Which card uses more power? Which card runs hotter? I'm thinking of upgrading from my 4670 to a 4770 and putting my 4670's passive heatsink on it, but I don't know if the 4770 puts out too much heat for it to handle. Also, I'm curious (since the 4770 has the PCI Express power connector) if the 4770 ...

I bet most companies are like that, I mean how would they know that you took off your old heatsink and put a new one on? As long as you put your old one back on I think you'd be fine.

I have a Sapphire 4670, it has a built on passive heatsink, so I don't have an accelero. And you really can't run this thing completely passive unless you are fine with like really high temps like 60-70c+ at idle. Gaming it goes up. With an accelero it probably would be cooler temps...but without so...

fanerman91 wrote:Oh. I think I'm in the wrong forum. I was looking for info about the ATI 4770 video card (for computers) and it looks like I ended up in the "Get In Stupid Arguments Over Nothing" forum. My bad.

Dude I hate those threads...

OK, so my PCI Express 16x 1.0 slot isn't hindering my performance? That's good to know. I've been considering upgrading to a 4770...but what about a faster CPU/motherboard/RAM combo? My friend has a 4650 but a much faster HP system and his framerates are much higher than mine...so I think some of th...

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4850e 4GB G.Skill DDR2 800 RAM Sapphire fanless Radeon 4670 and this motherboard http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/content.php?S_ID=370 WoW is the only game I play, and it runs at 30fps. But here's the funny thing, 90% of the time it runs at exactly 30.0fps...I think it's because of my slow PC...

nice rig dude

Ya you know I don't want to risk buying something and it not fitting, I'm thinking right now I just want to buy a Zalman, something small, but better than what I have now and know that it'll fit. So which of those Zalmans would you guys reccomend?

http://www.zalman.co.kr/ENG/product/Cat ... nd_Pic.asp

Which of the other 2 do you guys think is best? The copper one or the other blue one?

Looks good, it'll at least be better than the heatsink I have now, but what about the white stuff on the bottom? Is that a thermal pad or something? I would want to clean that off and use my own paste...anyone have experiences with this heatsink?

I'm concerned about how close the northbridge is to the RAM slots. I'm thinking that the thermalright might get in the way of one (or both) of my RAM sticks...I don't want to run at 2GB or 0GB of RAM...I like my 4GB set up I have right now...I don't want to have to change that... Can you guys pictur...

OK, so it's down to the Xigmatek and the Thermalright. The Xigmatek only has 1 model, so that's easy, but Thermalright has 4, http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_page/product_page/product_chipset_cooler.html Which ones will fit my motherboard? Also I have an Arctic Cooling 64 Freezer Pro heatsink, so ...

What about this?

http://www.nexustechnologyusa.com/c/ntu ... ridge.html

I have this motherboard with it's crappy little northbridge heatsink.

http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb ... p?S_ID=370

I want to upgrade the northbridge heatsink, what should I get? And of course I want fanless...

I agree. And maybe we should come up with some standardized testing procedure?

Holy crap! 20-25f?!?!?!?!?! I got mine in the mail today, and if those results are real, I can't WAIT to apply mine tommorrow!

Exactly why I didn't tell how to do it.

I have no clue if it works with vista...you can try running it as administrator or something, also wxripper has the same features in it but it has more like game ripping features, so try wxripper too.

I can't find anywhere in the United states that sells the Scythe Quiet Drives...

Well what is the quietest hard drive available ruling out SSDs?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=506 http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=477 So according to Western Digital, their Scorpio black drives are quieter and presumably faster than their Scorpio blue drives! I have a 3.5" WD Caviar Blue that I want to replace, and accor...

Looks pretty tight man.

There actually is a program that can do exactly what you want, stop and start your disc drive from spinning on command. It was intended for video game backing up (not going to get into it now long explanation of why it is needed and crap) but it's called wxStop and it is on gael360.free.fr check it ...

You got that right, working with heatsinks, taking them on and off is a pain, but looking at the program (SpeedFan for me) and seeing those lower temps (even if it is by just 1 degrees) just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. (Funny, because the feeling inside of your is the inverse temperatu...

Get a new power supply? Other than that, replacing a fan isn't hard, as for the 4 wires...eh...if you had a multimeter you could determine why they are, but if not just cut all of those wires and you can wire the nexus up right to 12v somewhere...forget the stock 4 wires. As for your second fan...eh...

I agree to test ICD7. I love Tuniq TX-2 and have always wondered how a diamond based compound would fair. (or is it fare?)

That looks pretty tight dude.

There are clicks when you press the click wheel to select something.

The difference between the 4850e and the 5050e is .1ghz IIRC. They are both 45W CPUs. I doubt you would see a difference in performance or heat between the two...I could be wrong though.