Recent content by LoneWolf_53

I must say I'm a tad baffled by some of the test results as they don't strike me as reliable. For example TG Kryonaut is listed as having a thermal conductivity of 12.5 while Arctic MX5 is less than half of that at 6.0, yet the effectiveness results are both listed as 4. Does it not stand to...

Thanks for your input. Yes I'm aware opening up will void the warranty but I'm OK with that. I just want to regain the performance they are capable of.

For what it's worth I realize this is an old thread, however I thought I'd add an observation that may be helpful to some. I am running three of these H110i GTX coolers all cooling Xeon X5680 CPU's (yes I know they are older but they work). These computers run a distributed computing project...

I wouldn't do it!

Is this a new build? I mean it could be the motherboard too but it does sound like a bad connection and it wouldn't be the first PC with a broken USB port.

4GB for $40 sounds like a bargain to me. Then again I recall paying three hundred bucks for 2GB not so long ago. :)

If you are missing drivers you should be able to confirm that simply by glancing at your Device Manager. Press "Windows Key + Pause/Break" key you should have a window pop up then go to Device Manager and under the "view" tab choose "show hidden devices" If anything is missing there should be...

Are there other SATA drives in your PC that already function? I'm not sure what's going on but when I looked at the Dell site for that model of PC I do note they offer some SATA drivers and one of them is for 250GB but they call it a Maxtor Utility. If the hard drive is recognized as you say...

I was curious when I saw this post so I went and played with my Sabayon Linux PC as I have the cube set up on it with four desktops. I put an icon on one but it also appears on all the others when I switched to them. I think it doesn't work for the reasons you already stated.

some ideas: -reseat each stick of RAM a few times, sometimes it's just poor contact, and double check that there isn't some dirt or junk in a RAM slot. -clear CMOS, by removing the board battery for few minutes, -remove all RAMs and insert them one by one, restarting the system after each...

I agree it sounds like time for a reformat and clean install. There's plenty of legitimate open source software to be had on the web. ;)

In my opinion for air cooling since money is not an issue I would go with the Megahalems and Noctua NF-P12-1300 120MM fan(s). That gives you something that should the urge hit will be capable of handling some decent overclocking and if not will do a really nice job of keeping your CPU as cool...

You sure that's a Dell? I keep getting Gateway hits for that number. If it's a Dell then provide the complete model number or service tag number for the unit please.