Recent content by GenPatton

That explains it then. Thanks for the info. For some reason I thought they would have been on a more efficient die and generate less heat. I am going to put a 120mm fan in the Lian Li case this morning, mount it on the side bracket and aim it down at the card. I hope that helps. Thanks for the...

Yes, both of the fans are the stock ones that came with the GPU's. Both are Saphire as well. The bios update fixed the crashes, but the temperature still remains higher than the previous card. Odd that.

What case where you using? My temps average 45 under load. 54 was the highest peak I ever got using Hyperpi. Actually I got better temps with my old 3870, which was weird. How the heck the video card is increasing the temps in the case is beyond me? I thought the 4870 was supposed to be a...

I have an Intel Quad Q6600, batch SLACR with the Go stepping. (If I remember correctly this is a 95 watt 6600 versus the 105 watt stepping) It's overclocked to 3006Mhz, on a 1336Mhz Front Side Bus. My MB is a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P My new Soundcard is a Auzen X-fi Forte 7.1 (Modified OP Amps on...

Your entitled to your opinion and I respect that. But I would like to address several things you say: 1. "TEC and block CANNOT keep up with a good water cooling loop." I already addressed this. Any water cooling system cannot cool below ambient. Technically speaking any Thermoelectric...

"The stock fan is also quite noisy. I'd go with custom water in a heartbeat." I have to interject here. Quite simply I think this person has never ever used the Coolit Freezone ELITE as that is simply not the case. You can set the fan speed to either low, medium or high. On high it is not to...

Sign me up! I agree with onpoint101! This clinches it for me. I have two Motherboards based on the ULI chipset and they are wonderful. (Both AsRock 939 Dual SATA II) I have an A8N-SLI Premium Asus board based on the Nvidia Nforce 4 chipset. I can't say the board is faulty, it is not. But I...

I just picked it up today...not the best time to be asking questions I guess! The regular X800 GT02 can be modded to 16 pipelines no probs. However it is really hard to come by in Canada. This one was $ 40.00 lower so I am a little freaked. It is either a steal or I got hosed. Looks the same...