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Nice HSF. Good cooling at a competitive price.

Looks like this was a 1200W unit at best that was overrated and butchered to cut costs. Etasis are pretty reliable but it seems that some "re-engineering" might have been attempted. Anybody know if the units arrive fully assembled or they are just OEM assembled boards if the OCP/OPP/OVP etc is...

If the only way to attain a maximum overclock on the FX is to disable a certain number of cores, then it is a bit unclear if the comparison is fair or not. The problem in comparing so many reviews is that there is no accepted definition of "apples to apples". Perhaps it would be a good idea to...

They did overclock the FX, but instead of blindly following what AMD suggested, decided not to disable cores, which, IMO presents a more accurate representation of the CPU's overclocking capabilities i.e, [H] got it right. The point you need to see is that, it was not possible to OC both CPU's...

There are other possibilities: a) AMD could not make enough. b) Stores threw it out with the trash. :)

Unless I am misssing something obvious, how is this any different from the zillion other heat-pipe HSFs? Perhaps the fan is more efficient, but I am hard pressed to believe that you can save any significant amount of energy. I guess you can spin numbers to make them look great, 40% of what? 1 nJ?

Good review as always. Did it make it through your 60 hour hot-box? PS# Is everybody and their brother hitting 600 FSB or is it more of a one off-thing?

It has been a while since I checked that calculator, but it seems reasonably accurate. 582W for this rig: Q6700 @3.5GHz HD4870 790/1100 2Gb DDR2 2 SATA HDDs 2 36Gb Raptors 1 DVD RW Antec 900's fans USB stuff 10% capacitor aging.

Looks like Intel have laid an egg. Who the hell would pay $250 for this? The CPU VRM arrangement looks a bit different from the arrangement seen on other boards. I have mostly seen even number of phases. It would be interesting to see the PWM controller being used.

In this case it would be akin to buying a $10000000 saddle for a $1 horse. :cool:

This unit did not exceed ATX specs on ripple. Perhaps the OEM was too lazy to make changes to the packaging.It is probably an 800W unit that was stretched out to 1010W. Not worth the money either. PS# The Fail logo is brilliant! I wonder how much flak Paul's going to cop for this...:D

Good read. Thank you! I hope official WHQL drivers are released soon. I'm running my HD4870 on the 8.7b's with no problems. I'm eagerly waiting to see how AMD tweaked the AA performance so much.

You should also remember that if your remove the CPU bottleneck, the GPU power consumption will soar. According to Hardware Canucks, their Quad @ 3.5 was proving to be a bottleneck. For a single card, that unit should be enough. If you are doing something extreme (cooling wise), I would go along...

I will go for the 4870 if it is sub $300. My current 3870 clocks very well and has given me no problems.

Well, so far my experience with ASUS has been overwhelmingly positive 975X, M2N-E, P35, 945...