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any firewire or usb drive will work. My mac laptop only has a combo drive so i use a sony external with firewire.
she will get more performance from a fire wire drive. has a faster transfer rate than usb 1.1

hercules71185 wrote:If I remember correctly, then you have vista. Nvidia drivers are known to cause conflicts and causes vista to crashe.

Yes Nvidia drivers may cause vista to crash but so does installing vista , But drivers will get better. I'm running a XfX 8800gt and it runs everything i throw at it.

Well changed to yet another mobo. Did a bios update on the striker 2 (well i tried at least) and it blew up :evil: . wouldn't post past detecting dram. So after much cursing and some cooling off :drinkers: (didn't want to throw the board once i pulled it). I yanked the board bought it back to tigerd...

I have read that thread several times. Yes it is very useful and infomative . Though my voltages are about .2 over what he is running. My temps are still nice and low though. should i be concerned with the higher voltages as long as my temps don't get to high.

The only way i have been able to stabilize my q6600 at 3.2ghz is to run at over 1.45 volts. Is that to high? My water loop is still staying plenty cool 41-42 degrees under full load. Anyone have any suggestions.

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Stollie

Mmmm cookies and dental. Damn i should have come to the darkside long ago.

Apoptosis wrote:The extra memory just wont be used... It will not impact performance or stability at all. The only negative to it is the fact you are giving it power (volts) and it's not being used. That's it to be honest.

Thats what i have heard. Though i wanted to check with all you profesionals

Quick question. I built my system with 4 gb of ram to run vista. I'm REALLY REALLY not impressed with vista so i switched back to xp pro (much happier now). Will the 2x2gb of ram affect (in a negative way) the performance since only 3 gb is recognized?

No worries Dan i know how it goes . Ended up using #6 sheet metal screw and the worked great. At stock speeds I am running at 34c across all for processors per coretemp under load, should get a bit better after a bit of burn in.

Well after being an amd guy for a few years now, I have switched to the "dark" side. Got my q6600 up and running today, smoked my x2 6400. At stock speeds the x2 only scored 108xx on 3dmark06, the q6600 scored 122xx. Bumped the fsb to 300 bringing my cpu to 2.7 and scored 132xx. Can't wait...

The plan was to pull the air through. What i meant to ask (brain doesn't always communicate with the fingers well) is how to physically mount the fans to the rad? The rad has screw holes but they are not threaded. It would be damn near impossible to get nuts on the screws. I was thinking about using...

What is the best way to mount fans on a radiator. I have a black ice pro 3 rad and 3 yate loon fans. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

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Stollie

Well i got the board up and running and it was reporting temps of 119 degrees celcius! :( So i went to tiger direct by and replaced it with a striker 2 formula. I figure ill bring that board back and get some pc 8500 for the striker rig. I'm gonna leave the heatpipes alone on this board, I may pick ...

I just picked up an asus p5k mobo. The nb has a passive heatsink with a heatpipe running to another heatsink on the back of the board. I am planning on running this system under water cooling. Should i just cut the heatpipe to eliminate the nb sink and leave the rear heatsink or should i remove both...

Thanks for the input guys! I decided to pick up a asus p5k. Later this year i will prolly jump to a nicer board with ddr3 and upgrade my video again.

*Edit* Changed my mind bought the asus striker II with the nvidia 780i chipset

I am looking for a mobo that supports pcie 2.0 and is good for oc'ing. Would prefer not to go over 150 bucks. If you have any suggestions let me know.

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Stollie

Yes but they are designed for intel chipset's. I have not checked to see if the span is correct for the m3a been a bit busy. I should get a chance to check on thursday morning. And thanks for the Heads up on the hook loops. *edit* Just checked to see if the parts that came with the block will will w...

I went ahead and picked up the swiftech block for the nb. Looks like it will work well. Ill be able to use the existing wire hooks from the stock heatsink if i can get it loose. Hopefully i can convince the wife to let me purchase the rest of the stuff this weekend.

How the hell ya all doin?! Im doin great myself. Well to start i found the forums while reseaching a new mobo the asus m3a. The current rig that I am running is the asus M3a with the X2 6400 be, a XfX 8800gt alpha dog extreme edidtion 2x2gb of G.skill pc6400 4,4,4,12. As of right now i am an amd guy...

I really dig the the results you have gotten with your system. I'm running virtually the same system except i have the alphadog extreme (640 core 950 mem stock), And g.skill memory pc 6400 2x2gb. How where you able to attach the waterblock to the nb. Im a bit new to oc'ing, so any advice you may hav...