By Rants&Raves on Feb 23, 2006 in Electronics, Hardware | 0 Comments
CPU wouldn’t register for some reason (I don’t have media encoder 9 on here or something…) but everything else did which is kinda funny, INCLUDING my piece-o-dump card I’m using. A decent video card number runs well into the thousands and I’m only pulling a 193 out of this ancient. Click here for full report. […]
By Rants&Raves on Feb 22, 2006 in Electronics, Hardware | 1 Comment
Well, I completely recommend Motherboard Monitor for any computer modders out there. Don’t want to spend $25-$50 on an LCD screen on the front of your computer (or if it sits on the ground and you don’t want to bend over to check it) there’s always MBM. The version I’m using (5) allows you to […]
By Rants&Raves on Feb 22, 2006 in Electronics, Hardware | 0 Comments
http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-wat-80.html http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-wat-34.html So I’ve thought about a water cooling kit for the past couple days and here’s the cheapest solution I’ve come up with so far. All I would really need would be a CPU cooler and a GPU cooler. The memory will keep cool via it’s head spreaders and the hard drives would keep […]
By Rants&Raves on Feb 17, 2006 in Electronics, Hardware | 2 Comments
BAH! this < ---clicky is what I've been putting up with recently. Classic signs of card overheating. My heatsink fan no longer works, and the card is almost hot to the touch. I've tried all kinds of secondary cooling, but I just need a new heatsink for the GPU...and some more cooling (can't have too […]