Recent content by Deshman

This isn't so much a project as a recovery operation; my motherboard was cast into the fires of hades and it could only find salvation in the holiest of waters. I've taken it from overheating to under-water. After a while of putting up with newer games becoming increasingly laggy on the E8440...

Hey guys, It's been a while since I've been here asking for help but I've recently been doing a case transplant and this has involved draining/modifying the loop to fit the new case. You'll all be happy to know I've done away with the Thermaltake case in favour of an Obsidian :P The trouble is...

It's been a while since I've asked you all for some advice but the time has come again whereby I need some of your wisdom to point me in the right direction. It's nearly time for the yearly fluid change and I thought while I've got the loop drained why not carry out some upgrades. Firstly I...

Like the title says, there's a strange noise coming from my pump. At first I thought it was a HDD problem as it sounds quite similar to the noise my Seagates make when you load; that quiet, low but quick, repeated, random arm-seeking noise. After disconnecting all the HDDs in my PC I confusedly...

With one program giving one temperature and another giving a reading 14 degrees higher, which do you trust?

Well it's been four years now but my trusty old Gigabyte 939 is giving up the ghost, the chipset fan died a month ago and I didn't think the heatsink would last that much longer either. There is the option to fix it and hope but with equipment this out of date I'm better of making it into a...

I've decided if I'm gonna go quad core it's time to rip out what's left of the old Thermaltake loop and replace it with some better performing bits. Is the D-Tek Fuzion still the best CPU block around or have things shifted a bit? I've got a nice little EK8800GTX waiting to go in too so my...

My PSU just went Kaput today and as Specialtech don't deal with OCZ anymore it's refund only. I was using an OCZ 700W which cost about £80 but if I'm getting a refund I might as well get a good one. It needs to be able to support my future upgrade: Q6600 or faster 8GB RAM Plus my current...

Right well it's post-christmas and there are deals a plenty so it's upgrade time. My current CPU/RAM/mobo are around 4-6 years old so it's time they became a server and died slowly :) I have some ideas in my head, pretty sound but I want to know what would you recommend and why? The upgrade...

Is there really that much of a difference in DVD drives at the minute? The reason I ask is both of my DVD drives are simultaneously dying and are silver drives in a black case (eww :p). I was considering SATA as I have a spare SATA port, (but this could also be used for a vista drive). I...

Not sure if this is the correct area for this or if you've reported this already (apologies if you have) but apparently some revisions of the new 7200.11's are reporting completely incorrect cache sizes. I didn't notice but when I checked it out they were right. A mate's drives were even...

I've just gone and bought myself a drive bay reservoir but my Thermaltake kit has a smaller reservoir attached to the side of the pump, is there any advantage or disadvantage to keeping both reservoirs or am I better off just having one?

Well as might be blatantly obvious by the Thermaltake system, this is my first attempt at WC. I used to have my equipment in an Antec P180 but there was just too much to fit in there and the case ended up looking like this: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you that I had heat...

A mate of mine recently bought this card and told me he was having problems; in Crysis it gives strange jagged green lines across the screen then freezes. In Hellgate London it does the same thing after about 10 mins. I suggested it may be out of date drivers but after a full drivers update...

I'm running short on space and so am having to expand my RAID, I had my eye on these http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=114450 as I've never had any problem with Seagate before but before I run off and spend my money, does anyone know of two 500GB HDDs that would be faster/quieter?