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27-11-2010 8:15pm#1
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The average HD6850 is a bit longer than the short-PCB HD4850 but shorter than a full ATX mobo (e.g. yours!) is wide
Whats the average price a 6850 is going for?
Oh Ive tidied up the cables a little bit. Ive moved the hard drive down but i can move the other up because thats for smaller things. I will do more tidying tomorrow when I find more of my cable ties:p0 -
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No competition. The Asus features a pathetic 15MHz clock speed advantage - less than 2% increase - in return for costing over €30 more including shipping. The Sapphire is a much better buy for under €173 shipped, and if you're not extreme-OCing the additional features of the Asus are useless anyway. With either card you can just go into CCC's Overdrive tab and boost the clocks by 50MHz if you want to OC anyway 0
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Just looking at the pictures, your CPU cooler fan should ideally be blowing towards the back extractor fan, as far as i know. Is there enough room or do you have the possibility to point it around the other way? I can see you don't have a massive amount of room there, but it LOOKS like enough. But yeah, I'd agree with moving the hard drives and tidying up those cables.. :P
I went with the GTX 460, great bang for buck IMO.
I can't turn the cooler around because it's an AM3 motherboard and thats the orientation that the cooler has to be in. I wanted to have to blowing towards the back but you can only do that on intel motherboard.
I have tidied up the cables a bit today.
It was hard as there is no room behind the motherboard but I managed to tidy it up a bit.
Would a 460 work with 550W and where would I get it for the cheapest?Yup, cooler is wrong way around, if you can't point it front-to-back because of the AM3 mounting then it should be pointing bottom-to-top, not the other way around! :eek::p
Aww you're joking :eek: I got the cooler last christmas and I think I had tried every possible way to get it in :mad:
Ah well thats another job to do for next weekend, unless I get off school tomorrow cause of the snow
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In your current config its causing gasping for both the cooler and the PSU - their fans are opposing and thus fight each other for available air
If the cooler has the intake/push fan at the bottom it will take air from low-mounted intake casefans faster and propel the exhaust through the PSU and with greater force 0 -
In your current config its causing gasping for both the cooler and the PSU - their fans are opposing and thus fight each other for available air If the cooler has the intake/push fan at the bottom it will take air from low-mounted intake casefans faster and propel the exhaust through the PSU and with greater force
If I'm going to refit the cooler when I remove it do I have to take the thermal paste off the processor and cooler and reapply it to both or do I can I just leave it as it is and just turn it around?0 -
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You'd have to reapply
On both the cooler and cpu?Sasquatch76 wrote: »I was going to post saying that I found the card for €5 more on a few places that will charge considerably less than HVS's €30 flat delivery charge, but then I found this Gainward 1GB for €140 on Pixmania.
Are Gainward still a respected brand? I heard they were taken over by someone else... Palit maybe??
So it's now 460 VS 6850. Which would be the best?
My dad thinks that he read here on boards that pixmania are having trouble with orders at the moment about not getting what you ordered. Is this the case or is it safe to buy off them?0 -
On both the cooler and cpu?
No! :P You have to clean both off though! Then reapply a thin layer of thermal gunk on the CPU's heatspreader then reinstall the (naked) cooler base, only this time with the intake fan facing down. Emphasis on thin!So it's now 460 VS 6850. Which would be the best?
HD6850 is stronger and uses a lot less power. GTX460 1GB is a tad cheaper and has CUDA/PhysX. Your call.My dad thinks that he read here on boards that pixmania are having trouble with orders at the moment about not getting what you ordered. Is this the case or is it safe to buy off them?
Are they? Only place with that issue at the moment is Komplett AFAIK.0 -
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Nope, silicon's crippled too, only 288 shader/CUDA cores instead of the usual 336! :eek::mad:
Add the speed difference and you have a ~18% reduction in performance over a real GF104, although the 256bit SEs have a slight memory bandwidth advantage over the 192bit true cards. Nowhere near enough to close the performance gap though! 0 -
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Yup. The old stuff gets in the way and can leave either excesses of old manky paste or air gaps or both. That hurts your CPU's ability to get heat away from it into the heatsink, thus higher temps
You only want to use the absolute minimum amount of paste possible to remove any and all air gaps/bubbles from the interface of the two metal pieces 0 -
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- Not huge, but certainly a fair bit - thermal paste is a lot less effective at transmitting heat than aluminium or copper Although not as bad as air!
- Something that is isopropyl-based. Although not as good as the pure stuff (which is impossible to find!) DVD cleaner fluid is dilute iso and pretty darn good while leaving minimal residue. Citrus-based acidic cleaners are the next best and can be purchased by the bottle from Arctic and Akasa. They leave a slight residue, althought the Akasa stuff is probably the least residue-prone cleaner of all the residue-leaving types. Arctic on the other hand actually sells a second bottle to remove the residue from the first!
:P Next down is acetone which is easier and cheaper to buy and extremely effective in its stronger forms but leaves a noticeable residue and must be kept away from plastics and delicates to avoid damaging them. Last of all there's the white spirit/naptha class which, while effective, is too messy and greasy to recommend. They leave a ton of residue 
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