Recent content by arjo_reich

No joke, I paid over $985 for the pair of 8800 GTX's that I purchased 12/31 from newegg.com. That's not even 60 days ago already and they've lost over 40% of their value. Oh well, no point in letting it bother me. Just wish I was about to pull the IHS off a $300 card and not a $489 card, lol...

The 8800GTX has an IHS over the GPU chip...AS5 would be fine. Unless you have the webos to attempt to remove the IHS and cool the GPU chip directly... :cool:

I put a pair of DuOrbs on my 8800 GTX's last week using Arctic Silver's Thermal Adhesive thinned with just a touch of Arctic Silver 5 - to make them less permanent. Well, two days ago when I broke down the rig to install the new IFX-10 backside cooler in conjuction with my TR U-120E I had two...

Ceramique is a great non-conductive thermal compound - if you have the foresight and the diligence to cure it properly. Takes upwards of 500 hours of cure time and during that time you need to be stressing, idling and then turning off your computer (for a thorough cool-down) at least once a day...

+1 on this, really...unless you're going to significantly upgrade one of your displays. I have dual Gigabyte 8800 GTX with dual Samsung 226BW (both "S" series) and because the max display - gorgeous display, btw, hehe - is 1680 x 1050 like yours. When I run the cards in SLi mode, the main...

I've been running Vista x64 SP1 RTM (the one that just shipped) for about a week now and I've not had any problems thus far...

[WISHLIST] Supports at least four SATA II / 300 PCI-e (preferably 4x or 8x if cheap enough) Supports RAID "0+1" - not RAID 10 Supports 512kb sized stripes (or larger) I'm having a little trouble with my Samsung SH-S203B Optical Drives and the aficionados over at cdfreaks.com suggested...