I agree. Building your own is the way to go.. I built most of my machines.. cept this last one.. boy.. big mistake lol

Edit: Well to get a pre-built that usually means your limiting yourself on what PSU or case they send you... unless its like a prebuilt from newegg.. then really only the PSU needs to be checked out.. as the cases you can generally buy yourself anyway.

does it reset the settings after a reboot or if you just close the program and immediatly reopen it?.. as it is right now.. mine only reverts to basic settings when i reboot/turn on/off the PC

the 8 and 9 series of cards are affected.. as well as a paticular 200 series of cards i think.

i think when you play a custom game that is on a map that you didnt have.. it is auto-downloaded to your pc... now i could be totally wrong about this as i have yet to play a custom game.. but thats the theory im running with hehe

Thanks all for the responses! And yeah i noticed that my gfx settings were defaulted to ultra so i tonned those down abit hehe. temps now are in the mid-70s range during gaming :)

buut i did have to replace one of the 9800GTs.. red dashes all over my screen at boot and some oddball artifacts at win logon screen.. oh well.. it was the secondary card so no major loss lol

well see thats the thing.. i applied the "fix".. and now the temps are higher... so im confused lol

So i have a 9800GT and i ran HWmonitor during my last match... temps rose to 81C sometime during the game. I never crashed but i did have some stutter during the match. I have the fan speed set to 70% at all times and it keeps the card near 58C idle.. is it just me or does my card run hot all the time? I play wow and the temps never break 70C. Granted wow isnt as graphics intensive as SC2.

I will be lowering my setting in SC2 to see if that helps the temps at all.. tho i doubt it.

even if you never do the multiplayer.. SC2 is a very good game. I spent 4 days on the campaign on normal just so ii saw everything. :)

yeah im not much of an OC'er so i think ill just work on saving some dough to build a complete new rig with a new socket. just sad that 1.5yrs ago this proc was one of the top of the line models lol..

oh well.. such is the life of a pc gamer :)

wow all these replys overnight hehe.. yeah i figure just keep the CPU and upgrade my GPU.. atm im runnin 2 9800GTs sorta dated i would assume?