Recent content by MGrant1957

DP boards... were so much fun back in the day, I had a Tyan Tomcat with dual P166MMX processors. Woot

Video card that only takes up only ONE slot? My new motherboard has a total of 7 expansion slots: x1 PCI express 2.0 x16 PCI express 2.0 x4 PCI express 2.0 open ended ( can take longer cards ) x4 PCI express 2.0 open ended ( can take longer cards ) x16 PCI express 2.0 standard 32-bit...

Do you change relolutions very often? If you want to be able to change resolutions and NOT have dithering artifacts you might think about getting a good CRT monitor. Also, what kind of budget are we talking about? The absolute best CRT I have ever seen/used is what I have now a Sony FW900...

did you read the last post? It IS water cooled.... 2 radiators and 9 water blocks. what I'm wondering is weather putting peltiers on the GPU and VRAM will give me that much of a boost in framerate. And will putting small peltiers on the VRAM will help with overclocking the VRAM a noticible...

Been a long time since I've been in here so... here's the update: New Processor is an Opty 185 New RAM is 2GB of Corsair Twinx-2048-4400PRO DDR550 New watercooling system includes: water blocks for CPU, SB, motherboard VRM, both 7800GTX cards, both VGA VRMs, and 2 custom backside RAM...

I should have been more specific... The Original NF4 chipset mainboards had 2 phisical x16 slots but only had 16 lanes to use for Both of them, if you had only 1 card installed it would run at x16 speed, if you installed 2 cards it ould use x8 for each card. The later boards had the x16 chipset...

with a NF4 chipset... with the NF4 SLI chipset, there are 20 PIC-E lanes, 16 are dedicate to the Graphics sub-system. That being said, if you only put in 1 card in either x16 slot, that card will operate at 4GB/s that is x16 speed. If you put in a second card the board will split the bandwidth...

a few sugestions.... I knew going in that I was going to be overclocking so I bought 2 1GIG sticks of Corsair's great/cheap stuff the Twinx2048-4000PT sticks. these are rated at 250MHz with timings of 3-3-3-8-1t with just 2.7v. using these I can just set the HT multi to 4, crank the FSB/MEM up...

I have a pair of BFG 7800 GTX 256 OC's and want to water cool them. I bought a pair of blocks from DD made for SLI but they only cool the GPU and the bottom RAM chips. does anyone here know how I can water the RAM on the TOP of the cards? or find waterblocks that are made for the purpose? any...

Quote from thr "guide" up front : What if you just raise the CPU Multiplier? Lets say I raise it to 11. CPU: 200 FSB times 11 = 2,100MHz, or 2.1GHz. correct me if I'm wrong, but 200 times 11=2200 or 2.2Ghz Also, just to clear things up a bit.... the HT link is a high speed 16-bit serial link...

Does anybody out there listen to an electronic engineer? PC Power and Cooling does make very good single-rail Power supplies. However, that does not mean that modular systems are junk. any good power supply will have full-wave rectification. several large capacitors for filtering the output of...

Sorry, but... my first rig was an intel 8085 running at 0.477Mhz, it had a whopping 2K of memory. I had to wire it one chip at a time, and write the BIOS is Asssembler. what a beast!

Each lane gives you 250MB/s, both upstream and downstream, for a half GB/s total. and yes, PCI-e II is comming soon, it will double the clockspeed for double the bandwidth.

As far as CPU speed goes, I am already pushing it to 2.5GHz by running the Twinx2048-4000PT at the rated 250MHz. I have already pushed it to 10x260MHz or 2.6GHz with stock HSF, but as I said I WILL be using a 115W Peltier Thermo-electric cooler along with water cooling on the CPU, Peltier...

to max out my system. Here is what I have so far: ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe Motherboard (BIOS v 1016) AMD Athlon X2 3800+ @2.0GHz BFG 7800GTX OC 256 @460MHz/650MHz Hope to get another one for SLI Twinx2048-4000PT 2 gigs but one has bought the farm, besides I want something faster. Plextor...