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What's with the trend to put enormous southbridge heatsinks on the board that have no fins? This seems very....inefficient.
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I think it's supposed to send the SB's heat to the NB cooler, that connection between them probably has a heatpipe in it.
Seriously, what is up with that northbridge cooler? If your GPU blows up it will shield the CPU from the shrapnel I guess. |
11-20-2008, 11:46 AM
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I think it's supposed to send the SB's heat to the NB cooler, that connection between them probably has a heatpipe in it.
Seriously, what is up with that northbridge cooler? If your GPU blows up it will shield the CPU from the shrapnel I guess.
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It's like Japan(and most cities  ). They ran out of room(area)...so they had to build upwards.
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I really don't like the complicated and ostentatious NB cooler. X58 NB does not contain memory controller, so why does Gigabyte wants to put that much cooling capacity on it?
More over, I'm puzzled by the use of large heatsink for the SB. Does GA-X58 Extreme contains N200 chip?
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[Today 04:12 PM] Eurasianman: Nehalem, here I come 
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[Today 06:51 PM] Viperabyss: [Seal] also made use of his [wiener] too...just different purpose
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11-20-2008, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by MeltDown
I think it's supposed to send the SB's heat to the NB cooler, that connection between them probably has a heatpipe in it.
Seriously, what is up with that northbridge cooler? If your GPU blows up it will shield the CPU from the shrapnel I guess.
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Its something that may very well happens to SF 
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[Today 04:12 PM] Eurasianman: Nehalem, here I come
[Today 07:34 AM] *Eurasianman goes and orders a Core i7 setup*
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[Today 06:51 PM] Viperabyss: [Seal] also made use of his [wiener] too...just different purpose
[Today 06:51 PM] Eurasianman: no wonder my ass hurts
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11-20-2008, 12:19 PM
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It has hardware level RAID?
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I really don't like the complicated and ostentatious NB cooler. X58 NB does not contain memory controller, so why does Gigabyte wants to put that much cooling capacity on it?
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Bigger looks more enthusiast-like, adds to the "value" so they can jack up the price, and makes it more likely to have a colour change and get Fatal1ty label slapped across it to jack up the price more. |
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GIGABYTE GA-EX58-EXTREME LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
2 oz copper PCB & support 3 SLI/ 3 ATI crossfire
P.S. I think that I'm going to get one, if I'm going to do my first DIY, I might as well go large.  |
I just purchased a GIGABYTE GA-EX58-EXT on eBay for $248.24 using Microsoft Cash Back.
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VERY nice.
So how many Nehalems are you gonna have up now?
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11-22-2008, 05:48 PM
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VERY nice.
So how many Nehalems are you gonna have up now?
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Will only be one build, and I should not be doing that. But what the hell, is that not what credit cards are for.  
I'll default on payment and get the tax payers to bail me out.
So far I have the following here or on order.
INTEL CORE i7-965 SOCKET1366 3.2GHz EXTREME 8MB RETAIL $1079.00 - $200.00 cash back = $879.00 Free Shipping @eBay
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-EXT RETAIL $330.00 - $82.75 = $247.25 + Shipping @ eBay
Antec Skeleton ATX Tower Computer Case RETAIL $189.95 - $ 47.46 Instant Discount - $30.00 for applying for BUY.com Credit Card = $112.49 + Shipping @ BUY.com
Total so far: $1238.74 + Shipping. 
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An EXTREME? 
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11-22-2008, 08:09 PM
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An EXTREME? |
If anyone does things in a big way..... it's Leganfuh. 
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Haha. Leganfuh is the definition of EXTREME!
If you're gonna go, you might as well go all the way!
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nothing to do with folding i assume?
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