Recent content by Raku

ya I game, but travel so this was the only option >_<. I am going abroad in college so getting a desktop will have to wait till later. But ya, I have already upgraded the card once, but I screwed it up... OC it to much... Its easy to upgrade, but I just cant figure out where to buy the cards. It...

nope not on mine =) I have already replaced my 6600 to a 7600. But I melted the old 7600. -_-. I have a Alienware Area-51 5550. Ebay only has the higher end cards, but im not sure if it would fit in my computer. Does anyone know if the lets say geforce go7600 or 7700, or even the 7800 GT or...

I have been trying to find the geforce go 7600, or geforce go 7700 for awhile now, but I can not seem to find a place to buy the chip itself. Anyone know a place I could buy the chip. Also does anyone know if the 7700 and the 7600 take the same PSU, and are the same size?

and by cut holes do you mean cut holes in the case itself?

Thanks alot! But I haveone more question. The CPU and GPU commonly come with a fan to cool it down, when installing a water block, do you manually remove the fan and replace it with a heatsink? Lets use a Geforce 8800 GTX for example.

Also with things like cooling a GPU how do you do that?

Basically in my new machine I was planning on doing a liquid coolant setup. I think this will be a good thread for any beginners on Liquid Coolant. My first question is, do you need to buy chips with waterblocks on them? or does that normally come with your kit and you install it yourself. I...

Ya but is it a case of changing the bios on the motherboard. That be a little scary heh

For FFXI you should be totally fine I think =)

thanks alot for your feedback guys!

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I was thinking of getting either an SLI or X-fire mother board for my new computer but I have a few questions about that. For starters, do you NEED to run SLI or X-fire when you have one of those boards? because finacially I was gonna start with one Nvidia 8800 GTX and just run one for the time...