not 100%, our engineers had already gone home that night
thank you
but even the heatsink?
where did you think those names come from?
yes, i think so too, just look at the foxconn boards from 1 year ago
they looked and overclocked like ecs boards :P hehe
this board is not the quantum force board, so there will be a board with a lot more beefy pwm for cpu, nb and memory, optimized layout for overclocking, higher voltages, more voltage options, more bios options etc etc
regarding the memory, well... especially earlier stepping nehalem chips are sensitive to memory voltage and some died with 1.9v after just some hours :S
but the recent chips seem to work fine with up to 2.3v, at least for benching.
intels official statement however, is that more than 1.65v vdimm is not recommended as it may degrade the lifetime of the processor.
i think intel is playing it safe here with 1.65v, and the newer settpings seem to be much better in that regard, so... it SHOULD be ok to run 2v 24/7...
id recommend you guys to start with 1.65v and move up bit by bit and check if its scaling at all... if you cant get higher with more vdimm then the imc might not like higher volts and forcing it might damage/degrade it.
bring it on!
yes, there will be power and reset buttons glad you like the colors
and yes, i asked them to remove ide and floppy countless times but they are worried itll hurt sales of the boards... people like us dont care, but there are still some people who do, especially system integrators tend to be very conserative...
you really use eSATA? what for?
tbh that was one of the things i recommended to remove as well...
yeah
i recommended them to add even more and not leave an empty space for the PWM heatsink ventilation since i doubt that does a lot anyways :P
for stock operation its ok i guess... i forwarded them your concerns and they are testing the cooling performance again and check alternative solutions.
yeah, if you rip off the cover and put a fan on top it works pretty well actually
yes indeed! i forgot to mention that, thanks a lot for the nice pics petri!
buying that cam sure was worth it
well i think it was somebody not technical at all who interpreted things this way. vcore and vdimm were never tied. there MAY have been an internal relation between vcore and vdimm however, or a relation of vdimm vtt and vcore, or vdimm vtt and cpu vtt (most likely) which resulted in high vdimm indirectly killing/damaging the cpu. but actually early chips didnt like ANY voltage to be above 1.65v or they would degrade or die, which some intel people told us sounds like a manufacturing process limitation... which makes most sense to me as well...
anyways, it seems to be fixed/improved in the C stepping now
not really, you can use 1600 and higher, there are some vendors preparing tripple channel memory kits with low vdimm already
sweet!
really? didnt know orange was that popular. maybe its cause its halloween
dont forget the msi windmill! that one was pretty funny too
yeah and it gets really hot too, about the same as x38/x48 :o
and yes, its only qpi and pciE, really weird it gets that hot huh?
i dont think its pciE that creates that much heat... i suspect its actually the qpi interface that runs so hot.
what do you mean?
thanks
huh? what do you mean?
not every xfire board can run sli (well it COULD if nvidia wouldnt block it)
i hope that answers your question
why are you people so crazy to see pics of bloodrage?
itll be released later and the layout might still change...
just use your imagination, BloodRage uses red slots, has an optimized layout for overclocking, more voltage options and higher voltages, beefier pwms for cpu mem and nb, and it will support OC Panel of course
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