Holy crap!

Hello,
i do like big monitors, so which one would you advise, say up to 24" ?

Another idea: Why not buy a beamer, and use a 4x2 yards big wall, or a roll-out slide screen ? And a nice Dolby 5.x sound arrangement ? Now that would be really big ... :whistle:

Greetings,
Catfish
 
Siggi said:
From vague memory somewhere around 45c or 55c.
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Haven't looked at the design of the Formula II yet, but the Formula SE came with a NB waterblock preinstalled. Nice feature, but I didn't set the board up for liquid cooling. One of the things that hurt stability during overclocking was the rather toasty NB temps (they were up over 50 @ idle) even with the cpu clocked @ a mere 3.6 Ghz. I did have to increase NB voltage a notch or two to remain stable at that speed, which obviously had something to do with it.

That NB waterblock comes with rubber caps on the two copper spouts, so if you're relying on passive cooling, all they do is trap heat inside the block assembly. My temps dropped about 5c by just removing the two caps. Rigged a 50mm fan up to blow directly into those two spouts and voila!! NB temperatures dropped much lower and to very acceptable levels, I run the e6850 @ 3.6 Ghz for everyday use, and they don't exceed mid 40's even under heavy load.

If your board features the same design, try pulling those caps, and give 'em to your cat to play with. You'll have a happy feline and a nice cool northbridge chip.


Cheers,

Parky
 
Parky said:
Haven't looked at the design of the Formula II yet, but the Formula SE came with a NB waterblock preinstalled. Nice feature, but I didn't set the board up for liquid cooling. One of the things that hurt stability during overclocking was the rather toasty NB temps (they were up over 50 @ idle) even with the cpu clocked @ a mere 3.6 Ghz. I did have to increase NB voltage a notch or two to remain stable at that speed, which obviously had something to do with it.

That NB waterblock comes with rubber caps on the two copper spouts, so if you're relying on passive cooling, all they do is trap heat inside the block assembly. My temps dropped about 5c by just removing the two caps. Rigged a 50mm fan up to blow directly into those two spouts and voila!! NB temperatures dropped much lower and to very acceptable levels, I run the e6850 @ 3.6 Ghz for everyday use, and they don't exceed mid 40's even under heavy load.

If your board features the same design, try pulling those caps, and give 'em to your cat to play with. You'll have a happy feline and a nice cool northbridge chip.


Cheers,

Parky
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Cheers Parky. Fortunately my board is passive-cooling by default, so no probs there. :)
 
Catfish said:
Hello,
i do like big monitors, so which one would you advise, say up to 24" ?

Another idea: Why not buy a beamer, and use a 4x2 yards big wall, or a roll-out slide screen ? And a nice Dolby 5.x sound arrangement ? Now that would be really big ... :whistle:

Greetings,
Catfish
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Fortiesboy plays OFF with a LCD projector...Wicked.

I used to service and Install them in the late 90's...They were good then, for watching Footie or playing games.

I assume they are even better nowadays though
 
Siggi said:
Specs:



Game at:

54451
2560x1600x32
x16FSAA
x16AF
V-Sync off
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Siggi
I'm curious as to why you have such a high AA at that very high ( must look great ) resolution.
I wouldn't have thought it was needed. ? Or is it the case with CFS3 and OFF that the higher the settings the better it runs.
As you know, the general rule would suggest that with the AA not implemented the FPS would be even higher? Have you not tried that to see if it is so?

Please let us know

TIA
 
I've just tried it with zero FSAA and AF and while I saw no difference in FPS I did see rough edges on certain items (wing edges and windscreen). :)
 
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