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    Zalman Cool Tower

    During WW2, German liquid cooled aircraft on the Eastern Front (Russia) used pure ethylene glycol as a coolant, a major ingredient of modern antifreeze. There was no water mixed with the ethylene glycol. To prevent damage to the engines from the coolant freezing, the Luftwaffe used to build...
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    Zalman Cool Tower

    HEY!!! What is that? Looks like a hydraulic oil heat exchanger. I'll get me one and anodize it black or a deep violet. Kev
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    Zalman Cool Tower

    The other day I was in a store and saw a rig running with the new cooler from Zalman. This is one sweet-looking system. Take it from me, I'm a robotics engineer and know "sweet" when I see it. It uses a 2 ft tall blue finned extruded aluminum water tower and a pump. No noise from the pump...
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    New system to build, need some info.

    Thanks for your info! Much appreciated! Kev
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    New system to build, need some info.

    Thanks, Legend. Yeah, I just read that sidebar in CPU magazine on the NForce 4 chipset. I have the NForce 2 on my ASUS board and like it. Supposedly, ASUS has a Nforce 4 board already in the consumer ppeline for a December (?) launch. I like the hardware firewall that Nforce 4 offers...
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    Computer Exploded, game over.....

    What??? I've built over a hundred PC's in the last ten years using the brass hex-shaped standoff screws. Never one problem... :confused:
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    New system to build, need some info.

    Looking for a little advice. I currently own a rock-stable A7N8X/Athlon XP2700-based system with an ATI Radeon 9700 pro GPU and 768Mb of PC3200 DDR ram. I'm a 39 year old gamer, and want to move to the next level in anticipation of Half-Life 2. Had no problems with running Doom 3, artifacts...
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    FAKE MSI SLI board !!!

    I did notice ghost images of several different portions of the board while reading the review online last night. There are two images of a retaining clip of some type shadowed or "ghosted" on the board. You guys ever notice how some manufacturers will mask or retouch photos to hide what they...
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