I suspect the power consumption will be like there's never an idle state.

I don't get it. You state that HybridPower only works with 9800 GTX, then you go on to test with GTX260 and say HybridPower doesn't save power. Well obviously.

The new ATI 4870 is more power hungry than ever. Now would have been a good time to make powerxpress available to desktops.

Not true about the new via nano. It kick atom's ass and very low power consumption.

How about wait for a Via Nano (isaiah) board with nVidia chipset?

Well, PCI is a parallel interface and you can split it up with one to two raiser boards. There are sexy mini-ITX case out there that has 2 horizontal slots for expansion cards.

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http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9640/amd_ ... index.html

Supports dual slot cards for quad crossfire???

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/DFI-Cr ... ,5598.html

Totally mongoloïd!

There are Via mini-ITX boards with LVDS LCD connectors that uses the same format as laptop LCDs, it's one of those things that industrial PC workstations use, though i've never tried that out. There's still the powering of the LCD. If you want to try that, tell us how it turns out.

No, I don't think the XP-90 + fan will fit. From the pics we've seen so far, my guess is the total internal height is about 95mm - 100mm, and the CPU cooler clearance around 80mm - 85mm. Plus, ventilation on the top appears somewhat limited and doesn't seem to be positioned above the CPU, so ideall...

Well, yes, i'm aware of those points. But i wonder if they'll support the hybrid power on the 9900 soon enough or if the driver division will just sit there lazy doing jack for months.

If only ATI would make powerXpress for desktop chipset, their cards would be much more appealing to me.

My problem is i see nothing wrong with any of my caps on visual inspection. And i might be wrong but from looking at the caps they look like panasonic i've seen on the net. I don't know if i should spend the some 40$ to recap everything from 470µF up with quality stuff when that's half the price of...

I want to make a silent gaming machine with nvidia's Hybrid Power motherboard + a 9800GTX. The prospect of a powerful gaming card completly powering off while not gaming is a very attractive idea. Does the 9800GTX fit into the NSK2400? I think it's 10'5 long.

I have a motherboard that is acting really unstable lately. I recently put an athlon black edition on recently, and even not overclocked it's unstable. I would die more often when paired with tighter timing ddr2 ram, fare a bit better with 5-5-5-15. When i took it out for inspection, i found no popp...

Hybrid crossfire doesn't turn off the discrete gpu, at least according the marketting material, it would be called powerxpress. Hybrid crossfire is just crossfire between igp and discrete gpu.

Well i would gladly wait the 10 seconds it takes to start the 9800gtx before a game.

AMD totally lacks vision. PowerXpress would allow us to put the loudest, most performant radeon into the case and not have it turn on at all until we game. Why the hell would they not think it worth it.

Okay, now i got it on. The next question is.... how do i get it off! It's crazy, i had to pry one side out and that eroded the head of the clip on that side.

Which DESKTOP motherboard or chipset support this, and it has to be coupled with which graphics card? There seems to be no information out there, and plenty of contradictions. 780G was supposed to support powerxpress, but then didn't. Then they said it would at a later time. Does that mean it will b...

Well, since intel will only be making IGP for intel, if nvidia wanted to cut the grass underneath intel's feet, they'll have to be making IGPs for intel too.

You should have done all the installing on your normal hard drive, and then copy over the image to the SSD once every is done. It would have saved write cycles too.

An odd question it would seem but do you have any USB headers on the board? Like for front case? Very bizare thing with my computer is that it would sometimes boot and most time not when i had the front case USB plugged into the last header (7&8 in my case), the logic being i wanted to leave 5&6 and...

Actually, i think ATX standards never specified the existance of an "exhaust fan" other than the PSU.

Thanks. Seems like i'll have to remove the motherboard from the NSK2400 before if i want to push down both at the same time.

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I heard two sticks has more change of being able to run on 1T timing and that nobody got four sticks to do that, all at 2T.

Mikey wrote:Good review!

I'd be curious to know what temperatures could be achieved using the Antec Fusion, as it has an airflow pattern which doesn't usually perform well with this type of arrangement.

Any chance of a quick test?

Before that, does it even fit in a NSK2400/Fusion?

Does the desktop 780G support powerXpress like the mobile? Early previews said that it did. If it doesn't, i'm gonna go with nvidia HybridPower instead. It's wierd, since before the parts were released, wikipedia made it look like the 780G was the most energy efficient chipset because it was on 55n...

On a side note, i tried to mount a Mini Ninja on a thermalright rev B module and it did not fit. The 478 clip base was too large and the AM2 bracket isn't square like the 478. Don't ask my why i needed to do that when the Mini Ninja has an AM2 clip, i can't get that piece of shit to clip on the firs...

My tablet pc is on a CF card. It's running WinXP Tablet edition, plus some necessary components taken from WinXP Embedded. I've put a write filter on top of the CF containing the system partition, so it should last me as long as i want. Being a portable machine by nature, running out of ram for the ...

It sucks that they didn't make it low-profile instead of depressing the bottom.