Recent content by jamesjohnson88

I just wanted to get a few opinions on a project i'm considering. What I want to do is house 2 360mm radiators in a purpose built box/case. It would be cooled by 3 x 120mm fans sandwiched between them. Obviously they'd be powerful fans so I'd most likely have them on a controller. There would...

My XFX 680i LT SLI recently broke and i'm having to RMA to the retailer, where they will test it before shipping out another one. Thing is, to deal with the 680i chipset temps I installed a HR-05 SLI on the NB and SB, the problem is that one of the push-pins from the stock cooling got mangled...

Ok, last night my computer crashed while browsing the net, not even running at load or anything like that.... Now whenI power on there is nothing but a black screen. I can't even enter BIOS. The comp was only slightly overclocked (q6600 @ 2.5ghz, RAM 800 @ 833) and it was stable. I have cleared...

Ok, for some reason I am not able to change the FSB/Frequency on my rig. The only thing I can change is the multiplier (between 6 and 9). Heres some of the vitals in a screenie - The screenie shows me running a MP of 6 with the bus at 266. The MP is normally kept at 9, I was just messing...

Ok, here is my predicament - The 680i has a hot chipset and noisy fans, that means that I will slapping the NB and SB with a Thermalright HR-05 SLI. The problem here is that i'm not sure of the effect the NB cooling will mean in terms of the size of CPU cooler I can have... Any idea's?