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I agree. If fanless were a real solution, silentpcreview.com wouldn't have a whole site dedicated how to silence a computer.

Sounds like a messy procedure if you have to change anything. :D

I'm gradually getting to the point that I may just have to do that. Water cool that other computer, and stop it's noise, while having a silent computer for trading without water cooling risks in it.

Granted the computer wouldn't need water cooling for trading uses, but if you factor in trading into what else I'm doing, it changes the priorities a bit for what to permit in the system. If I wasn't trading, water cooling would make a lot more sense. The risk of a failure in trading makes water...

Hardware is my primary use of ET, and discussion of charting tools etc. I don't come here to talk trading tips, nor on any message boards for that matter. I don't need input in that area. A library of books is where I go for tips. I've not been a member six months though, I had posts as early...

The Intel's may remain stable to higher temps though, I've heard people run prime95 tests at 80c on i7's without lockups.

Yeah I was noticing this. On my current Asus board I have a firepro plugged into the other X16 speed slot, and it doesn't seem to slow down the graphics at all to drop to 8x, which I'm assuming the board is doing. I don't know how to check it though.

As a side note, I tried to run a 7850, a 7970, and a 5450 in the Asus board, and it wouldn't work right. I pulled the 5450 and it worked ok, but the 7850 died completely after a few weeks. Computer one day refused to boot, pulled all the cards except the 7970 and it booted. Put just the 7870 and...

Yeah, the monitors are running, but no room left to install a sound card. I'm pretty unhappy with the onboard sound. I want to add a sound card to it. http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4658#ov Looks like this one has six! Nice find, and no I checked MSI and none of...

Interesting. I haven't RMA'd my motherboard, but the single PCI slot died already, one day it stopped detecting my sound card that was in it, and never again detected it. I tried a known good PCI graphics card in it, and the moment I plugged a monitor into it I got color sploches on the screen...

Before I built this computer I had a nasty experience with AMD. My nice computer that did everything I needed wouldn't run certain new programs, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, Maya... why? Because apparently AMD didn't put the necessary MMX version in it's Athlon series processors. I had to dig up an...

As I suspected, Asus doesn't make a 6 or 7 pci-e X16 board. You have to go intel for that many slots. I guess in the money saving AMD market there isn't anyone willing to spend $500 for a motherboard.

I built my computer with an AMD processor, not really thinking about it since I've used them in the past. However, I've encountered a few glitches with my motherboard. I'm wondering if AMD based products are not as robust as Intel. Any thoughts?

Yup, removed it from control panel for me too. Tool really works :)

I might also add that a FirePro 2460 should work fine on a 250W power supply. Four monitors reliably, unlike usb the adapters. Let me know if the uninstaller above works. I couldn't get mine to uninstall either, no matter what. It would just sit there uninstalling for several minutes until I...

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Well, I ordered the biggest heatsink you can buy pretty much. The Thermalright HR-22. Hope it fits on my motherboard ok.

This should help, run it from DOS though, open cmd.exe and put the file where you can find it (I used the main C: drive). Then change directory with "cd" to the C: drive. Then type the name of the exe file. http://www.displaylink.com/support/ticket.php?id=297 Click DisplayLink Install Cleaner.

Well, I decided to order a Thermalright HR-22 heatsink instead. That should keep the processor cool, especially if I push-pull it with 140mm fans.

I have a self-contained water cooler on my cpu... after looking at the risk of leaks I'm thinking even this could be a bad idea. Trading is stressful enough, without having to worry about springing a leak when you least can afford to have a problem. That's when it'll happen, guaranteed. I...