Excellent review. Is the USB3 finally bootable? My 880/890GX aren't ! With CPU + GPU combined in the same die are huge coolers still necessary? I'm annoyed with Gigabyte's lack of fan control but I'm sticking with them because of Asus' overall quality problems.

XBMC works ok for you? It crashes on my machines, but it's the only way I know to play commercial DVDs in Linux. I get suspend/resume freezing & video corruption.

protellect wrote:
Though I admit, the stock AMD heatsink is ... painful.

Only if improperly inserted

Both of them are way overkill for a file server if you ask me. :) Yes the performance as file server is fine with my 4850e CPU. I am a little bit "torn between two hay taps" or what they say. It is nice to make use of my low power 4850e CPU, it works withot problems for most tasks, but a little bit...

I'm getting 39.5W at idle with Phenom II 965 and ATX seasonic X-650

Second post with photo here:

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He should have bee tried, convicted and put in a special jail at ground zero, where visitors can see him and feed him like a zoo animal. I bet a lot of people would visit New York just to feed Osama some peanuts. Better still - pork scratchings... :lol: ah yes, a balanced diet would be more humanit...

Why did they shoot him? They should have taken him alive, there were only 18 people in the compound, mostly his women and children... and he was unarmed! He should have bee tried, convicted and put in a special jail at ground zero, where visitors can see him and feed him like a zoo animal. I bet a l...

38W is about average for today's systems, Intel or AMD. I get 39.5, see 2nd post with photo in thread:

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keyboard/mouse wakeup you enable through power option in WIndows and /etc/rc.local in Linux

I have some, its height is at or below the socket.

K10stat works fine though vista/win7 isn't my choice OS. For AMD Phenom II 9xx you can easily undervolt 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 0.9V

Back home we call this a humidifier

About your "HARD DRIVE MOUNTING & ISSUES". Is it safe to mount 2.5" drives flat against a metal surface without any standoffs? Isn't there a chance of shorting the HD electronics?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-0 ... -deal.html

Hitachi was my favorite, so my Travelstars are now collector's items.

Copycats, Prolimatech type mounting hardware and... are those Ninja style lug nuts on top?!!

Very interesting stuff. Mini ITX is very easy to cool, no need for stack effect, but it would be fun to try with 125W+ CPU / GPU.

Depending on what you're doing, you can use an infrared filter on your camera for visual-relative temp readings.

AM3 890GX mobos will be hard to find for a while.

I'm not a fan of this one, but Lian-Li has no preconceived ideas about cases, so it's always exciting to see their creations. I see European influence in their designs recently... schön

Another socket!? LGA775/1155/LGA1156/1366... why is Intel doing this?


PS:Every time I buy a heatsink from thermalright or prolimatech I get several sets of mounting hardware that i don't want or need.. Are AMD users subsidizing Intel customers?


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A fair review should mention that despite the high price Lian-Li cases, in my experience, carry no warranty in North America. there is a warranty option on the lian li contact page: http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/contact_us/contact_us.php Do you work for Mr. Li? Everybody knows that Lian-Li does NOT ...

A fair review should mention that despite the high price Lian-Li cases, in my experience, carry no warranty in North America. There's no Li-USA or even a phone # to call. If you have a defective or missing part the only remedy is to return the whole thing within 30 days. If you were paying for this ...

I use Arctic Silver (5?) and the stuff that came with Thermalright and Prolimatech heatsinks... they all work about the same. When I'm testing temporary setups I go bare-metal, I don't even bother with TIM because you have to clean it afterwords. Bare-metal works OK with good heatsinks, runs only a ...

This one looks a lot like the Thermalright AXP-140. I've always wanted to mount a CPU-caliber heatsink on a GPU. I bet I can mount the AXP-140 on a GPU with 775 brackets, sort of like this:

Thanks, great review, though the Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme Rev.C is hardly new, I've been using one since November 2009. With the AMD scissor mount, the cooler indeed overhangs the bolts making them hard to reach. But you can twist the heatsink a few degrees clockwise, enough to get a straight ...

What's wrong with magic packet wake-up form S3? A tap on the keyboard also works.

ha, you put a honking video card on that itty bitty mobo... 55w is very good, does the NVIDIA card throttle when idle? Yep. If the video card didn't, there's no way it'll use just 55W idle. Haven't really put it through my usual battery of tests (Furmark, IBT, etc), though. I don't think the GTS 45...

Stock.

ha, you put a honking video card on that itty bitty mobo... 55w is very good, does the NVIDIA card throttle when idle?

My AMD Phenom II X4 965 + GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H + two 2.5" hds + 3 fans + DVD burner idles at 39.5 watts at the wall. OS can make some difference especially Linux without AMD proprietary video driver.

NoizEnvader wrote:Yes, it fits without blocking PCI-e or memory slots.

Have a look over here.

Thanks, I can't believe he's mounting an AXP-140 without a backplate!