AMD R790 Thermal Disipation

Good job AMD not release a good CPU and competition will be back at least for a while ;)

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Originally Posted by Mekrel

I'll believe it when I see it.

This is basically a ATi chipset with AMD's name on it (being as AMD never had their own chipset out for sockets 754/939).

Past chipsets such as RD580/RD600 were supposed to have low TDP and run amazingly cool, but neither did.

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Thanks to OCW for the Review of the socket 754 AMD based chipset board.

SOYO K8USA ALi M1687/ M5283 RAID Athlon64 Socket 754
AMD Socket-754 Athlon 64 Based on AMD 8151 Chipset ATX Motherboard Supporting 400 MHz FSB, DDR400/333, 6-ch audio, 8X AGP PRO, overclock capability, 10/100/1000 Mbps Giga LAN, USB 2.0, Serial ATA, IEEE 1394

BLACK LABEL EDITION
The Black Label represents the new breed of quality and bundling value that Soyo is known for. The NEW Black Label Edition includes the NEW BayONE XP 7-in1 Flash Memory Reader/Writer supporting the USB 2.0 Interface with front panel access CMOS reset jumper. It also bundles with S/PDIF Digital Audio Interface card for the true surround sound effect, and 2 ports 1394 IEEE Firewire Bracket. The 8-in1 software bundle includes Norton Anti-Virus. The Black Label edition will give more "BANG out of your BUCK!"

Embedded ALI M5283 RAID chip, provide Two channel serial ATA and One channel parallel ATA with RAID 0,1
On board VIA VT6120 Giga LAN chip, provides 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet function
On board VIA 6306 chip provides 3* IEEE 1394 ports
Anti Burn Regulator to prevent system from overheating CPU core voltage, FSB & multiplier adjustable via BIOS setup via DIP switch
Serial ATA
Adjustable DIMM voltage
Adjustable AGP Voltage
Flexible PCI Divider and APIC/IRQ Sharing Options
Supports High-speed USB 2.0 ports
Supports IEEE 1394
Supports Smart Card Reader Connector
Supports Wake On LAN (WOL) function to simplify network management
Suspend to RAM, Suspend to Disk
Supports S1, S3, and S4
Overclocking Capability: CPU, DIMM, and AGP Voltage adjustable, CPU FSB, and AGP Frequency. Adjustable."

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Originally Posted by Shintai

So wrong wrong wrong wrong. You think even the lowend boards with a small northbridge heatsink would have a heatsink on the southbridge if it wasn´t required with razor thin margins?

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i'm pretty sure a small passive heatsink would cost a mobo manufacturer a dollar, maybe less. its just a scrap of metal, and heatpipes are also surprisingly cheap (i got a 2 metre long 1cm diameter heatpipe for 15 nz dollars, ~$10 US). an obvious reason for rollercoasters on Intel mobos is the design of the Intel stock heatsink design - the area around the socket gets airflow in all directions. heaps of 775 mobo cooling systems seem to be designed to take advantage of that. but i think there's a lot more 'marketing' in it than science, because c2d is known as a great clocker, so putting 5 dollars worth of heatpipes and copper fins on a motherboard is subliminal marketing to give the impression that the board is overclocking friendly.