GIGABYTE E350N-USB3, who is your daddy

[dinos22]

Hey guys

I had a play with this new board today. Wanted to see if it overclocks lol. It sure does but it will get toasty particularly because you have to really jack up voltage hard to scale with Mhz, at least on this chip heheheh











Idle and load (video encoding 5x 1080p 60fps videos into low res MP4)

not sure if this info will be interesting to anyone but this platform at stock did this encode time in about 12 minutes while stock 655K i5 does it in 4.5 minutes and sandy bridge at 1.3minutes heh not that many would use it for such purpose. I am going to make this sucker into my new internet machine how good is it.......love it. Just have to find a newcase, something small

[steponz]

I want one....

[dinos22]

i died a little watching 33minutes of 32M SuperPi

[Daveburt714]

HOT? Put some water on it.

You Aussies get all the cool gear first (kidding)...
Very nice power numbers. Looks like it would make a great Server/HTPC/Surfing box!

A couple questions if ya don't mind.
Why 2 sticks of ram, it doesn't support dual channel does it?
The other big one is, does the bios actually support overclocking or did you have to do it through the OS...

Thanks for the info dinos22.
Last thing I need is another machine, but I REALLY want one of these...

I'm leaning more toward the passive Asus though.

[Hondacity]

heatsink should be horizontal so air can go thru the fins...

i want one with bigger heatsink

[dinos22]

lol i honestly didnt look at the spec yet just thought 8GB ram looks cool in it

that was all done in bios yeah

that little fan is not loud at all, in fact i couldnt hear it over my normal machine but i would rip it out and fit a bigger slow moving fan anyways in there as once dust starts crippling those little s they get whiney

[chew*]

Can't wait till i get mine,

Something new to torture........take that heatsink off and throw some ln2 on that chip dino. I want to see sub 10 minutes 1m

[imamage]

Dang , now I can't wait to get my hands on one (already planned to get one)
Now Gigabyte board can clock it up , surely I will get Gigabyte E-350 instead of ASUS

[NEOAethyr]

Seems like it's slower then a socket 754.
Maybe it's the mem timings.

Nice board, has dual bios on an mitx .
And it has overclocking support in the bios, nice .

The only thing I don't like about it, is that it needs a slandered atx psu.
I'de prefer the 12/16/24v dv jack on the back of the board for a smaller casing.

Edit:
I prefer to have 16x pcie of course.
But I'de also like to see a mini pcie slot as well beside it for wireless cards.
Still a nice little board though.

[steponz]

I think I died when you posted this... lol

[FlanK3r]

Nice Dinos! U beating my old Athlon 3000+ :-D. How about Cinebenchs and wprime? And 3Dmarks 03/05/06. Give pls some time this little baby . Nice busspeed OC, more than 100%! (for others, bussped Bobcat is 100 MHz)

PS:I will testing later E350M

[ChanceCoats123]

So stock bus is at 100, what is the stock speed on these chips? (Cpu-z was less than informative).

[FlanK3r]

1600 MHz, maybe with better cooler he can go at 1.45V and higher OC.

[richierich]

friggin awesome preview, thanks!!!

[alpha0ne]

Damn baby torturer dinos

I cant make up my mind whether to buy one of these when available or wait for llano, I really need to change my 24/7 rig which adds far too much to the power bill for a pauper like me

Currently using an Intel G41 mATX, E5200, HD 5670, two 120mm fans and two 3.5" 1TB drives so going Zacate and using the onboard vga would use about a third (I think ) of the power I'm currently using

[dinos22]

stock system is 1600Mhz guys but this board automatically has it running at 2000 assuming CPUz is reading it right. There is no multi change in bios just HTT and you can also OC the video card which i will get around to as well soon

i will also look into underclocking and undervolting as well but it would be better if i had a lower wattage PSU lol


talk about the power bill the electricity cost friggin skyrocketed here dude its nuts

oh btw i used a corsair HX620 PSU so probably not the most efficient PSU to use for such a lower power consumption system and those figures are probably going to get even lower with one of those 150W pico things

[tool_462]

Knowing that these can be OCed....I want one even more!

For sure building a custom cooler/mount for mine when it comes.

[FlanK3r]

OC is not about low wattage power :-D. Hope, we will see next benchmarks . Its at hwbot? 2 new points for you .

[dinos22]

Knowing that these can be OCed....I want one even more!

For sure building a custom cooler/mount for mine when it comes.

wow i love custom work, looking forward to it, make sure you shoot over a link so we can check itout

[RaV666]

And tomshardware was saying zacate is not overclockable..

Great preview!

[FlanK3r]

Its about BIOS/board, not about chip

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

Since you're the first guy I've seen with one, I have to ask a stupid question.

How was the performance at stock vs OC'd? Just doing stuff in windows I mean. My atom nettop is ungodly slow at times and I'd consider this, but obviously change out the heatsink!

I'm thinking this on top of a Lian Li Spider in red? Sexy, yes?

[Manicdan]

why does one cpuz say 1.36v and the other 1.65v?

[FlanK3r]

think, its only some bug...I had on my i7 980x in win7+RAmpage III Extreme about 11V :-D (in CPU-Z of course)

[Manicdan]

my cpu is 3.3v according to OCCT, lol