My heroe! :worship:
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I spent about 45 mins looking for a new version of that last night. The one on the MSI site doesn't support the CPU I'm using.
Deffinetly a nice board but somewhat expensive (I don't want to spend more than 200E per component even though I've got an unlimited budget.I know it sounds strange but it's standard price policy for me).Also I think it;s got some layout issues (if you look closer you'll notice that the last 2 pcie slots are to close .Of course this is important only if you want quadfire but that's exactly what I have in mind) and I don't like the built in ramsinks.I mean how am I supposed to use any decent ram modules that have ramsinks without voiding the warranty.However I might as well wait for the reviews and see what will happen by then or I migt pull the trigger and buy the gigabyte , but the placement of the pcie slots at this board is awfull .It's an actual heat trap tha could turn out to be a "death" trap for the 4 3850 512mb I'm planing to buy.
Well well well, I just so happened to be looking on Scan yesterday when i Noticed the board was back in stock :)
So i went ahead and ordered this -
Lian Li PC A05B
Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 5000+ Black
Corsair HX620
Zalman CNPS9700
2x 120mm Scythe S-FLEX 1200RPM
Corsair Dominator Airflow Fan
Gonna stick with my trusty x1900XT for now and wait for 3850 to show up video wise. Anything not on the list is being recycled from my existing build or my pile of bits in the corner of my room(X-Fi,Optical,HD,Mushkin Low Latancy 2GB DDR2 Kit)
Everything is nice:up: , but why Zalman?
It's too overpriced.
Ill be sure to get this baby along with a phenom.. good thing I dont have to spend $$$$ for the intel and still be in the same ballpark.
One question for quadfire.Will it work with 4x1950pro or just with newer one?
only hd38xx's supports CrossfireX
o man...:( I have 4 1950pro and I just wanted to try it in quadfire :D
430 FSB is yummy. Remember the last board I had was the Neo 2 Platinum could do 340 Mhz and that board was awesome :)
would expect far more then 430FSB... my Crosshair 590SLI does 400fsbx8 with reasonable stabilty!
Havnt really seen much amazment with this bord yet
I prefer the Zalmans mainly because i find the "built in" fan on the cooler reduces the chance of any werid resonance/vibrations happening that i am very sensitive to VS a cooler with a fan mounted onto it. Also the Zalmans even cranked to max RPM have a non intrusive "windy" fan noise. So yes its all about the Noise with the Zalmans .. though of corse they do look nice and are very well built as well :)
All greased up and no Phenom to shove in there!
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Can't finish the topside insulation yet, I need to be able to fit the bracket still as I want to play with air first, as we all will I guess :yepp:
Looking forward for som chilled water action from you mAJORD! Crossing my fingers for Phenom to fly under water!
Waiting for Phenom is akin to watching paint dry. heheheh
Little update to say I Just ordered a HD3870, the icing on my hopefully yummy DAMMIT cake :)
Will prehaps delay the build till i get the 3870,as the case and the rest of the stuff will(hopefully) arrive tomorrow but the 3870 will be monday/tuesday. Or I may not ... dont know yet heh.
Just come close. THat's all I ask. :D
Lightman, it peels off easily. Liquid electrical tape :)
Does any body know, what is the latest BIOS version for GA-MA790FX DQ6? I have F2i version dated with November 6, 2007.