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    Who Killed PC Audio, and will Soundcards Ever Be a Thing Again?

    Have you heard an Atmos setup? You may not want to do the setup, but I am running a 7.1.4 setup in a small room in a basement and the difference from 5.1 is incredible. There is a demo of Star Wars battlefront in Atmos and it is remarkeable. It's one thing if you can't or don't want to set it...
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    GTX 670 Waterblock (Full or Universal Blocks)

    I am cooling the VRMs and ram by air. The VRMs had a separate heatsink that was getting air from the main blower, and so I left it on and hope I have enough airflow going to it. The ram was not being cooled by anything. The chips on the bottom of the card may have received some airflow...
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    GTX 670 Waterblock (Full or Universal Blocks)

    The card seems to be running fine. It was idling at 27c with an i5-750 @4ghz in the same loop idling at 32c. At load using furmark, it got up to about 39C after 10-15 minutes. In terms of overclocking, I have a reference EVGA GTX 670, and it isn't terrible, but not great. It seems to...
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    GTX 670 Waterblock (Full or Universal Blocks)

    I haven't done full load temp testing yet, but I mounted a Swfitech MCW82 GPU block on a reference EVGA GTX 670 using the Swiftech G80 holdown plate/mounting equipement. The holes lined up with this plate. I understand the G80 holes are 58.4mm apart. From a review of the EVGA GTX 670 OC (I...
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    Plexi/Metal Scratch Build - Revision

    Some more pictures: The frame of the case before anything is really completed: The motherboard tray: The front fan controls and switches: The front IO panel: The rear of the case: The drive cage: A picture of the fan controller box (with fans) holding...
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    Plexi/Metal Scratch Build - Revision

    I cut the plexiglass using a dremel and a plexiglass cutter, which I used to score the plexiglass and then break by putting the pieces on an edge and applying pressure. This did not work so well for the larger pieces (there were times I cracked a large piece), and so I just used the dremel and...
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    Plexi/Metal Scratch Build - Revision

    The doors on each side of the case are hinged. This was also the case in the prior build (and the case before that, not shown in this thread, that was also built in the same manner and look). I will try to put up additional images showing more specific shots of the case. The box is outdated...
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    Plexi/Metal Scratch Build - Revision

    I stopped keeping tabs early on. The metal itself was approximately $8-10 for each 8 foot piece from Home Depot. The metal is not aluminum, but metal pieces in the "finishing" section I believe, where they have dowels and crown moldings. The case is made up of approximately 30ft of metal, but...
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    Plexi/Metal Scratch Build - Revision

    This is a revision to a prior case I had made. It is a scratch build using metal pieces from Home Depot and plexiglass, with the exception of a reused 5 1/2" bay, part of an old motherboard tray, and a Lian-Li HDD cage. Below is a picture of my previous case using the same...
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    Windows 7 - Downloading file to subfolder in "Libraries" renames file

    Sorry, to clarify, I meant, for example, when you are downloading a file through internet explorer, and you direct it to the Library folders. The big issue I have is when I am downloading an MP3, and then select the subfolder in the "Music" library for say, for a genre, it automatically changes...
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    Windows 7 - Downloading file to subfolder in "Libraries" renames file

    I'm testing out the "Libraries" feature of Windows 7 and seem to have found one minor annoyance which I am trying to determine if it is general behaviour. If you add other folders to one of the "library" folders, say a "Rock" folder in the Music library, and then click on that folder when you...
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    How Many Monitors Should You Have?

    Wtih regards to one big monitor vs. multiple monitors, the one benefit of multi monitors I find is the ability to better manage windows. Using multiple monitors, you can simply maximize applications on each windows, whereas for one large monitor, you normally would have to manually adjust...
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    How Many Monitors Should You Have?

    I currently have 1 x 22" and 2 x19" CRTs. Going back to one is almost unbearable. For anyone using two monitors, I highly recommend the program Ultramon (adds taskbar to second monitor for apps on that monitor, and other features), it significantly increases the usefulness of multiple monitors...
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    XFX 8600GTS fan speed issue

    Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunetly, this was occuring on a totally fresh install of XP with nothing installed but the Intel INF drivers and Nvidia drivers and Ntune.
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    XFX 8600GTS fan speed issue

    I'm running an XFX 8600GTS in Windows XP using both the latest official (158.22) and beta (162.18) drivers. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get fan control to work properly. I've tried using NTUNE to set the speed as fixed. The first issue is that the profile won't load on startup...
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