I'm all in favor of moving away from the legacy ports, but is this a new trend to put radiators and shrouds where the parallel/serial ports used to reside?
BTW, what IS with that yellow shroud on the Elitegroup board?
I have been told by Jetway as of June 8 2005 that the A210GDAG-Pro motherboard will not be available in the USA. The A210GDMS-Pro (uAtx version) is available thru Newegg.
Hasn't it been proven heatspreaders are usually a waste of time anyway? Isn't the best way to cool these things, good airflow. When I say usually I mean on your mid-high end DDR400 DIMMs, not on the ultra-fast 3.6V stuff.
Guys, that diamond was a good heat conductor was news to me but that carbon fibre should be is very surprising. "Carbon" as a conductor per se does not mean anything because the particular allotrope will determine physical and other properties. The fibres are made of graphite sheets which are very *poor* conductors of heat (I remember holding graphite in blue bunsen flames and feeling nothing). I presume Geil knows what it is doing but am nevertheless surprised that carbon fibre should not insulate (maybe it dissipates heat very effectively though?).
Anyone have any experience with Jetway? Their uATX Radeon Express board has Azalia whatever sound with 32MB on board memory with 4 dimms for a 939 socket athlon and a reliable ULi southbridge instead of the buggy ATI ones. Not bad for $95. No gbe though, but big deal.
However, such little carbon is really not going to affect the thermals of the system. Besides, even if it transfers heat well, there still has to be surface area of the heat to dissapate.
No. Carbon is an excellent conductor of heat. It's the reason why diamond is the best conductor of heat in the world - it is very densely-packed carbon..or something like that.
well, personally i fancy the corsair led RAMs, but even MORE Important to me is the last pace MINI PC...
...i'm currently looking for a SILENT FANLESS PC; should be reasonably powered, can be a MINI PC, better if it has at least a 3 5'25" slots space so that i can put a 5 SATA bloc on it.
How comes even though the Geil RAM is running at DDR2-1066, it's still only through-putting 2896MB/s - pretty low isn't it for such fast RAM (I'm aware of the timings, but still)...
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nserra - Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - link
Any one know what speed FX57 will work?Acording to my mobo web site is 2.6Ghz, anyone?
http://www.asrock.com/support/CPU_Support/CPUSuppo...
nserra - Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - link
I agree with #17 i want some Uli board review.I have been installing Asrock K8 Combo-Z, K8Upgrade-1689 or 939A8X-M and all look good.
Houdani - Monday, June 13, 2005 - link
I'm all in favor of moving away from the legacy ports, but is this a new trend to put radiators and shrouds where the parallel/serial ports used to reside?BTW, what IS with that yellow shroud on the Elitegroup board?
kmmatney - Sunday, June 12, 2005 - link
So when are we going to get a review of a ULi based motherboard? Anandtech has hinted at good things...flatblastard - Sunday, June 12, 2005 - link
#9 xsilverYeah, that new external uGuru looks like a cheap Atomic clock. I saw one just like it at Walgreens the other day, lol.
cwroten - Sunday, June 12, 2005 - link
I have been told by Jetway as of June 8 2005 that the A210GDAG-Pro motherboard will not be available in the USA. The A210GDMS-Pro (uAtx version) is available thru Newegg.plewis00 - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
Hasn't it been proven heatspreaders are usually a waste of time anyway? Isn't the best way to cool these things, good airflow. When I say usually I mean on your mid-high end DDR400 DIMMs, not on the ultra-fast 3.6V stuff.JNo - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
Guys, that diamond was a good heat conductor was news to me but that carbon fibre should be is very surprising. "Carbon" as a conductor per se does not mean anything because the particular allotrope will determine physical and other properties. The fibres are made of graphite sheets which are very *poor* conductors of heat (I remember holding graphite in blue bunsen flames and feeling nothing). I presume Geil knows what it is doing but am nevertheless surprised that carbon fibre should not insulate (maybe it dissipates heat very effectively though?).sprockkets - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
Anyone have any experience with Jetway? Their uATX Radeon Express board has Azalia whatever sound with 32MB on board memory with 4 dimms for a 939 socket athlon and a reliable ULi southbridge instead of the buggy ATI ones. Not bad for $95. No gbe though, but big deal.Avalon - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
I wonder if that little net box 500mhz 1 watt machine is running an AMD Geode.Eug - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
Thanks, I see.So carbon is a good electrical insulator, but also a good thermal conductor.
Learn something new every day.
xsilver - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
good news to hear that abit is out of troublebut what the hell is going on with their guru clock?
looks ugly as hell
the 5.25" one in an older article (with the bios nuke button) was nice but not this new external one
KristopherKubicki - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
Correct about the diamonds.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond
However, such little carbon is really not going to affect the thermals of the system. Besides, even if it transfers heat well, there still has to be surface area of the heat to dissapate.
Kristopher
futuristicmonkey - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
#6No. Carbon is an excellent conductor of heat. It's the reason why diamond is the best conductor of heat in the world - it is very densely-packed carbon..or something like that.
Eug - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
Wouldn't the carbon fibre act as an insulator?monsoon - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
well, personally i fancy the corsair led RAMs, but even MORE Important to me is the last pace MINI PC......i'm currently looking for a SILENT FANLESS PC; should be reasonably powered, can be a MINI PC, better if it has at least a 3 5'25" slots space so that i can put a 5 SATA bloc on it.
anybody able to give directions ?
=)
THANKS
Furen - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
500mhz@1w, windows ce... sounds awfully like the craptastic AMD PIC. Though I must admit, it looks a lot more interesting in a decent-looking boxryanv12 - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
that red foxconn mini-system is an eyesore.plewis00 - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
How comes even though the Geil RAM is running at DDR2-1066, it's still only through-putting 2896MB/s - pretty low isn't it for such fast RAM (I'm aware of the timings, but still)...Souka - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
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