I have 11 of 12 screws for mounting the cooler, backplate with all 4 screws and two screws for mounting to the bracket. It is a reference cooler off of a Powercolor 290. PM me if you want to work something out.
I picked up two of the Gigabyte cards. Using Afterburner just set the core clock +100 and the memory +500. That worked out to about 290 kh/s per card, but it was up against the power limit (38.5). I updated the bios to 65.5 and hash rate jumped to 308 kh/s per card. Lose about 10 kh/s per...
What is your intended use of the HTPC? The Ceton Q looks very interesting and may or may not fit your needs. It is not your traditional HTPC however and has not been released yet. It is more of a DVR on steroids that plays blu-rays. I would expect it however to work very well especially for...
Have you thought about just using an HDMI spliiter out of the video card and running from there to both TVs? Not sure if this would work better than using dual HDMI out from a card. It may allow you to expand your video card selection if you only require one HDMI out...
I bought a tc-p55st30 at the beginning of this month. The ST30 is a lot of TV for the money. If you have a Fry's nearby they have a great deal on the 55" right now.
I like XFX because of the double lifetime warranty. Having a 6990 would force me to buy two more 24" monitors and run eyefinity. I think that the setup would be awesome although the wife would disagree when I start buying more monitors.
Here's some info for you. 2500 will not overclock at all. It is not a picky motherboard thing. You will see failures on any Sandy Bridge motherboard even with small increases in bus speed. To overclock you need a P67 or wait for the z boards. You also need a K processor to unlock.
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It can be used without a cable card to tune unencrypted channels. Since you don't have a cable box now you should be able to get all of the same channels. I don't think you are specifically asking for a tuner that supports cable cards. You have a few options.
1. Ceton - A little expensive...