Did anyone try to remove the heatsink on the chipset and power regulation thing on the J&W minix? My 90nm athlon x2 3800+ is running at 38C without undervolt, very reasonable and the heatsink is warm to the touch. On the other hand, the chipset is at 55C and it's barely warm, so there's a serious pr...

Benchmarks say nano is better. But there are no nano on the market yet so not much to be had there.

Viewsonic VX2025VM. An excellent budget panel, it's not TN, but i don't remember what it was. No whine with any brightness setting. I think it's because it doesn't adjuste the backlight at all, it only adjusts the liquid cristal to let less light go through. Downside would be a higher power consumpt...

Since catalyst 8.x (i don't remember which!) hybrid crossfire now works in XP. And as for running off only the IGP, and turning off the dedicated video card, are you sure??!!! Do you know this for fact? Does your video card's fan turn off? This is the first time after release of hybrid crossfire tha...

Since i can't get the dedicated graphics card to turn off like with hybridpower, i thought i might as well be making use of the IGP in a crossfire, or else why would i buy a 780G over say a 740G? So has anyone tried a hybrid crossfire with a high end card and what benefit is there in such a setup? P...

dont you need to plug in both the 20pin AT power and the 4pin p4?

EDIT: nevermind, my bad, i thought it was a mini-itx, looks like a pico or nano-itx
i see a molex connector, how about that one, plug it in (check your manual first of all i guess)

Anybody has this board? I want to know for sure if it supports hybrid power. Some reviewers on newegg says it only supports hybrid boost but not hybrid power. He tried with his 9800GTX and 9800GTX2 or something and it didn't work for him but maybe the drivers were just not ready back then or maybe h...

Will it collapse with everything installed inside?

Well I just found out that a Scythe Shuriken will not fit on the J&W Minix 780G-SP128MB if you use both two So-Dimm memory slots. Great. :( Any suggestions on a alternative cpu cooler for this board i.c.m with a Psile case? I was gonna try the shuriken but then it was too tall for my mini-itx case ...

Hum, i wonder if i could fit a 120x120x20mm slim yate loon in there.

Would the board do hybrid crossfire with one of those rare PCI radeons? I remember they released a recent one lately.
Found that the HD2400 exists in PCI.

Wicked. How did they mount it onto the GPU?

Quite useless to be plugging that powerful dual slot GPU to the 4x pcie.
Anyways, there are other boards out there with full 16x pcie slots, i don't see why not here.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/10715-thermalright-t-rad%B2-video-card-cooler-review.html This one looks like it would fit into the NSK2480 as far as height goes. I'm not sure if it was meant to be run passive though. I was always under the impression that the default H...

Awww, just when i was hoping it'd be a 790GX µATX.

My old M2NPV-VM had a composite out on a pci bracket with a cord you plug into a pin header on the board. It came with it, didn't have to buy anything else. It's just not 775 though.

How much power do i need for a J&W minix + 2 sticks of ram + an old 3800+ x2 windsor core athlon + two HDD + radeon HD2400?
The most powerful mini-itx powersupplies i see are like 200W but they are for automotive, i just want one for wall socket with an adaptor.

Also had it overheat once installing a game - star wars BF2. I had to leave the room and when I got back the computer was just cycling on/off to the bios screen. The case was real warm and the CPU temp listed in the bios was 78 C. Not sure the cause and hasn't happened again. May have to install an...

The albatron looks to be the exact same thing as the J&W. Perhaps the bios will be different?

I don't know if anyone mentionned it yet but the x16 PCI-e on the J&W is actually just PCI-e 2.0 x4 electrically. Do you think a HD2400 would run full bandwidth in there?

scythe shuriken might be a good one

XP-120 without fan would most probably fit. With fan would most probably not fit.

Hum, now that the 4550 is on it's way and might be available in low-profile, and hopefully you can crossfire them, the question of how good it'll be to have a three way 4300+4550+4550 would perform becomes even more intreeguing. And if that works out, we can use a full size ATX power supply with the...

Perhaps a good old XP-120 if it fits, and if you can still find it.

It is possible for there to be a reduction of heat if accompanied by an increase in dissorder.

The PC-C36 has a TFX 300W PSU, with a backplate that can be switched between 4 low-profile expantions or 2 full size expantions with riser card. The PC-C37 can take a full size ATX PSU, with a fixed 4 low-profile expantions. PC-C36 is at least ~200$ and the PC-C37 is at least ~150$. They are less th...

Naw, i'm looking for PCI-e x16 and PCI.

The power supply of my mini-itx case tops out at 120W, 4870x2 would overshoot this by a mile, and being a 2 slot solution, it'll take up the second expand for the PCI (which defeats the whole purpose of me looking for a mini-itx board with a PCI and a PCI-e). How badass a CPU and GPU do you want to ...

I think the marketting term for that technology is powerXpress, and ATI only mentions it for their mobile M780G. From what i can tell, 790GX doesn't support powerXpress.

Are there any mini-itx board with two expantion slot, one PCI, one PCI-e? I know MSI Fuzzy has some with intel chipsets (old 965) but are there other? Preferably something that can do hybrid cross-fire or hybrid SLI.

Forcing Via to release early? How about competitive pressure. They're losing an opportunity to beat the atom. Wait till next year and things will be different.