Recent content by pcweltz

check the heatsink contact with the small NVIO chip as well, some kits were shipped with too thin a thermal pad. Leaves about 1mm of dead air between the heatsink & thermal pad.

I've bought two of these, and neither make any contact with the NVIO chip on my 8800GTX. Kuyt, does your cooler make full contact with the NVIO chip on your Ultra? I'm wondering if there are multiple revisions of the NVIO chip with different sizes/heights.

I want it!

There are quite a few reports of people having memory issues with that board with BIOS later than 1305.....something about the board setting the TRFC value to aggressive. I've seen some forum responses from Asus stating they will expose this value for manual modification in a later BIOS; until...

Why did they load both PCI-E power connectors on the same 12V rail? I keep seeing threads/articles about people running SLI/Crossfire having to run card #2 off of a molex to PCI-E power converter because of this kind of thing. :confused: :confused:

Newegg packing and shipping people definitely have issues.....I ordered an OEM X1900XTX from them a few months back and it showed up with ZERO packing.......just static bag thrown in a shipping box. I sent it back and got a retail pack card; I've sworn off buying OEM products from them....