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Oblivion finally benchmarked!

I'm an nVidia fanboy and I've got to agree that it looks like ATi won the Oblivion benchmark by far. I'd echo others's complaints -- I'd rather see a standard set of features used to render the benchmark for all the cards, instead of the normal craziness. And I'm not comfortable with seeing...
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- Post #94
- Apr 1, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Half-height hold 'em?

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- Post #2
- Jul 11, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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OMG! Help me, I can't decide!

Get a 17" and save money. :-P
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- Post #17
- Jul 10, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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How much $ would it cost to retire to space??

I wouldn't be surprised if ion drives became more cost-effective within the next 20-50 years. If they took over rocket propulsion, the fuel needs would go way down. If you don't have plans for reentry, the execution might only be a couple hundred million dollars. 70 billion dollars should do...
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- Post #4
- Jul 10, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Half-height hold 'em?

So, the first thing that should be gotten out of the way is that most of the budget cards look like half-heighters, though some of them have a longer brace that I like not at all. Anyways. We've got ATI, nVidia, and Matrox in this market. Matrox is offering their P650 at $250, which puts...
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- Jul 10, 2005
- Replies: 14
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Is 68dB Really Loud?

Normal conversation at 1' is 60dB. +8dB is twice that loud. So think of being caught a food away from a conversation where tones are raised. That's what 68dB is.
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- Post #18
- Feb 21, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Is the Arctic Cooling SILENTCER 64 ULTRA good?

I've got a Silencer 64 TC in my compy back home. They're a very quiet breed. I'm running an Ath 64 3500+ off of it, and the cooler has no problems with that. I avoided Zalman for a couple reasons: Real heavy, and real huge. I've mounted the Silencer 64 TC in a uATX case which didn't have room...
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- Post #4
- Feb 15, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Experimento stage 3

Cute stuff. I'm just happy that I can receive a 10% overclock while keeping my case silent... but if noise doesn't irritate you, live out your dream.
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- Post #2
- Feb 15, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Side air duct worth it?

I'm amazed that such poor advice is given. I forget where I read it, but there was a beautiful article where some reviewers build a system from no case fans to many case fans, and found that the one which cooled the most was not the one with the most fans, but the one with just 2, intake &...
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- Post #12
- Feb 9, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Alternative to Sonata and 3000B?

This is not computer racism. This is not computer racism. :)
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- Post #7
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Just installed ZALMAN 7000B AlCu - Very happy

Was discussed to death here. The XP90 plus noisy fan (or XP 120 plus noisy fan) is going to be the best for OCing and cooling your processor. The Zalman is going to be better for quiet operation with a mildly warm CPU. That's what it's designed for.
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- Post #28
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Alternative to Sonata and 3000B?

I have a Sonata case. The drive door is extremely easy to remove. You press on the plastic near the top hinge and just pull it out. Though if you're opposing the front door on the grounds of aesthetics, go ahead. It looks like you're looking for a black case. If you have your heart set on...
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- Post #5
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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How often do you reapply thermal paste?

I use AS5, because it was packaged free with a cooler and the tube hasn't run out yet. Don't reapply unless you have a problem, ever. If your HS falls off, then reapply; if you change processors, clean, polish, reapply... but otherwise, just plain don't. AS5 is not hard to apply. Just make...
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- Post #10
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Removing Dust

can of compressed air to blow out the dust, vacuum cleaner to suck up the dust.
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- Post #2
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Does anyone have a Zalman CNPS7700-Alcu??

It might be difficult to cut the fins off, but it won't be particularly dangerous to the cooling.
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- Post #6
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Hah, I am so screwed... Enlight case review, plus more on my screwedness.

Because no uATX case is 3/2/2, and ATX cases are too big for my purposes. I'm trying to keep a small, easily-portable case with a 52x cd-rom, a dvd writer, a floppy drive, and a 3.5" bay lcd screen. Since I'm probably only using 1 PCI slot, the smallness/portability requirement goes really...
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- Post #3
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Cable Management

3DCool has a cable which is confused on whether it's 100mm=4 in, 10mm = .4 in, or 40" = 1 m I'd guess it's the first, making it 4" long, but if so, then that picture might well be wrong too. You could e-mail them, they've got a huge Reseller Rating because of their customer service. They...
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- Post #6
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Does anyone have a Zalman CNPS7700-Alcu??

Depends... how much space do you have available above the mobo? Zalman coolers are HUGE, and from ASUS's pictures, it looks like their socket is pretty high up on the mobo... so expect half an inch to an inch of hanging off the mobo, and if you can fit that, then you should probably be ok...
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- Post #2
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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TT Purepower 680W is a great PSU!

Not only could it run that rig fine, it could run that rig SILENTLY... ^_^ Ah, I :heart: teh Antec Phantom
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- Post #12
- Feb 5, 2005
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Hah, I am so screwed... Enlight case review, plus more on my screwedness.

So for my uATX computer that gets shuffled from campus to home to campus to lanparty to wherever, I tried to work with the Enlight EN-2401 case... and while it's cute, there are some major criticisms: 1, no places for silicone washers ANYWHERE. Hey, I like my quiet. HDs should be able to...
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- Feb 5, 2005
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Cases & Cooling

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