Thanks again guys! The performance increase this new card, even if its not top line, has given me is night and day. We are well into weekend stress test two and I played many hours with acceptable framarates (between 16-40+, averaging near 30). Never noticed any lag or stuttering. It may not be...
OK, funny thing, but turning the case upside down dropped the max temp from 100 to 87 in consecutive sessions. Looks funny, but whatever. Good enough until I get another case. Thanks for the tip!
Was just down inspecting my "dead" CPU. Turns out that the fellow I had in doing some web design managed to infect it with a ton of viruses despite McAffee (one of two computers he did this too, the other one was an easy fix). Low level format now underway but I was thinking of just dropping the...
tried Portal again with the case open at full 1600x900 and it looks amazing, but gets way way too hot. Have backed off to 1275 or whatever and it runs at 75C, but now that I know what real resolution looks like I. Must. Have.
So I assume a micro ATX board will fit a ATX mid tower?
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Well, lurking the forums now to get up to speed on hardware trends to find that sweet spot between performance and cost for the next system. Lots to learn.
Actually, putting this new card in (even if not top of the line) jumped my overall WEI from 3.3 to 5.9, my vid WEI from 3.3 to 6.7, and freed my RAM up so that it jumped from 4.7 to 7.1 (same as the CPU rating--had no idea it was such a good processor). Now the bottleneck is the HD access speed...
Hit 91 during an extended L4D2 session. Opening the case dropped things to 80. Friend recommended EVGA Precision to up the fan speed. Thoughts on this plan?
Maybe I should consider it a feature? -- Built in coffee cup warmer
Will keep an eye out for cases on sale. I gave it another brief test spin this am with the PCI slot open and it cooled off much quicker than last night. Still hit a max of 83, unless the max temp didn't reset on launch this am...
Thanks for the extra info ocre. I removed the VGA port (am running with the DVI adapter now) to open up the rear but there are already lots of ventilation along the side near the card's location so I'm not sure how much that might help. After my morning's meetings I'll post up a few pictures...
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