HME 2009, Day 3: Impression pics - Visiting the competition's kitchen.

Dreamhack gamers all over

3D Vision of Nvidia

HME 2009, Day 3: MSI's Eva flyering and taking pictures.

Finished Case.

HME 2009, Day 2: Component wall - MSI R4890 Cyclone.

Took off the gpu heatsink and and ramsinks in order to replace the stock cooler. This is a very delicate process and something I hate doing.

HME 2009, Day 2: Visitors playing on MSI gaming notebooks at the MSI booth.

ZOTAC® Reveals World’s Fastest DirectX® 11 Graphics Card

It isn't even hot here. Room temperature is about 22°C and all case fans are operational.

If I had a hot-air thingy I could try to reflow the RAM chips. But a replacement card is much cheaper than getting a cheap hot-air station. Maybe I will keep the card for experimenting with it later.

The nVidia 8800GT 512MB that came with my Mac Pro when I bought it three years ago gave up the ghost.

Here it is sitting beside its replacement: the ATI Radeon 5770 1GB. The thing barely fits in the case.

Too bad I have a laptop. Gotta sell it. Quite a gift though!

HME 2009, Day 1: Crowd awaiting goodies being handed out at the MSI booth.

HME 2009, Day 1: Component wall - On sale instore MSI P55-CD53.

Live from the HME2009.

AMD Unveils New Radeon Sky Series for Cloud Gaming - tinyurl.com/cm62o4h

HME 2009, Day 1: Component wall - MSI Big Bang Trinergy. This gaming mainboard drew a lot of attention.

HME 2009, Day 3: MSI booth.

Here you can see the SATA cables connected to the motherboard on the right side. The white-headed cable is for SATA 6.0Gb/s. It goes to the hard drive. I used a mix of straight and 90-degree SATA data cables to get them to run the way I wanted.

NVIDIA to Build Unique New Campus - tinyurl.com/bx4xktr

HME 2009, Day 3: Crowded at the MSI booth.

The box my Gainward GTX 690 was shipped in.

Everything is installed. Time for the task of positioning the power, case, and data cables so there is no mess. I want air to flow freely and I don't want any cables getting caught in the CPU's heatsink fan.

© Ray Skwire

Here we see the main culprit for poor performance, heat, and if left this way, certain death - DUST!

It's a killer, folks. Don't let dust happen to you.

computer innards

This is the video card. It came with a power cable, but I used the PCIe power cable that came with my power supply instead. I think the connectors on this cable were intended for non-modular power supplies anyway. The card comes with two DVI ports, one DisplayPort, and one HDMI port. I have to use the supplied VGA adaptor for my old CRT monitor. You can also see the vent where hot air is exhausted from the card.

HME 2009, Day 1: Component wall - One of the most popular components which received a lot of attention... and very hard to get at the moment: MSI R5870 but availability should improve soon.

Gfx card decided to go passive all by itself.

Samthaman Beatboxxing

HME 2009, Day 3: Impression pics - HUB Publishers, one of the big IT publishers in Holland.

I wonder why it died today. It's not the first time I played Quake4... damn!

I could easily insert a bit of copper/brass foil + thermal goop to restore proper contact. But without an hot-rair station there's no way to give the RAM-chips a treatment that might revive the card.

HME 2009, Day 3: Impression pics - nice Metroid Prime statue.

The Nvidia 9800GT on my computer

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