timxirish

@blitz6804 and Tater Tot:
Interesting information. Wasn't aware that pipe orientation made a true difference, but I guess it makes sense. Briefly researched how heatpipes worked at one point anyway, but yes, the tips will definitely be pointing up once my mounting problems are solved.

For now I decided I'd slightly clean my rat nest of wires and close up the case. Before I closed it up, I made sure to at least put in my old stock heatsink.. Dont want to accidently turn my rig on w/o any cooling period anyway. .. Going to be using my Lanbox as my main PC until then.

So far the lanbox is doing leaps and bounds better with my old HSF (Tt Blue Orb II), as temps have dropped from 78c to 38c. 40c shaved off my temps aint bad.

The cooler sure isn't anything stellar, but it's probably the best this case will hold (as far as I know). That's fine with me anyhow-- this is more of a backup/mobile rig.



@suicideidiot321: Very cool. Best of luck to you on getting that rig up and running.

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Timxirish, oh man you're telling me. Those plastic pins hardly even work. This is like the only thing I dislike about the DFI boards...the placement of the nForce 4 chip. Half the time I can't get around my video card with my HR-05. Arg

Suicideidiot321, I look forward to the build. I remember some of those old Sempron 64 2800+ (1.6Ghz) were overclocking beasts. Hopefully your board offers some nice OC'ing features.

Good luck

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blitz6804

Right, I said that (emph addeded):I thought the mounting problem arose when the tips faced the GPU, not away. Does your case have an inverted motherboard mount and so the pipes must face the GPU?

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BlackOmega

ARG! Whats going on with OCN again? Nothings updating for me. When I click new posts I get posts from 8 hours ago

And now I can't find the spot to report problems either...

EDIT: Found the report bug page.

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Blitz, inverted motherboard? Are you referring to BTX style? It looks like to me he has a standard ATX style case.

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Hueristic

Sounds good, Actually I think I have a cod4 copy but never installed it.

maybe we can take a vote each week on the game to play?

We will send you to the other team to help us!

HEY BO, Are you Owning TF2 with your 939 System!? That would be great! And Thread Worthy in the games section!

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Hueristic, I use to play TF2 none stop on my Opteron 170 and 4850. The game was solid. Loved playing it on my S939. Mach4 map baby

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Well I dont have COD4 (yet), but I do have world at war that I got with those Asus GPU's I ordered for folding. Which are actually sitting in their respective anti-static bags.
Might trade one of my copies of WAW for COD4.

And yeah, with the 4870's I get great frame rates. As for owning it depends on the map. If I've played it before I usually do really well, maps like orange_x3, 2fort.
It also depends on the team, kind of sucks if you don't have any medics to heal your heavies, or any (good) snipers to take out the other teams snipers.
last night my team was getting owned pretty hard due to the teams being hella stacked and maps I haven't played at all or often.

But there are games that we can play that are free, like the BF1942 demo. Its MP and you get one of the best maps in the game, Wake Island. It's actually a really fun game, although if there isn't a lot of people there's not a whole hell of a lot of action.

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I haven't played TF since it was a mod for hl1.

Well Iused to play DOD for years (On realistic servers) And I was the Sniper you didn't want to run into! So I think I could get back on track (Unless it's a bunny hop fest). I don't play games like Q3 that are 100% stress fests. AFA COD4 I'll check l8r (I think thats what it is, 5 cd's?)

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Hueristic, man I miss Day of Defeat. It was pretty good before it went to Source. It still is a good game but it's much different now hehe.

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