ASUS announces new SLI motherboards w/ passive cooling
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ASUS announces new SLI motherboards w/ passive cooling
Haven't seen this posted yet, so thought I'd mention it. It looks like ASUS has announced some new Athlon64 and Pentium 4 SLI motherboards. Besides having dual 16x PCI Express when using SLI (existing boards had dual 8x), it also uses a new heatpipe solution to take heat away from the chipset to two heatsinks at the 'back' near the I/O ports. It's going to come with two fans that can be mounted on these heatsinks if your using a water cooling or fanless CPU heatsink solution, otherwise it'll depend on existing airflow via case fans and the like.
You can read about it here and HardOCP also has some pictures on their news page here.
It's good to see a major motherboard manufacturer paying more attention to quiet cooling solutions. Hopefully the rest will start to follow suit. Now, if only this had been available when I'd bought my MSI K8N SLI Diamond...
You can read about it here and HardOCP also has some pictures on their news page here.
It's good to see a major motherboard manufacturer paying more attention to quiet cooling solutions. Hopefully the rest will start to follow suit. Now, if only this had been available when I'd bought my MSI K8N SLI Diamond...
Pipelines? I don't think that's the word you're looking for here. Both SLI slots are PCIe 16x though, that's probably what you mean. It doesn't provide any improvement at all with current cards, but I guess it could be seen as good for future proofing your mobo investment.mprezd wrote:Now has 16 pipelines rather than 8 per gpu. Also the 8 phase power which I believe adds heat dissipation.mg1394 wrote:Any reason for this board to be significantly better than the A8N-SLI premium?
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Dude I'm told todaynoac wrote:Im told october.Feyrhel wrote:Any chance these will come out around the holidays? I might consider going with the new boards instead of an A8N Premium.
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/ho ... 2slid.html
BTW the heatpipe and the heatsink are all copper now. looks better than the a8n-sli premium but I don't like the placement of the pci slots. Also if asus could only move the atx12v like the DFI so we can use the S12
A8N-SLI Premiumwindsok wrote:Would there be any issues with some CPU coolers not fitting on this board? the heatpipes look to go pretty close to the cpu slot.
I would want to use something like a Zalman CNPS7700-AlCu with it.
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And a review is out
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?d ... ew&dId=813
I don't care about scores as much as I care about the heatsink and the 8-Phase Power.
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?d ... ew&dId=813
I don't care about scores as much as I care about the heatsink and the 8-Phase Power.
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seems to fit perfectly on the a8n-sli premium. However the optional fans might be tricky.Ryan Norton wrote:Do we think the Scythe would fit on here? Those two HSes around the CPU bracket look like they might get in the way of the Scythe's heatpipes.
I really want to do away with my MSI Neo4 Platinum because there's just no good way to passive-ify the NF4 HS fan...
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... c&start=60
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Well If you didnt know Im about to make your day. For socket 775 the P5N32-SLi Deluxe will be released at the same time as the 939 a8n32-sli deluxe. And to be frank it looks even better than the 939 model.frostedflakes wrote:Man, that board is freaken sweet. Makes me kind of bummed I'm using Socket 754. All the cool new tech. is only available on S939.
http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l ... odelmenu=1
Btw, it's my next mobo.
Socket 754 != Socket 775noac wrote:Well If you didnt know Im about to make your day. For socket 775 the P5N32-SLi Deluxe will be released at the same time as the 939 a8n32-sli deluxe. And to be frank it looks even better than the 939 model.frostedflakes wrote:Man, that board is freaken sweet. Makes me kind of bummed I'm using Socket 754. All the cool new tech. is only available on S939.
http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l ... odelmenu=1
Btw, it's my next mobo.
"All the cool new tech. is only available on S939." S939 != S775toaom wrote:Socket 754 != Socket 775noac wrote:Well If you didnt know Im about to make your day. For socket 775 the P5N32-SLi Deluxe will be released at the same time as the 939 a8n32-sli deluxe. And to be frank it looks even better than the 939 model.frostedflakes wrote:Man, that board is freaken sweet. Makes me kind of bummed I'm using Socket 754. All the cool new tech. is only available on S939.
http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l ... odelmenu=1
Btw, it's my next mobo.
Im very aware that he didn't have a 775 system. But he is not saying all the cool new tech is only avail on 939 and 775. He might be an intel-man and will be happy to see, if he didnt already know it, that the cool stuff also comes to 775 which isnt that far from 774 in comparision to 939.
But thanks for pointing that out - I need to be clearer.
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