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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    How were you treated by XFX? Do they agree that the board is defective?
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    Since I know, I usually Newegg, but they were charging way more for this board than ZipZoomFly. Agreed about Newegg returns. On one order, I had nothing but problems with power supply and motherboard compatibility, but their automated process eliminated all the headaches of getting replacements..
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    Something's wrong with this HardOCP post as I can't see page 3 unless I go to printable view. Anyway, that's too bad you had a problem with the board. Ironically, I did not want to buy XFX anymore, and purchased my replacement Asus 780i board from ZipZoomFly. I'm glad XFX has stepped up to...
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    UPDATE: After the defective SB cooling on my XFX, I went with the Asus P5N-T which appears to have a better cooling system. The problem I had now was that it would only boot 1/3 of the time. Do these installs ever go smoothly?!? Anyway, I realized it had a very early BIOS revision (0402) so I...
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    blasted error caused double post
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    I appears that my "MCP Temperature" overheating problems stem from the heatsink not contacting the MCP south bridge (NF570), apparently nothing to do with the northbridge. If i push down on it, the temps start to drop immediately, but I let it go and shoot back up. The "Motherboard" temp is...
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    cool thanks. I guess I'll have to rip out all that awesome wire managing that I did. At least it works. I'll update after I get a chance to do this.
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    1. Is this based on your experience with this board? 2. After some AS5, do you think I can run passive? 3. What's a decent temp for this thing? Thanks for the advice.
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    Got mine. Amazingly everything booted right away! My Vista old load worked, but seems unstable so I'll just go ahead and reinstall again. My main concern is the temperature of the MCP. I am a silent pc fan so I wanted to run passive on the NB, but the damn thing shot up to 95C when I got...
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    Found and bought XFX 780i board @ Fry's - Phoenix, AZ

    I saw a bunch of these at Fry's too. I'm thinking of getting this board since I want the extra SATA, USB and firewire headers for my case. Also, my Abit Fatal1ty board has no firewire, the NIC doesn't even work and I think only does 8x8 pci-e lanes in SLI. It was still cheaper than the Asus...
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    My Crysis Adventure (56k...no.)

    After problems even getting the game to properly switch to 1920x1080 (it would not fill the screen have black bars on both sides of the screen and eventually freeze the game, not Vista), I found that if you alt-enter a few times, it will eventually go full screen properly. After updating to...
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    My Crysis Adventure (56k...no.)

    The screens were probably shrunk down in Photoshop so they were smoothed out.
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    My Crysis Adventure (56k...no.)

    I thought I was badass and set everything to very high, but got a slideshow. Ran the auto-detect, which set it to medium and 1024x768 and now I get about 15-20fps. I guess I can forget about running at native 1920x1080.
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    BF2 v1.3: Connection to server lost error. SOLVED

    Yeah Fry's is pretty cool except for the poor service, and poor parking (at the Manhattan Beach one I go to), but it's always crowded. Here in SoCal, every Fry's has a different theme like Alice in Wonderland, H.G. Wells Time Machine, Space Shuttle (full scale shuttle inside), Tropical...
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    BF2 v1.3: Connection to server lost error. SOLVED

    I'd agree that the 1.3 patch is to blame for this since I've really never had any problem, except 1.21(?) which would kick me out of Warlord after like 30 min. The fact that it works perfectly for some, but not all means EA/Dice needs to test on a wider variety of hardware.
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