Video Card and Sound Card

[enkil76]

Thanks. My card comes Monday, so I will give a heads up on the noise level from my opinion.

[enkil76]

Originally Posted by doublebogey

I recently installed a Winegard SS-3000 Sharpshooter indoor OTA HDTV antenna, and it does a great job. I get most stations above 90%.

Phil

I had the Zenith ZHDTV1 HDTV-UHF Digital Indoor Antenna and for most channles I got 100% on all HD channels. I looked at the Winegard. However, $96 comapred to $19.03 for Zenith. I wasn't sure if getting it would help with my SD channels or make a difference overall. Maybe someone else has an opinion.

[doublebogey]

Originally Posted by enkil76

I had the Zenith ZHDTV1 HDTV-UHF Digital Indoor Antenna and for most channles I got 100% on all HD channels. I looked at the Winegard. However, $96 comapred to $19.03 for Zenith. I wasn't sure if getting it would help with my SD channels or make a difference overall. Maybe someone else has an opinion.

I don't use for SD so I couldn't tell you for sure. I paid... about $78 at solidsignal.com.

[Bryann]

Having had the card in for a day now, I'd go ahead and order that Zalman now if you have the cash lol.

[enkil76]

Originally Posted by Bryann

Having had the card in for a day now, I'd go ahead and order that Zalman now if you have the cash lol.

Thanks for the heads up. I will wait till it gets here and see how bad mine is.

Is this the product you are recommending?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118006

[Bryann]

No, it's this one. That one is the same thing but with blue LEDs on it which makes it more expensive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118001

It looks like it went on sale today. $43 - $6 instant savings = $36. I'll probably order mine this weekend to take advantage of that.

[enkil76]

Hmm. Sounds like a good idea. I have never used Artic Silver before and it seems I should, can you point me to the right product for this application?

[Bryann]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007

Should drop the temps an additional 2-5C over standard thermal paste once it sets up. You can use this stuff on any chip/heatsink, even the northbridge.

[Bryann]

I just plopped that Zalman in with some AS and man does it make a difference! Idle temps dropped from 54C to 42C and it's extremely quiet. And I'm not sure if it's just the Zalman or moving from component out to DVI > HMDI, but it's doing HD playback at 43C, just 1 degree difference. Excellent GPU cooler.

[polen]

Since we're talking about video cards, does anyone have this card.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/es/produ...w.php?gpid=145

I like the HDMI connector and HDCP ready.

here it is at Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102032

Wow, comes with an HDMI cable, that's a $20 item, is that a spdif cable too?

-Polen