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Hi All I've just finished my first loop and after tightening up a couple of jubilee clips it seems watertight so far. However I need some help bleeding the loop. I'm using the XSPC reservoir top for Laing D5 with a D5 vario installed. It is very noisy so far. The pump does not seem to be...

Hi If your fans are 3-pin the fan speed can't be varied automatically - if connected to the motherboard you can normally set a fixed speed of your choice in the BIOS. However it is easier to use a fan controller as you are doing. Good luck seeing if you can adjust the pump speed in the BIOS...

Normally you connect the fan to the cpu header so it adjusts the speed for different temperatures. Your y-splitter so should do the job for both fans if connected to the cpu header. However it looks like a 3-pin whereas you need a 4-pin to 4-pin for power and speed adjustment. It might be easier...

Hi all I have bought some 140mm Aerocool Shark fans for my radiator. I got the red LED version as plain black was not available at the time and the prices were the same anyway – I am not really bothered about looks. I have not had the chance to use them yet as I’m waiting for other parts before...

Hi All I'm new to watercooling and am about to try my first build (final parts should be delivered today). I have bought two EK full cover blocks for my 500 series sli graphics system. I used EK because they have a configurator tool and could provide blocks which matched my Pallit cards which...

Thanks for your reply. I'm in the UK and distilled seems very difficult to get hold of. Some other enthusiasts have now advised me to get de-ionised which is common here. Apparently it has all the minerals removed but not all the microbes that distilled also removes. However I have been told...

Hi I'm building my first watercooling loop and need help with coolant. From all the research I've done the view is to use water not the proprietary coolant mixes from Phobya etc which cost a bomb and glow in the dark. The problem I'm finding is that some say only use distilled (plus PT Nuke)...

As Big B above said you can't really use these CPU coolers as you want as they are self contained units. Also if you build a full watercooling loop it will be a lot more expensive than your budget (although many of the components can be reused when you upgrade). Also from my understanding and...

Hi I'm about to try a watercooling loop in my system. It is mainly to calm down the heat and noise of my sli GPU's but I will probably put my Sandy bridge CPU in the loop as well. I've been researching the subject for a couple of weeks now and have one fundamental question remaining. When...

Hi I'm running two gtx 570's in sli. Case is a Silverstone Fortress with motherboard orientated so graphics cards hang down vertically. Motherboard is Asus P8P67 Pro which leaves over one inch gap between graphics cards. Both cards idle around 38 degrees. If I run both in sli the first gets to...

Hi Thomas Thanks for the reply I've given up waiting for Foxconn's technical people to get back to me on this and reopened my own investigation. I found I'd made a mistake when I thought I had the most recent bios - I must have been following an out of date link or something. Anyway when I...

Thanks for your reply - I've posted a query on Foxconn's technical support forum and see if they can help - I agree with you - it looks as if the bios is set up incorrectly for sli. Regards Mag

Hi everyone I wonder if anyone could help me with a strange problem I’m having with my motherboard, a Foxconn Bloodrage Gti. I’ve been running two Radeon 5870’s for a while in crossfire with excellent performance. I selected this motherboard as it is both Crossfire and SLI certified and leaves...

Hi Sorry about your problem - I've a couple of thoughts that may help. Your power rating of 600W is ample for your build. I've got a 650W that can power a GTX 285 no problem which is far thirstier than your 3870 - it is graphics cards that use most power. I don't know the make of your PSU...

Hi Everyone, I made a post last August with a technical problem but despite some extremely helpful advice never found out what was causing the problem – until now I think. To recap, in some of my PC games I was getting what I described as large translucent swirling snowflakes mainly in...

Thanks for replying. GPU-Z shows 2048MB as expected. What I can't understand is why dxdiag is so low. Which is correct? Regards Mag

Thanks for replying so quickly. If mine were showing as a higher figure in dxdiag I wouldn't be so worried. It's the fact that over half the memory appears to be missing that worries me. I'm using a 64 bit operating system so I shouldn't be having problems with the low RAM cap on some 32 bit...

Hi I'm confused about the memory on my graphics card and could use some advice. I have a Pallit 2GB Geforce GTX 285. The GPU-Z utility shows the memory as 2048MB which is what I would expect. However I've also run dxdiag on Windows 7 and it shows the approx memory as 748MB which is way too...

Thanks again. Time to think of something else! Mag

Thanks for replying so quickly. When I looked on the motherboard driver disk that was supplied the drivers were up to date with the ones on their website so I used them. The one's I installed were the chipset Intel INF driver (I don't know what this does but it relates to the Southbridge...