Later I show you my soldering skill..must set up my PC from hostel 1st. All my stuff is on that PC..

Thought you knew already..mentioned before a number of times..
Sure, let meet up sometime during the sem, now I'm at home in georgetown. During sem, anyone want to find me, almost guarantee I'll be in USM all the time, especially weekdays. Heard there's a bus service between the main campus and the transkrian campus, but can't find it, you know anything about it?

Well yeah, if you koyak any warranty stickers while you're opening it.


Btw, about the rams, we'll have to do it sometime next week, I'll be in KL whole of this week, family trip.

And 8600GT is no longer 'just on par' with 7600GT with current drivers. Its almost as good as a 7900GS/x1950pro even at stock GT speed (only lag behind a bit), and it can easily be set to 8600GTS speed as long as the core is running on the same voltage (nothing a little hard modding can't fix, if lucky even pencil trick is enough)


No point, you can overclock a 8600GT to GTS easily. Only catch would be the a bit more cooling, set to the same core voltage and have memory chips same as GTS spec. Cards without PCI-E aux power connectors might need a little modding for enough power, but thats about it. GTS for almost RM150 cheaper.

X1950pro doesn't take up much power bro.. comparing it with a X1900XTX is like comparing a superclocked Barton with a typical medium clocked A64. Mine barely goes beyond 60C (on stock la, overclock is about 5-7C higher), and yet its fan is the quietest one in my system.

I can fix that..as it is I already mess around with his PSU quite a bit. Gonna mess around with mine soon.
Btw that connector is still acceptable for graphics cards taking 60-80W or less, more only it starts to become an issue. The voltage drop is usually not that bad unless the connector is FUBAR.

This post has been edited by lohwenli: Nov 19 2007, 07:20 PM

Depends on how much current is drawn by the card. 60-80W is only 5-7A or so, and is actually a bit less since some of it is drawn through the PCI-E, so that much is ok. More than that would result in a voltage drop due to the resistance of the connector. I wouldn't really call it stress, but with high currents small changes in the resistance (like if the connector becomes loose), the voltage may drop all over the place causing the graphics card hang. But seriously, this is usually the least likely of graphic card problems, other issues are far more likely.

You'll be surprised. There are a few manufacturers which try to be funny. Ask @meno, he found one such case (Colorful).

I said it. But apparently I'm wrong to some extent, it does better than Brisbane, and almost as good as windsor F3s. And there is still room for improvement, the current steppings are still quite early.

Not really, consider this:

AMD's processors are all backwards compatible for socket AM2 or newer. Basically upgrading will only mean changing the processor, nothing else. Makes for a dirt cheap upgrade. And this is expected to carry on till at least 2009, perhaps longer. While the poor intel dudes have to keep changing boards with each FSB increment, and no current board for Intel will be able to work with Nehalem, which will be out end of next year.