Recent content by brian_g

Another article: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3184&p=5

All I can say is less is more. (edit) but if you are not sure pull it off after a day to make sure the amount used provided full coverage. I have tried all the methods and came back to putting a single dot or small + in the middle of the CPU, don't apply to both heatsink and CPU. A little...

I haven't seen any other boards that can really do much better with a 45nm 12mb cache chip, +25-50mhz FSB may look good in benchmarks but in my experience doesn't relate to real world performance. FSB architecture has reached the end of the line. Seems you can go with a new 12mb cach and get...

Looks like a one of those light conductor pieces of plastic that would sit on top of an LED.

I don't quite get why there is such a massive heatsink on the southbridge. ICH10 should be cooler running than the current 9 which is perfectly fine being passively cooled. And what is between the pci-x slots that needs cooling? Looks like an old 780i board with that nforce 200 chip to cool.

I have no more problems with the board. Took it out in the desert and unloaded 2 clips into it. Very happy with my new DFI.

Darth, I just ordered a GX2 block from DD. Can you give any temp change or OC results? Have you noticed any issues with the cooler?

Bad to hear. My second one came in today but I am out of town and will not be back to set it up till Friday. Hoping that my first was just a dud...

I got one and I am pretty sure it was bad. It would not run my qx9650 at stock settings stable, could not even boot windows or a floppy without crashing. I RMA'd to the egg and since they have de-listed the item they refunded my purchase price. I have pre-ordered another from m/b pro so I...

This de-listing really disturbs me, it does not even show up on the egg now. I just got this board and have issues. Seems to work great for guys with 65nm or 45nm duel core processors, but I am having great issues with a 45nm quad and so far have not found anyone that is having success...

I agree, go with the cas4 and you can always set the timings to cas5 if you feel it is causing instabilities. Or for a little more you could spring for this set and run the same 800 speed with even tighter timings and more room to overclock, if you are interested in that...

The step up option is great but there are really no motherboards on the market now that are future proof whether using ddr2 or 3 since a new motherboard will be required at the end of the year or beginning of next year for nehalem. My personal opinion is to wait for that M/B uprade to switch to...

This is what I have seen on power draw if you haven't seen them yet: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3271&p=2 http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ3OCw3LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA== In either one you are looking at 600w at least for video cards. That 1000w power...

Thanks Rax, I am trying Real Temp and it seems to work well with Vista X64. The readings are much more believable than Everest, it just makes no sense that a q6600 at 3.6 @ 1.44vcore would be cooler than a qx9650 at stock 3.0 @ less than 1.2vcore. But is it correct? The folks at...

I have a 9650 and see high temps also, thought it would be lower but at it's stock 3.0 my cores idle around 45c using everest to check. Yet in the bios it never reads above 26-27c. My old Q6600 would idle around 35 and top off at 58-60 and that was at 3.6. From what I have read, the core...