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    Future Watercooling Project

    ok, thanks for the info. :) I have to admit that my 680i sucks when it comes to Quad OC. My P35 Asus P5k OC'ed my q6600 to 3.6, rock solid. Only problem was MAJOR issues with harddrive performance.. I guess we'll talk again when all the new goodies come out..
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    Future Watercooling Project

    OK, that makes sense.. but if I were to build it now with mu current setup and then transfer to the other one later one. My current build is EVGA 680i SLI Q6600 @ 3000 XFX 8800GTX SLI 4 x 1GB DDR2 800 ram bouhc of HD's. Can one big loop handle all that? or do i need 2 seperate...
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    Future watercooling project

    Nevermind this post, I reposted. The real one is in Cases and cooling. Thanks.
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    Future Watercooling Project

    Hi, I'm planning on getting a new system next summer with whatever's cool at that time.. Something like Nahelem and some Nvidia GTX 280 SLI (or AMD equivelent).. But you guys probably get the picture. It will be all new hardware from scratch. I want to start planning now so that when i buy...
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    CRYSIS was so awesome! (Got some screenies. Big 56K warning)

    The game was freakin AWESOME, but short.. They should have created more.. Can't really put words to it, but there was just not enough.. Pretty much all the new games just have the feeling of being "just not enough". The gameplay was awesome in every way, even though my 8800GTx took a crap...
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    Crysis single player demo

    First run in Vista was a total disaster! First of all very difficult to get the game to run for some reason, but who cares.. The performance in DX 10 was terrible. Around 8 FPS with everything on Very High and 1920 X 1200.. Very sad.. This is with the 169.01 drivers from nVidia...
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    Crysis single player demo

    The SP demo is out today for the ones who preordered the game. With my rig at 1920 X 1200 @ high in Xp with the latest beta driver 169.01 or something like that i averaged a little less than 30. I turned a few settings down to medium (2 or three of them) and it ran around 30 average. It's...
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    ---------- Quad Overclock Thread! ----------

    That depends on the water cooler. If you have a custom made with a triple 120 radiator a good block, some monster fans etc.. It's always going to beat out top end aircooling unless you're putting an AC unit blowing full speed into the case. I love my ThermalRight 120, with a Panaflo M1A (87...
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    TAT & Speedfan Temps

    There are a lot of different things that can affect your temps. For example if you have good ventilation in your case, or if you have the side door of the case open, or if you set up the damn thing on your desk. Plus every processor is different. You can also try the new RivaTuner. It's...
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    ---------- Quad Overclock Thread! ----------

    Yeah.. It's a G0. I got it from Tankguys. They guaranteed it. Great processor. I'll see if i can push it further. The only thing is that the Load temps are 79°C at the highets.. A little high. But then again that's with running Prime95 on all four cores for two hours. Games are a lot better -...
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    Yet another Q6600 OC thread...

    I've got my q6600 G0 to go 3.6 without too much trouble.. i use the ASUS P5K Premium board. All i did was set the FSB to 400, and the rest to auto. I'll to some more tweaking later on to fine tune it. Just need to make sure it's stable and all that. I got the ThermalRight Ultra 120...
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    ---------- Quad Overclock Thread! ----------

    Actually 3.6 stable at 1.5 (1.485 Cpu-z). ThermalRight Ultra120 ASUS P5k Premium P35
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    ---------- Quad Overclock Thread! ----------

    q6600: 3.2 GHz@1.25(cpu-z +bios), ThermalRight Ultra120 ASUS P5k Premium P35 I'll try to push a little further this weekend, and when the weather starts to cool down a little. I'm also on the original 0204 bios.
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    I have Vista on the Raptor, and XP on one of the WDC WD250KS-00MJB0 drives.. I ran HD tach, and on the first WDC WD250KS-00MJB0 disc, I had no performance drops.. This is the disc with XP on it. The other one had a huge dip at 120 GB. Everything else was perfectly fine. I ran the test 3...
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    They are all Western Digital drives. Except one which is Maxtor. Let's see here. With al the numbers and all that crap.. WDC WD200JB-00EVA0 on USB (IDE) WDC WD200JB-00GVA0 ***** IDE - Rest is SATA WDC WD200JD-00GBB0 WDC WD250KS-00MJB0 WDC WD250KS-00MJB0 WDC WD740ADFD-00NLR1...
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    let's see.. I have mostly SATA-I HD's, but I think i have one or two SATA 2 drives as well.. They are configured as IDE, and connected to all the red and one black connector.. or 4 red and 1 black. I'm using the latest non-beta 0204 bios. It's the one it shipped with. So far it's going...
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    Q6600 G0 Temps

    Which program did you use to measure the temps?` Tryr TAT (Intel Thermal Analysis Tool). I believe it's one of the better ones. But hey.. That's a freaking awesome OC!! Congrats!
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    Ok.. Finally some good news!! I RMA'd my board and recieved the new one. Good thing I got it, since my old MB died on me.. I installed XP, and then Vista (for crysis). And so far everything is working smooth. I have to say that installing XP and vista was faster on my evga 680i, but...
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    No signal!!

    Ok.. I have a problem. I just installed my ASUS P5K Premium, Q6600, and my trsusty 8800GTX, but there's a problem. After about 1 min my monitor says "No signal". After another minute with that big grey box in the middle if the screen, the monitor restarts and it goes away. The thing...
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    Direct X 10

    OK.. so what if I rant a little bit. Deal with it. I should be able to post my opinion, as you should be able to post yours. I reserve my right to disagree with a lot of what's out there. the previous fps thing with the divisions and all that crap.. who cares if my match sucks. It's a...
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    Direct X 10

    No.. I disagree. For me, Vista is not that great. Ok fine, it runs ok. But I would take XP over Vista ANY day. Vista is bloated, still lots and lots of bugs in different games etc. But this is not supposed to be a Vista vs XP thing. I was attemting to get a a cross the point that MS should gibe...
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    Direct X 10

    Vista is crap. It should NOT be necessary.. It's turning out to be ME all over again. Vista can turn out nice, if they really start to fix all the small issues. To be quite honest I love XP. It's a great OS. Vista is just too damn bloated. And the fact that they cant make DX10 for XP...
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    8800GTX makes me cry

    I went from a dual 7800GT to a 8800GTX and the difference is not even funny. I can run most of the old game at 16 FSAA.. depending on the title. I love this card. I was just hoping that DX10 would not suck as much as it does.
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    Direct X 10

    Yes. I did try the new drivers. A little improvement, but not what it should be. But just look at any review out there. The only game that I've seen so far that does not yank down the performance is BioShock. It's the same with DX9 and 10.
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    Acer X241W

    Now that I've had the monitor for a short while I must say that I'm very happy with it. The viewing angels are more that adequate for my taste, and also movies and games are great. Just finished Bioshock. Game was stunning, even though some crappy textures here and there, it was great in 1920X1200!!
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    Direct X 10

    I can see that point, but still.. 50% off the fps? That's still lame if you ask me. Even if it a port to DX 10, they should take the time to optimize their software better. But that proves my point that it is not the hardware's fault. It is poor software that's the problem.
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    Direct X 10

    Ok.. I'm getting kinda sick of reading all these review and oither info about DX 10. So all the previous info before it was released said it was going to save gaming and make it faster, while increasing picture quality. And what do we see? Even with Nvidia's fantastic 8800 series and ATI...
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    Bioshock

    I have to say I'm a little disappointed in Bioshock.. First off, I got the game though steam. I preloaded 100% of the game, and waited patiently for 3 .p.m local time, when the game was being released. Then at 3, I tried to enable/activate the game, and nothing.. so a few more tries and 15...
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    Acer X241W

    What's the big difference between the TN panels and the PVA?
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    Acer X241W

    Yeah I have no idea about the panel. Both best buy and acer are very skimpy with the info on the screen... I must say blasting someone in quake, or walking around in Far Cry is fantastic with this screen. Even my girlfriend who only checks her email dropped her jaw.. The difference from a 20"...
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    Acer X241W

    Just gor my first 24" LCD. Big upgrade from my Dell 2005 20". Got it at best buy for 400 bucks, which i though was not too bad for a screen with 6 ms response (ok.. I know it's not really 6 ms but hey.. whatever) and 1920 X 1200 resolution. Colors are descent right out of the box, refresh...
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    OK.. Never mind.. I guess the board was bad.. I finally installed windows XP, and what do you know, it all went bad. IO errors and extreme sluggish performance.. I'm RMA'ing the board on monday. Hopefully the next one is better..
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    Alright.. I got the board to work.. I only used 1 momeory stick while installing. It worked just fine. I still feel like it was slightly slower than my 680i setup, but hey.. it works.. I plugged everything back in place and it is still up and giong. Thanks for the help and advice.
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    Hey.. The MB came with the latest BIOS from ASUS 0204 or something like that.. I've got an Enermax 620 Watt modular PSU. I never had a problem before.. It's just kinda weird.. The RAM timings were all on Auto, and the temps of the cpu was 35°C idle. No problems.. I used the...
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    Oh yeah.. I guess I can tell you guys what's on the new build.. ALL the same hardware, except the new Asus P5k Premium. That's it.. I'm at a loss. Any help would be much apreciated.
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    ASUS P5K Premium problems

    Ok, here is my question.. I just recieved my Asus P5K Premium today.. Totally exited and everything... so i take my computer a part (full list will follow), and put it back together in the new MB. The old system worked flawlesly, but since I'm upgrading to the new q6600 soon i needed a...