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Screeching, chirping, whistling... plenty of adjectives for it. it's due to electrical resonance in some part of the power circuitry. Cheap parts, or parts being stressed a little to far can apparently cause it. Or it could also be caused by a simple fluke coincidence when frequencies magically...

MSI introduced some kind of new, mouse-enabled BIOS on their newest motherboards... it can only be flashed via floppy from what I read. Flashing GPU BIOS's does require a floppy as well, unfortunately. If you use XP and use RAID then floppies are also needed. If CD-ROMs work for loading RAID...

There are all kinds and sizes of peltiers on ebay, many junk and some decent brands in the mix, all at half decent prices. I never considered sandwiching a peltier between my CPU and waterblock, but now thanks to you the idea is stuck in my head. Bah. Swiftech makes a waterblock/peltier combo...

Hm, it's rather interesting. My GTX 260 did quit screeching when put under most loads, but it is unbearably loud even sitting at the Crysis Warhead menuscreen. So I am anxious to upgrade to a GPU that isn't missing a fourth or fifth of the power circuitry... hopefully the clockspeeds will...

Hm, so removing people's wallpapers is considered serious functional damage... I guess that just says it all right there. How about the Chinese just rip off the OS and make their own, they already do it for CPUs and everything else. ;)

Advantage to media... you don't need to wait an hour to reinstall the game. Disadvantage, you can't always redownlaod and install via steam. You must also install patches each time... Steam games are fully patched before they are sent to you. Media also requires keys, but steam games are...

Well... it makes a perverse sense. If yer going to spend a few grand on audio equipment for your car, you might as well include a computer or two with good sound cards to make it sound its best. :D Never heard of anyone doing this before, but suddenly I have to wonder why not... it makes sense.

Only $90 more for the Rampage II? That's almost a bargain... :rolleyes:

A backplate is just a backplate, due to how my waterblock mounts I could install almost any 775 backplate, use the crazycool gimmick thing as a backplate, or not use a backplate at all (as is currently the situation). Intel boards do not come with backplates, and many Intel coolers don't use...

What he said. ;)

Rob, hope you see this in time! Free versions of a supposedly good commercial WINE distrib that ordinarily isn't free. Crossover and Crossover Games, and both Linux and Mac versions.

Well they are good units... one single powerful 12v rail, none of this silly six 12v rail nonsense that is asking for trouble.

Darn it, I hate it when you're right. :D I just looked... Windows folder is 17GB Program Files is 509MB Program Files (x86) is 34.4GB :confused: This isn't even a full install, I only have a handful of games installed. I guess I could get away with 64GB if I uninstalled things when I...

Hm, you are right they did Link It's mostly what I've heard though, Frontpage's basic features and options got rolled into augmenting Publisher. I've never used either Expression Web or Sharepoint Designer, and don't use Publisher either.

It's a good question, I'm not sure you can upgrade beyond 1 generation...

If OpenOffice worked with MS Office formats, I'd be using it more. But spending $50 to 80 to buy MS Office to save headaches, hassles, and my time was an easy choice for me. OpenOffice just doesn't work well with MS Office formats, ESPECIALLY with excel docs. It always screws up Excel formating...

Nothing wrong it with that model, hope ya enjoy it ;)

Merlin, it is because he is running SLI. Guys, don't forget this little bit of info: If you want multiple monitor support wait for the 180 drivers, although they still have lots of problems and caveats form what I heard.

That was my other idea as well, you probably need to install individual, specific drivers for the PPU. Try these: http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/OTHERS/AGEIA-PhysX-Driver-71113.shtml

Honestly I'm not sure, I've not had a chance to try CS4 and spot the differences. Native 64bit support, full GPU hardware acceleration, and some of the newer advanced tools (that I'd probably never use) are all very nice incentives... but not sure if they're worth 200 quid.