No offense, but I would call going from an x38 to a 780i a downgrade, not an
upgrade, unless you must have SLI - and even then I'm not sure of the
value/performance ratio of two 9600GTs vs a single 9800GTX.
Water cooling should not be required in a non-overclocked system these days,
even an
I agree 100% and I was trying to get that across in my note. The X38 is
head and shoulders better than the 780i. It's just that I had a burning
desire to play with SLI.
I think the crashes are certainly heat related as they will only happen
whilst I have been playing games for a while.
I am
Look into your case and make sure your airflow is working well. This means
get the power supply cables and mother board cables out of the middle of the
case and try to hide them. Also, put some quality fans in the case, may make
it loud once the fans turn on full, but at least it will keep the
I would run a utility to record GPU temps while gaming to gauge what kind of
heat you are outputing before crashing. The 9600GT's run relatively cool and
again I seriously doubt heat is causing the issue. What NV driver are you using?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:19:41 -0600
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What's your case? Most (all?) of the 680/780i designs I've seen made pretty
extensive use of heatpipe coolers. If your case uses an inverted mount, like
a number of Lian Li cases do, those heat pipes don't work worth a damn. They
supposedly have a wick inside to allow for inverted operation, but
I heard service pack 3 was released to manufactureTrue?
Anyone tried it yet?
Gary
It's already out in the wild, just not Microsoft. Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008
14:48:38 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] XP SP RTM? I heard service pack 3 was released to
manufactureTrue? Anyone tried it yet? Gary
Tried it. No big changes. Those running hacked versions get boned (of course)
as it picks up almost all wpa hacks I've seen. Breaks older versions of
Autocad, so beware of that. Nothing big changes as near as I can tell.
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Haven't tried it yet, but I downloaded it off MS TechNet. It was posted to
TechNet and MSDN yesterday in the Top Downloads section (not the normal
download center). I hate that they do that, but they use Akamai to
distribute new popular items...which seems to be incompatible with their
traditional
