Recent content by J3ph_42

I think the M2N32 is pretty similiar to the crosshair (unless I'm thinking of a different model?) so I was hoping this would be a good upgrade idea.

Still mostly P4's here. Mostly from Dell. A few Pentiums D's and a few Athlon X2's and Core2's that I put together as low power budget machines. They're really stingy though so I feel like the difference in power draw would be a good reason to get more low end athlons and core2's.

I've got an original crosshair, I could get a Phenom 2, (Say the X3 720) without getting a new motherboard? Right now I've got a Brisbane 3600+ running at 2.8GHz, but it might be holding back my Radeon 4850?

I can really just put the whole thing in some tap water for a while? (How long? Hot? Cold?)

Just got a new Eclipse. Spilled mt dew on it and now the U and Backspace keys stick horribly. I pried those 2 keys off and prodded around with a qtip dipped in rubbing alcohol, but that doesn't help much and they soon go back to sticking just as bad. How do I take the keyboard apart? I tried...

Can anyone verify whether that is just a typo? $120 for a BE X3 is really tempting assuming it really is a Black Edition.

I suppose hot was "in relation to the temperatures of other GPUs, all with stock cooling" It gets hot here during the summer, and I don't know what the wall is with the 4850 before I run into artifacts or crashes. I have a bunch of spare AS5, so maybe playing with the stock cooler is worth a...

I have bought the card (MSI had one bundled with a copy of Grid, couldn't pass that up), and I think I'll probably get either that accelero cooler or another vf900

Is this a heatsink or a rapper? :confused:

Did those ram heatsinks come with it, and are you able to cover all the ram chips, voltage regulators, etc?

Well, it is a matter of degree, really. Take the VF900 vs. the Duo Orb for example. They're both all copper, but the VF900 does what it does with significantly less mass. I had looked at the duo orb but wasn't sure.

Reviews have convinced me that a 4850 is a good budget upgrade for my 8800GTS 320 (anyone want to buy it? :cool:), although it runs really hot. What kind of cooler (or cooler reviews) should I be looking at? I don't have a liquid cooling system, so it has to be air, and I prefer something that...

Using rivatuner already actually. I believe it is set to 100% at that temp. I'll check when I get home. Case is a P180, with the fans replaced with SST-120's.

OCZ Gamexstream 600w

Weird, it starts artifacting at only 62*c, but it doesn't get worse over time, and I can keep playing (certain textures just look weird).