Unfortunately they didnt use a Conroe chip.
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AppaYipYip said:Wow...that review is terrible.
Sneak said:Curious, that review said that even with all of the PCIe slots filled with double slot cards like the Nvidia 8800 that both PCI slots could still be used. I thought double slot cards covered up one of those PCI slots on most boards. So is this true? Can both PCI slots still be used on this board if you go SLI?
dR.Jester said:Will this motherboard be a problem if installed inside of this case?
DragoonTD said:Man those guys are on crack. Why didnt they use Conroe to test it...
warmace said:a what? According to google your the first to referr of this "Tijuana Handshake" you speak so highly about.
most mobos with heatpipes for chipset cooling don't have wicks in them at all but rely on gravity to return the condensate hence the problem.Bbq said:upside down heatpipes do NOT decrease performance. Period. Fullstop. The way a heatpipe works, is there is the fluid, and there is a wick in the middle. All the way up, all the way down. Now if you reverse the heatpipe, it sitll evaporates, it will still go down the wick. The only issue, is that the chipset will absorb all the heat from the mosfets. Not exactly fun.
The only exception to this, is the heatpipes with a partial wick. The wick stops part way through the pipe. It will only work one way.
Bbq said:upside down heatpipes do NOT decrease performance. Period. Fullstop. The way a heatpipe works, is there is the fluid, and there is a wick in the middle. All the way up, all the way down. Now if you reverse the heatpipe, it sitll evaporates, it will still go down the wick. The only issue, is that the chipset will absorb all the heat from the mosfets. Not exactly fun.
The only exception to this, is the heatpipes with a partial wick. The wick stops part way through the pipe. It will only work one way.
You are absolutely correct. The reason there's so much misconception is because the ASUS A8N and A8N32 boards, which were the first really good heatpiped boards, used...you guessed it: wick'd heatpipes. A lot of V1000 users got burned with it and assumed ALL heatpipes have these problems.Bbq said:upside down heatpipes do NOT decrease performance. Period. Fullstop. The way a heatpipe works, is there is the fluid, and there is a wick in the middle. All the way up, all the way down. Now if you reverse the heatpipe, it sitll evaporates, it will still go down the wick. The only issue, is that the chipset will absorb all the heat from the mosfets. Not exactly fun.
The only exception to this, is the heatpipes with a partial wick. The wick stops part way through the pipe. It will only work one way.
InorganicMatter said:You are absolutely correct. The reason there's so much misconception is because the ASUS A8N and A8N32 boards, which were the first really good heatpiped boards, used...you guessed it: wick'd heatpipes. A lot of V1000 users got burned with it and assumed ALL heatpipes have these problems.
ijozic said:He is correct regarding the heatpipes in general, but I'm not so sure when it comes to those used on mainboards (I guess those without wicks are way cheaper). I have the Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe and it comes with a warning that the board must not be mounted upside-down (or in which case, some alternate cooling should be provided). So, I expect the same behaviour from other Asus mainboards as well and quite possibly, from all the mainboards which use heatpipes. Can anyone confirm there are mainboards which actually use heatpipes WITH wicks?