Originally posted by Red_Maw:

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With what cooling though.

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Originally posted by bigwill68:

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gotta be Water or Liquid nitrogen

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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this biostar board is nice. one little set back on the back side where the CPU sets it has a reinforcement type plate. with the CM V8 cooler on it i have to put a extra spacer on the mounting bracket so it dont touch any of the metal parts on the back side.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Well well, you jept the i5 quiet!
You can easily get an i5 to 4Ghz on air, you don't need watercooling, let alone Ln2. In fact, you can reach 4.3Ghz on air if you're willing to live with higher temperatures. Of course this does require a proficient cooler.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Hey guys. Any thoughts on this badboy? I've been looking at 8 Port controller cards but as im sure you know, they're friggin spendy! I suppose I could get by with 4 ports for now...
http://cgi.ebay.com/SYBA-4-Ports-SATA-II...=item563749c6a1
I'm finally strongly considering RMA'ing my mobo. To do so, im gonna need to get by comfortably LOL! To do so, I need a card with at least these capabilities, at a decent price. And since my Dual core MSI machine is awesome, it deserves a card like this for the long run LOL! Besides, one can never have to many Sata ports. You hear me Gigabyte! ;)

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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@Omega,

That card is PCI-X, not PCI-Express. I highly doubt you've ever owned a system with a PCI-X slot in it. I've seen one and it was in a very high end rackmount server cluster.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Only ever owned the same PCI S-ATA card except for one, and I've had 4 of them - no issues with any but for the fact that they don't come with a driver and there's no driver on the website. Once you track it down (took me 3-4 hours) they work fine. The other was the same Silicon Image system but a 4-port PCIe 1x card, which I got from ebay, and was DOA.

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Originally posted by keith1993:

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I've got a 7300GS kicking about somewhere that was DOA off Ebay. It had FAILED written on the Anti-static bag that had then been scrawled over with felt-tip. The seller said it was working before they sent it and Ebay did absolutely nothing! GRR

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Originally posted by creaky:

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Yeah often times bargains can be had on Amazon and other well known sites in the UK, you US guys have your own reputable online stores to,a lot of my kit is older tech hence why the bay has it's uses for me.
Obviously i've had my fair share of problems such as DOA etc but i think there's only been a couple of cowboys over the years that've given me grief. I'm not for selling stuff on there too often, i tend to keep stuff long past the time it could be sold for a reasonable amount on the bay, i've always been a bit of a hoarder. Good job really as that's enabled me to have quite a decent fleet of machines, even if most are older and slower.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I'll be honest, the DOA PCIe card is about the only time I've ever had any issues with a component I've bought off ebay, been quite lucky really. I'm quite surprised ebay banned you Russ, but I have to say, if it did come to it, I'd do exactly what you did.

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