SUMMARY: Very quiet, but very subdued performance; Lasagnas are great coolers for GPUs and Northbridge chips but needs serious steroids to be of real interest as a CPU overclocking cooler. TennMax makes a great little CPU/chip cooler called the TennMax
I’ve been having continued slow-motion breakdown of Win2K on the A7V133; I’ve had failures to boot, and rather substantial chunks of my Outlook Express files vanishing for a while. Thank you all for your suggestions. Right now, there is a
Somebody asked me about “bang-for-the-buck” comparisons between video cards. “Bang-for-the-buck” works well when improvement is linear. You’d be happy if I gave you $100, and twice as happy if I gave you $200. However, most of the time, at some
Finally got the email from somebody “defending” the free market system I’ve been looking for. The consumer *MARKET*, not Nividia, killed the S3, 3dfx, etc. competition by buying the hell out of TNT and GeForce cards. And now the market
SUMMARY: Vantec’s latest Socket A heatsink is another credible alternative to consider. The good folks at Vantec were kind enough to forward their latest Socket A entry, the brilliantly named FCE62540D; the name alone just conjures up incredibly cool images.
I had been looking for a place that had a definitive run down on the issues of this board, and finally found it the day after I hosed my bios. Shortly after the release of the MSI K7T Pro2, Anandtech
I have been running a watercooled system for quite a while now and I haven’t seen any setups like mine. I am attaching a couple of pictures. Notice that I drillid holes in the case for the connections to the
I’ve been beating up this board for about a week; last couple days, it’s been swinging back.:) Until a couple days ago, I got an average of about 1 BSOD per day. Last couple days, it’s been more like 5
I have been reading up on this, and outside of two areas, there is little current benefit to this card. Those two areas are nice-to-haves, but they don’t justify the cost. Those areas of improvement come from tweaks and tricks
Next week, there will no doubt be tons and tons of hype about the GeForce3. We’ve chosen not to be a part of that, and this bothers some people. Their comments boil down to, “I agree with you, but review