Recent content by Liam

What are you guys using to manage AAM on these drives?

I've got a bunch of copies of this game that I'd be willing to part with for ~$5 each, if anyone's interested ;)

:o :(

I'm going to have to disagree with you guys and say an an 800W PSU is cutting it awfully close. The [H] numbers show their 4870X2 quadfire system 686W from the wall, which while still probably doable, does not leave much headroom. I'd suggest springing for a 1000W PSU like the Corsair HX1000.

I would be shocked if 790GX graphics even match an old 9800 Pro, let alone an X800.

The problem is that AMD is stuck squarely in the bargain basement category right now. Have you seen their ASPs? Until this changes, AMD is going to continue losing hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter.

That's actually not a solid capacitor. Solid capacitors don't have vents. It's basically just an electrolytic cap in a solid-cap type casing. Remember, if you see vents on a cap you thought was solid, it's not actually ;)

The bottom line is that the Accelero is by far the best value VGA cooler around. Sure, you could pay $50 for a Thermalright cooler (or similar), but does it really make sense to spend that much on a sub $100 video card? If you don't want to go ghetto, just use the Accelero fanless. My 8800GT...

Zip ties. Works perfectly!

What brand of cap is the exploded one? It looks like a Nippon Chemicon to me, which really should not be failing on you. Thank god that virtually all new (good) boards use only solid caps in the CPU VRM area. I would probably lean towards just replacing the the blown capacitor and the other...

Does anyone know if NCIX is currently shipping the version with the larger fan?

That is a crappy TN like almost all new monitors these days, and not even remotely comparable to this A-MVA panel.

Ok, so that's a disadvantage, are there any advantages to the WZ?

Well, my BenQ FP241W (sept 2007) that I got from tddirect.ca (division of NCIX) a couple days ago has 5 dead pixels, and 4 stuck pixels, so BenQ has agreed to replace it. Unfortunately, they have no FP241W in stock, but they do have FP241WZ. My question is, what do I have to lose or gain by...

You think they open up every monitor they get and test them for dead pixels, and then sort them into 2 categories, one for those who pay extra, and one for those don't? No, that's not how it works. It's basically just an insurance policy that says they will replace the monitor if it had any dead...