Nice, but you may want to maintain a single coloured lighting...

Well, to each, his own. Belated Merry Christmas to your casing~!

Erm...how cheap you want it to be?

Aiyah...like that ah. Even the cheap HD26xx series or HD24xx series also have. Don't regret though...

Haha~! Good for you man. I'm getting the GT this Friday

OMG...you are truly late for the party. Go google mate. Or check out Tomshardware or Anandtech.

Rivatuner. It doesn't fully support Catalyst 7.12 or 8.1 though.

NVIDIA's 9800 variant will be coming. Just don't know what SKU will they be marketted as. BTW, got my HR03GT. Just didn't have time to use it yet. My damn car's attenuator broke down.

Well, my HIS HD3870 (880/1333) with stock cooler and fan running at 70% has an idle temp at 58°C (min) and load at 70°C (max). With HR03GT, idle was at 43°C (min) and load at 53°C (max). I stress it with 3dmark06 and Bioshock. What I did was run them through really heavy scenes, and then, jump to desktop to look at the highest temperature before it drops. At idle, the difference was 15°C and at load, the difference was 17°C. I use Silverstone FN91 fan on the HR03GT.

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Added on January 26, 2008, 10:54 pmIt should be made known that the stock cooler with fan at 70% is rather loud. With the FN91 fan, you really can't hear any noise made by the fan.

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 26 2008, 10:54 PM

Huh? I am using Rivatuner. So, why did you recommend me to use it in the first place?

I leave Rivatuner on. But the thing is, when you jump out of 3dmark06 or Bioshock or any game, the measurement drops considerably. So, what I did was, run the tests, jump to desktop and see the first and highest temperature on the Rivatuner graph. After that, in less than a second, it drops more than 5°C even though the game runs in the background. For your info, I'm using Vista Ultimate 32bit.

You must tick the "Enable low-level fan control" and also set it to "Fixed" instead of "Auto".

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 27 2008, 05:41 PM

Did you click "Apply" and then save all the profiles before moving on to Launcher?

BTW, when I OC my HD3870 to 900/1333 with the HR03GT, the temperature at idle is at 43°C and load at 50°C max. Kind of funny how it is lower than my setting at 880/1333 with the HR03GT. Stock cooler at 900/1333 and fan at 100% (hairdryer noise) has temperature of 53°C (idle) and 68°C (load). Seems like a heck of difference.

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 27 2008, 07:29 PM

Why don't you launch 3dmark06 to try

Yeah, I know. Weird thing now is when I OC it higher, the temperature fell back. I think it must've been something to do with the thermal paste settling down.

Hmmm...never heard of that before... Plus, how do electrostatic magnetism affect something that isn't turned on in the first place?

Electrostatic will only react to stuff that are of the opposite polar. But the equipments are not even turned on...so it just charged them with the same ions. Ain't going to affect the equipments at all. Further more, can vacuum cleaner create electrostatic just by air pressure?

Ok, so tell me where the word electrostatic word appears in the Wikipedia. I've read it through and searched the word "electrostatic" but can't find it. Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner

Can't find it here either: http://home.howstuffworks.com/vacuum-cleaner1.htm

There is however vacuum cleaners with electrostatic filtration. Go here: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6740144.html and http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0908121.html and http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?IA=WO1...28&DISPLAY=DESC But it does so to filter the air WITHIN the vacuum cleaner, not from the intake nozzle.

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Added on January 28, 2008, 10:33 pmBut I do agree that blower is more useful at times. Some vacuum cleaner allows you to blow the air instead of sucking it. Don't ever use hairdryer though.

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 28 2008, 10:33 PM

How the heck do electrostatic harm the equipments? When you put the heatsink on the CPU, electrostatic ions are formed. When you screw, ions are formed. Almost anything you do physically will cause ions to form. Even when the electronics perform their functions, and when heat is produced, ions are formed. Do they harm your computer? Care to explain?

Electromagnetism has the potential to affect, but not electrostatic ions.

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