please keep us updated on this board.....I am interested in the overall cooling and power consumption of this guy.

I'm running it and it's cooling my opteron really well. I liked that it was available locally so if I had problems I could return it. I can't hear it at 7v fan speed....but my other components are quiet not silent. It doesn't seem to have any annoying ticking or anything if that helps.

Man this NeoHE stuff really sucks.....I am sorry to hear about your problems.

search and you will find several zalman fan swap "how-to" threads.

the vf700 is the same as the 7000 and 7700 coolers for a swap.....look for those

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2597&p=3

this looks like a good card that has potential for passive cooling.....some people are already cooling their regular 7800GTs passively.

I also like the looks of that Asus motherboard below it.

these are in at techonweb for $130

I have thought about this too because I would like to take advantage of the speed of desktop HDDs I was wondering if you could simply use two copper pipes on each side of the hard drive, and then attach clamps that go around the pipes and screw into the side of the HDD. These clamps would simply be ...

crap, I was just about to buy a P150.....looks like I will still need to wait until I am sure they have the power supply sorted out. I understand that the motherboard might not meet the proper specs for a standard motherboard......but as others have pointed out there are plenty of other power suppli...

edit: oh duh nevermind.....saw you are using the board upside down.

i should actually read before i post

don't get a Logitech setup.....mine hums like a bastard and is very annoying.

anyone have experience with klipsch? (spelling?)

That's great to know. Now I can feel more confident buying a P150 the day they hit shelves

the 3200 is dropping to $155

might as well buy an opty with 1 meg cache tho

i've got a 146 CABYE getting here tomorrow......to bad all the CABNEs are snatched up. at least one person said they picked up a 148 very recently that was a CABNE.....might be worth the gamble.

afrost: All overclockers with S939 in mind should get an Opteron, but I guess you all know about that already. There's simply no reason to get an A64 for overclocking, except for availability. Yep, I have an Opty 146 arriving from Ewiz tomorrow as a matter of fact :P I decided to try out the Asrock...

edit: looks like the problems with the HE's are real Links please. Googling gets me nothing worthwhile, other than the one thread at [H]. I only read the thread at [H]. My original post was sort of flaming people that were saying these power supplies are bad....but after reading the whole [H] threa...

edit: looks like the problems with the HE's are real

the FD slot is sometimes used for other stuff like fan controls, flash readers, etc.

good news on the ship date, I'm excited to order this for a new A64 setup.

I think the white is kind of cool. It should turn out to be a really popular case......hopefully it does and that will convince Antec to make it in more colors.

great review!

I love the removable cables and integrated suspension. Sure DIY suspension is o.k. but how often do you see a clean DIY suspension that can take THREE drives and keep them cool with intake air?

i disagree that you will need 4 gigs in a year. unless you are using it as a workstation for engineering etc. games are the only thing that push a system like this. it is pointless to get four gigs of RAM unless you have one serious video card. vid cards and games aren't going to change THAT much in...

8) So anyway I am considering the Asrock board. There are a both positives and negatives to it in my mind. It is cheap, and it has an AGP slot, and it seems pretty close to nForce in performance. However, it doesn't have the best overclocking options.....and I get the sense that the people doing the...

I was just commenting on what I should purchase based on what I think is important. You constantly go off on rants on this forum.....it's just computer parts dude....chill

I truly doubt but i may be wrong.... that xbits is testing the actual card's draw on the psu and not just the accumulated wattage draw at the plug. I am doubting highly that they rewired their systems to isolate video card draw. And so, this would greatly effect total psu draw. --------- Just think...

Well if all you guys think this information is correct then this makes my life easier. This whole time I have been waiting around for a good ATI or ULI board because I wanted something that could be easily cooled passively, and would contribute less heat to overall case temperature. It seems there i...

so why can every chipset but nForce 4 be cooled with a passive sink that doesn't require heat pipes?

something seems wrong here....

one platter should be slightly less heat if nothing else.....

I like the idea of one platter

I love games like HL2, Battlefield 2 etc.

I hope they continue to advance graphics cards at a fast pace. If I have to watercool them to get jaw dropping graphics.....so be it

7800GT seems like an amazing card and can be cooled with a VF700.....so I don't think the current situation is that bad.

if Xbit labs is measuring the current of supply lines comming out of the power supply, the efficiency of the power supply doesn't matter. The efficiency is only taken in to account when you measure power draw from the wall....meaning your probe is before the power supply. power = voltage x current i...

Thanks for the info! Looks like a 7800GT for me. As far as performance the review at HardOCP showed that the 7800GT and X1800XL pretty much traded blows for performance and the ATI card has a couple of extra options for image quality. If they were the same price and heat I would grab the ATI. Looks ...

Is your computer Prime95 stable?

If you are certain that your reboot issues are related to video....you may want to try a registry cleaner like regestry mechanic etc.....have seen it clean up video driver problems in the past.