Asus M3A78-T: AMD's IGP Gets Another Boost

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Asus M3A78-T: AMD's IGP Gets Another Boost

Post by MikeC » Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:44 am

Asus M3A78-T: AMD's IGP Gets Another Boost
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Post by Spare Tire » Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:28 pm

Awww, just when i was hoping it'd be a 790GX µATX.
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Post by Cistron » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:49 am

Nice review, as always very consistent in methodology.

Is it possible to undervolt/underclock the IGP?
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Re: Asus M3A78-T: AMD's IGP Gets Another Boost

Post by speedkar9 » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:53 am

One thing I've always noticed with Asus motherboards:
Why do the Northridge Heatsinks have fins in the vertical direction, which is perpendicular to the typical front to back airflow in an ATX case?
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Re: Asus M3A78-T: AMD's IGP Gets Another Boost

Post by FartingBob » Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:03 am

speedkar9 wrote:One thing I've always noticed with Asus motherboards:
Why do the Northridge Heatsinks have fins in the vertical direction, which is perpendicular to the typical front to back airflow in an ATX case?
Most cases have intake fans at the bottom and exhaust and PSU fans at the top, so horizontal fins wouldnt help much, and vertical ones are vastly better for natural convection, which would play a bigger part in a low airflow system.
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Post by Lawrence Lee » Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:50 am

Cistron wrote: Is it possible to undervolt/underclock the IGP?
Look at the table on page 3.

speedkar9 wrote: Why do the Northridge Heatsinks have fins in the vertical direction, which is perpendicular to the typical front to back airflow in an ATX case?
My guess is they're designed for top-down airflow from the CPU cooler. Same goes for the VRM heatsink.
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Post by Cistron » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:42 pm

Lawrence Lee wrote:
Cistron wrote: Is it possible to undervolt/underclock the IGP?
Look at the table on page 3.
Thanks. Now the cheeky question: has anyone tried?
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Post by Tobias » Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:12 am

One question which I had after reading this is, wouldn't be possible to adjust the powerdraw figures for the processor? At least in idle? We do know how much the board draws at idle with [email protected] and if we got to know the figure for 2.5GHz@stock (not CnQ) we would have all that is needed to use the powerdraw formula backwards. Simply answering the question 'If we increase clock by 2/5 and decrease voltage by 1/5 and get a power increase of 10W, how much did the CPU draw to begin with?'

And I guess that figuring out how much a RAM stick and a harddrives use in idle shouldn't be extremely hard to find out, right?
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Post by _MarcoM_ » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:28 am

Is the lan a pci ethernet, or a pci-e? It is unclear from the review.
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Post by Monkeh16 » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:36 pm

_MarcoM_ wrote:Is the lan a pci ethernet, or a pci-e? It is unclear from the review.
The frankly impressive three different NICs their site has downloads for suggest PCI-E.
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