Ok, so yeah, your core speed is 765Mhz, but when not playing a game the core speed is dropping to 400Mhz, which is right, because if you had only one monitor, the core speed would drop even lower to 157Mhz or something like that. You can test this by just disabling the 2nd monitor briefly (Show...
Try making sure that the core/mem speeds is running at 400/1050 for dual monitors. I know that mine idles with one monitor at 157/300, but that's not fast enough for two monitors.
you don't need to connect sound cables internally - the vid card will pass through audio over hdmi independent of your sound card, but you will have to select different audio apart from your regular audio (whether a sound card or onboard/motherboard audio)
Walmart - $399 PS3 but comes with a $100 gift card so there's your ps3 for $299 - Hurry starts today?
http://ps3mods.blogspot.com/2008/11/80gb-sony-ps3-for-299-at-walmart.html
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=1026142&sourceid=36108722981208272862
The new date is Sep 15 - on Steam anyways - other people may have gotten it early from bestbuy or wal-mart, as posted elsewhere in the thread.
Tis ok, I just installed Oblivion Lost - makes it looks like a whole new game!
I get dumped to the desktop occasionally while playing TF2 - I thought that sometimes it's because I got kicked due to someone having a reserved spot and the app doesn't know what to do - appcrash - my fan is set at 45% fixed, so I'll give your suggestion a try and put it down to 40% - although...
I have a GFXChilla too but I've never installed it yet...
Did you have to install the memory heatsinks? Do they stick? Heard/read they don't stick very well...