computer dies in minutes.

    Resetting the BIOS didn't help. I'm starting to agree that it must be the vid card. I hit up a power supply calculator and even over-clocked that rig shouldn't be using more than about 60% of the PSU. So I guess now all I can do is try to find another AGP vid card to test.... great
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    Computer dies in minutes.

    Video signal goes out within a minute or two. I recently sold my old computer to a friend (who knows little about computers) and about a month later he tells me the video stopped working. He said after it went out it came back on once for about two minutes and since then the video didn't...