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I wouldn't worry about it. The heat transfer will be so minimal it won't matter. But just to be sure, if you can take a pic to give me a better idea of what your saying, it would help. I wasn't aware of photobucket, thanks! An update: after installing the card and getting it up to oper. temp. and t...

Well I received the card and installed it in slot 1. Unfortunately, with the card fully seated it DOES contact the chipset heat sink, although from what I can see / feel it appears only one, maybe two, of the "radiator" fins are actually touching the (black plastic trim around) chipset hea...

By going with the ATI card you also have an upgrade path as you could run Crossfire down the road if you ever wanted to pick up a second card. Don't know (yet) if this will ever be important, but.. As for a card hitting the factory chipset cooler it would be close... Looking at the pictures the hea...

Hi, I don't think the ATI card will be a problem with that motherboard. Even if it does, using the second (or third) PCIe slot won't cause any problems. As you said the second slot is only a PCIe x8 slot, but that's still easily fast enough, even for gaming! Thought I had read something about the P...

I'm looking for a QUIET (fan-less), Vista capable PCI-E video card to plug into an Intel Bad Axe 2 (D975XBX2) motherboard. I'm not a gamer, but want to fully utilize the new graphics features that Vista has to offer. I've been looking at two cards, both Asus branded, one Nvidia & one ATI based. ...

I've read the best performance from a S-ATA drive is obtained using AHCI, instead of IDE, especially with drives that are "true" NCQ as the 150 Gb Raptor claims to be. Have you had any experience using AHCI, and doesn't it require a re-install of Windows with a dedicated driver?

Just finished my Bad Axe 2 build yesterday. Secondary SATA (blue) ports were disabled by choice; however, at this setting my hard drive LED is lit steady. Re-enabled blue SATA ports, now HD LED functions normally but I have an unwanted delay while the Marvel ports P.O.S.T. Board was flashed to lates...