I'll have more accurate temps in a minute, it's been running for a couple hours. Did you ever have mystery artifacts show up causing the board to shut itself off? I keep getting that while trying to install XP. No :? . Maybe the problem will be solved after installing the graphic drivers. Thanks fo...

It seems that the temperature sensors are wrong calibrated on my motherboard. Even if I put a fan directly on the NB rad, the temperature indicated in the bios stay blocked at 45°C (NB) and 65°C (SB). But my external thermal sensor (and my fingers) indicates that the heatsink are mutch cooler. But...

How much cooler is the nortbridge with the new heatsink? I may do that if it helps keep the ambient temp down. Well that's the problem, I can't remember anymore exactly the temperature that I had with the Intel cooler :oops: . That's why I asked you. Now I have: Temperature depends on the rear case...

What heatsink do you have on yours? That looks like a passive VGA cooler to me :shock: CPU: Coolermaster Gemini II NB: Enzotech CNBR1 SB: Enzotech CNBS1 (A little bit cutted on its border with a dremel because it was too big :D ) http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8168/27135267cp0.th.jpg

ICH Temp: 66C MCH Temp: 45C Thanks for the values. mmh. That's not much compared to mine. :? Are these temperature that you have at start up or after several hours? Mounted in a closed computer case??? My Southbrdige was over 100°C (but at touching it was not very hot) and the Northbridge at 75°C...

I'm connected with VGA (with an DVI-VGA converter), and I had no problem. One question. What is your ICH and MCH temperature after 1 or 2 hour usage? (See Bios, monitoring section) Thanks, I'm going to test on another monitor (don't have an adapter though, so I'll use DVI again), if it works I'll g...

The problem is that there is nothing to tweak, the Bios doesn't allow to change any voltage (chipset or CPU), frequence or multiplier. Using CPUID can you check the idle frequency multiplier and vcore? Have you set the Windows power profile to use the low-power consumption setting (in Windows XP, i...

First tests of the new G45 show that the HD hardware acceleration fonctionate well, but the quality is poor: G45 achieves only 30% at the HQV test... I think there is a lot of misinformation about this "quality". I myself assumed that the codecs were not decoded correctly, that some advanced featur...

I have it installed with an E7200. Well I'am disappointed. I have a power consumption of 80W full and 60 idle, with only 2 HDD (WD Green power) installed and a Gigabit Lan controller. Not good. What power supply are you using? Tell us if you find settings that help. Or what the power is without the...

I have it installed with an E7200. Well I'am disappointed. I have a power consumption of 80W full and 60 idle, with only 2 HDD (WD Green power) installed and a Gigabit Lan controller. http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5812/img2693kr3.th.jpg http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6654/img2696hn8.th.jpg ...

HQV is a benchmark, there is nothing to do or to configure. Maybe they meant that the system wasn’t configured properly in terms of drivers or software! To use PureVideo (NVidia) do you need to activate some feature in the driver or bios? NO To use VideoShaders (AMD) do you need to activate some ...

Also, for the ExtremeTech review, take that with a grain of salt. From what I've read, Intel is sticking with the spec while other competitors are working out of the spec for blu-ray, so only a few applications will actually take advantage of the hardware decoder. ExtremeTech didn't have a properly...

Although Intel’s CPUs are currently very dominant when building a fully featured HTPC AMD’s platform has a lot to offer and is generally considered to be superior to the Intel platform. Right. First tests of the new G45 show that the HD hardware acceleration fonctionate well, but the quality is...

I ordered this board and a Celeron 440 to go with it. Sorry to say but you have done the wrong choice. Why? 1. The Celeron is a 65nm CPU, the new one manufactured with 45nm process consume far less power. 2. Celeron CPU don't support EIST, that mean that your cpu consume max power constantly. The b...