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That's a video of me after Wednesday night at Bad Aims

Mine is home built Asus P5N-D Intel Q9400 Oc'd to 2.90 ( for now) 2 gigs Corsair pc6400 ddr2 Corsair 600w PS XFX 8600GT 512mb ram Wd 80 gig HD Win XP SP2 Acer 21" LCD 5ms X-52 Track IR4 Black Death at 38fps average

Thank you for the info Brando. I am looking into changing over to liquid cooling now. I received my cleaner and paste today, and after school tonight I replaced the CPU cooler with my Zalman cooler and the max temps I got with the black death with explorer running in the background,track IR and Saitek profile was 43c.

I have a Zalman cooler that I took out before I recleaned the processor. I am waiting for some cleaner and thermal paste to come from Newegg Tuesday. When I put it on me dual core processor it cooled it down 15c. Now I am out of thermal paste and Radio shack is out too. Hopefully I'll be back flying on Wednesday night.

Any advice where to look for info on water cooling? I think that is my next step. I cleaned the processor and heat sink, use good paste and it still gets up to 65c under load. I have noticed that one processor is usually a few degrees hotter that the rest. The 0 core is the one, but it handles more of the process than the rest. Is this normal?

Good one Smash Thats just to funny.

After the melt down of my last processor and mobo I have obtained, at great cost to my marriage, a new ASUS P5N-D and a Intel Q9400 processor ( Quad core 2.66 GHz). My question is what is the thermal range for a set up like this? my old system would run at about 50c on the mobo and processor at full load. Now with what I have It runs at about 60c at the processor with a stock fan and 43c on the mobo under full load. I guess my question is does the quad core processors run that much hotter than the dual core ones do?

Hello all Just as I got back on-line and had everything working again, my mobo s**t the bed. It seems that I got a spike Thu the cable line. For the good news I was able to order a new one and a new quad core processor too. I even paid for second day air so I would have it for this weekend. To bad it is stuck in Orlandos UPS depot because they don't deliever on the weekend

Good one CG

What OS are you running? I have XP and when I installed SP3 all sorts of weird things started to happen. When flying in game my plane would just explode for no reason. I would get disconnected from the internet, Track I/R wouldn't work ect. After uninstalling SP3 all works well for me.

I second that JP. Thanks to Klinger and Friar for all thier hard work, and congratz to the Reds

:k9lmao: Very funny Mctav like it would ever happe.....fade to black

Oh no Jim I also agree with Jabo, Welcome to the pound Padfark, drinking and swearing are not only tolerated but graded too.

I have had the X52 for almost three years now and I am very happy with it.