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Use the DOS flash utility. Flashing VGA or Motherboard BIOS's in Windows is stupid. Unless the card is physically broken, you will always be able to flash it. In this case, you're lucky, because you still get a picture with it, so you dont have to use another GPU to flash it. Just use the DOS...

Excellent chart, the one on the bitcoin wiki has tons of entries for the various cards, which can make it a little difficult to get a good idea of cost\performance.

Yeah, Nvidia only supports CUDA on 8 series GPU's or newer. I'm assuming that you would need CUDA in order to do hardware accelerated H.264. If your CPU can't handle playing a video, then it's time to upgrade. Even a low end Intel Atom can handle 1080p H.264 without issues.

PCIE is completely backwards compatible. It sounds to me like your PCIE slot or controller is damaged. I would call\email ASUS and attempt to resolve the issue, but from the looks of it, it's probably going to have to be RMA'd.

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If it's dead, and there is no warranty, it won't hurt to try. :D

Rack hardware isn't exactly designed with noise in mind. A 38x38mm fan is going to be loud regardless of which one you get because they have to spin at a very high RPM to achieve a meaningful amount of airflow. I don't think you should try and replace the fan with a quieter one, you'll probably...

I use to use the Xigmatek Dark Knight, and for the price, it was a great cooler. The Balder should perform very similarly to it as well. The designs look nearly identical save the fins. I wouldn't go with the Tuniq Tower. It has been around for ages, and it's really starting to show. Given the...

Depends on what you want to do with the fans. The only time you need good static pressure is if you're using the fans on a heatsink or radiator. If they are simply being used as a case fan, than static pressure is irrelevant.

Still sad to see that there is no really affordable hex cores from Intel right now.

Kind of like the buildings in BFBC2 :(. I think better physics will come in the future, but don't think it will come in the way of PhysX. AMD is gaining too much ground in the GPU world for game developers to lock their physics engine in to one brand of GPU acceleration. You can't really do deep...

For the price, it's a pretty small case. The fact that the cable management holes can't quite accommodate a longer PSU, and the huge mess of wires coming from the front panel makes the build look like that of a cheaper case too.

It shouldn't be a huge difference on a HDD. A good AES implementation can do around 100MB\s on average CPU's. Seeing as you're on a i7 930 at 4ghz, I dont think there will be any noticeable bottleneck whatsoever.

P4's wern't multicore. L1\L2 caches have always been seperate on all x86 chips to my knowledge, and P4's did not have an L3 cache IIRC. TJ Max on most Intel chips has stayed right around 100c for quite some time now.

I think their would be significant driver hurdles. Not to mention you would be forced to lug around that bulky enclosure if you ever wanted to game elsewhere (if not, then that would defeat the purpose of a laptop that can game in the first place).