Is a full moon out where you all live, because I swear, ya'll are acting crazy!

We have preliminary results from DodgeViper, and from Nikhsub1. They point to better performance.

Now let's see more test results, and a full review, then we can judge the performance, OK?

In any case, what ya'll are likely to see is a comparison of the revised TC-4 with a Maze 3.

I would be far more concerned with how Dtek came to conclude that turbulators would have a significant impact. Personally, I'd still like to give my idea a shot, and I do predict yet even better results, but I don't have the time, nor the inclination (oh great, now I'm grumpy. It must be contagious!)

fair enough... I was just trying to be funny :cry:

Do you think an entire forum can experience that time of the month simultaneously? I've heard this sort of thing happening with ladies who live together for a while - they will start cyling together...:evilaugh:

Bob

Oh man, don't get me started about "that cycle"... I barely survived last week!

I ended up settling on the Asus A7V333 as the mobo to read on-die temps.

I tried out a few of the 8K3A+'s, and the reported on-die temperature swung by vast margins constantly for every CPU on both of the 8K3A+ boards.

I have no idea how anyone with an 8K3A+ motherboard could ever hope to give themselves a fair indication of just what their actual on-die temperature is telling them.

As far as I'm concerned, the 8K3A+ on-die measurement facility is worse than using an in-socket thermistor.

I guess I should have expected as much coming from Epox...

so the A7V333 has full function on-die temp

Yes, with 1.011 BIOS and onwards. When it was released and for a few months afterwards it didn't support it, but that was only a BIOS issue.

I hate this A7V333 though as an overclocker's board. I really bought it just so I could develop my block but it's not something I'd willingly buy again.

No sir, back to Abit for me real soon now with a shiny AT7-MAX2 that supports the on-die diode. Pity it wasn't available 2 months ago. I'd have bought that instead.

I get cnsistent readings with my 8K3a. Maybe it was an early bios issue?

You had to have had a bad mobo. There was problems with the first boards, REV 1.0 and REV 1.1. Many boards were returned for many reasons. Personally I have yet and doubt I will see the claim you have mentioned above. This is the first post I have read that someone had a problem with temp reporting from the 8K3A+ mobo.