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Sorry for late reply. I tried toothpaste and it works great! Better than thermal compound. 43C idle with toothpaste and 45C idle with thermal compound. However, I bought the thermal compound. Thanks everyone!

I'm out of thermal paste. Are there any recipes for "homemade" thermal compound? I can't go out and buy today. Please, just don't say this: "Wait for tomorrow" or something like that.

Yes! It runs on my PC! Quality settings are as low as possible. Except for driver which is set to Low instead of Off. Menu: XP: ~44 FPS Vista: 14 FPS Buggy track: XP: 19 FPS Vista: 6 FPS The game is barely playable in XP and unplayable at all in Vista. Screenshot: Loading screen...

From PC Wizard 2008: Mainboard: Unspecified PT800-8237 Information: General Information : Manufacturer : Unspecified Product : PT800-8237 Version : Unspecified Serial Number : Unspecified Support MP : Yes, 1 CPU(s) Version MPS : 1.4 Chassis Information : Manufacturer...

Or the OS itself is corrupted.

Anyone know where I can find the BIOS update for this mobo, VIA PT800 with VT8237 Southbridge? It currently has Award Phoenix BIOS. Is it possible to install on top of the old BIOS with a different brand (e.g. AMI, American Megatrends)?

Updated DirectX (August 2007). Reinstalling the demo. I'll tell whether it works or not. However, thanks for the link! PS: You seem to have the Ageia PhysX PPU in your rig, does it improve performance? How much?

Thanks, I'll wait for the price to drop. So, there's no way to get DiRT running on my PC?

You can't compare Crysis directly with Halo, it's DirectX 9.0b (or 9.0a). Look at Half-Life 2 with the cinematic mod (the mod is 3.21GB large when compressed with RAR, you can get it at HL2 files). Half-Life 2 cinematic mod images: (Downscaled image) Left: Without the mod. Right: With...

Minimum sys. req. for DiRT. Minimum: Windows XP (or Vista) Pentium 4 @ 3.0 GHz or Athlon 64 3000+ 1 GB RAM, Graphics Card: GeForce 6800 / Radeon X1300 or above DirectX Compatible Sound Card I tried running the demo but it just crashes to the desktop! I know my PC doesn't pass even the MINIMUM...

What's with that? Ops.. I forgot, I'll go with Source! More realistic, more fun and less annoying.. (I hate the voices in 1.6 like "HEADSHOT!" etc. I don't know whether it can be disabled or not)

I wanna play that Portal. I watched the trailer and I think I'm falling in love with it. ;)

When I'm using, idling, chatting or playing a game.. it reboots suddenly.. No BSOD.. And it happened many times. I know it's not a PSU problem becaue I tried two PSU and get the same thing. The first one has a wattage of 430W with 22A on 12V+ rail and the other has a wattage of 400W with 18A on...

Make sure it doesn't overheat ;)

Yeah.. and right now, they give away Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch to ATi users for FREE!

I don't know about your problem but your refresh rate, :eek: 30 Hertz? AFAIK, the lowest is 50 Hz.

Whoa.. 50 mil lines!?!? Even 10 mil of lines are too much for a person.

The graphics does improve and it's nearly 3x better than Halo 2 on XBox..

Here's my Vista desktop (it's a pretty big file 1.13MB PNG format).. NOTE: The background is animated (using Windows DreamScene, a Windows Ultimate Extras item). Widescreen 16:10 Vista desktops are very few.

I'd choose the GPU cos the CPU is fast enough (compared with my P4 2.66 @ 2.8)