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by Rendus
Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:50 pm
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: What thermal compound?
Replies: 48
Views: 16080

Re: What thermal compound?

What are you afraid of? I use IC Diamond in my desktop, PS3, and both laptops, so apparently nothing? I've re-applied it at one point or another in three of the four objects too. I haven't seen any damage other than harmless staining. I've also used the others you list. Albeit I would note that zin...
by Rendus
Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:06 pm
Forum: Cases and Power Supplies
Topic: Grounding Myself and Getting My Education from Newegg Videos
Replies: 4
Views: 2312

Re: Grounding Myself and Getting My Education from Newegg Vi

Painted doesn't mean non-conductive. A painted piece of metal has an unknown level of resistance to it (from 0 to infinite, depending on how insulating the paint is), but it's pretty likely that you'll successfully discharge your static buildup on a painted metal surface. Unpainted would definitely ...
by Rendus
Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:07 am
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Why buy expensive chipsets given Multi GPU jittering?
Replies: 2
Views: 1803

Re: Why buy expensive chipsets given Multi GPU jittering?

Presumably, a jitter pattern alternating between five- and 15-millisecond frame times would be less of an annoyance than a 15- and 45-millisecond pattern. The worst example we saw in our testing alternated between roughly six and twenty milliseconds, but it didn't jump out at me as a problem during...
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