Entropy Stew wrote:

Horrible Gelatinous Blob wrote:

McMoo the Anti-Drug Cow wrote:

It IS fucking awesome isn't it? How hot is your board running? Mine seems to hover around 50 degrees. I'm not sure if the ABIT FAGtal1ty boards don't have the better cooling solution.

Mine stays a hair under 50 degrees as well. Like I said before, my CPU is running at 45 degrees idle itself. I bought a new Antec case to replace the cheap freebie I was using, with the assurances that the fan and case design would lower my temps a few degrees as well. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out because the power supply is located on the very bottom and the ATX 12V P4 4-pin (2x2) connector won't reach from the power supply to the top of the motherboard where it needs to plug in. Of course, there's nowhere in town that sells extensions or adapters. So I'll give it another try tonight by routing it under the video card and along the board, but I'm not optimistic.

Yeah, I've got a P180 as well, and the PSU cable situation is fucking annoying. With the 2 120mm fans set to medium, a front mounted Vantec Stealth, and one of these set to max, I am getting 44 cpu 45 mobo idle. This is with an overclock of 210FSB@1.45ish volts on a 4400. A Sandra burn-in run at high priority jumps the core up to 50 stable, with the mobo ending up at 46. Not a bad heat sink.

The power supply issues I have with this case are a 180 from yours: too much cord. The PC P&C 510 SLI has about 2 hentai tentacle beasts worth of cabling and likes to fuck schoolgirlsblock the bottom two slots with its...fecundity. This is really annoying with the bottom vid card being the 2nd from the bottom, and definitely bad for airflow. As much as I hate working inside it, I do have to admit it remains quiet even with all the cfm moving through there. The only annoying fan noise in there is coming from the vid cards (I think).

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