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zoson · 03-11-2003, 02:41 AM

Now that the new abit is out, it is the best board out. There are only a few reviews of the rev 1.2 but you can find them. It outperforms the a7n8x in every discipline except one or two, and it offers excellent features (minus the second ethernet jack).
Mine arrives tomorrow.
I did notice something curious here. Is it really necessary to watercool the nForce2? I find that watercooling my KT333 is innefective because it actually makes my northbridge run hotter than if it had a regular fan on it. How hot is the nforce2????
-Zoson

03-11-2003, 02:41 AM	#22
zoson Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: X Posts: 204	Now that the new abit is out, it is the best board out. There are only a few reviews of the rev 1.2 but you can find them. It outperforms the a7n8x in every discipline except one or two, and it offers excellent features (minus the second ethernet jack). Mine arrives tomorrow. I did notice something curious here. Is it really necessary to watercool the nForce2? I find that watercooling my KT333 is innefective because it actually makes my northbridge run hotter than if it had a regular fan on it. How hot is the nforce2???? -Zoson __________________ Core i7 930 @ 4254Hz 22x193 \| ASUS R3E 901 BIOS \| 12GB Mushkin Blackline 3x4GB @ 1547MHz 7-8-7-24-1N \| Lian Li PC-A10B 2x EVGA GTX275 SLI @ 720/1266/1566 \| 2x 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD Raid 0 \| 3x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint 7.2K Raid 5 \| Corsair 950TX H2O \| Enzotech Sapphire Rev.A \| EK-FB RE3 \| Swiftech - 2x MCW60/GTX275 Unisink, MCP655b, MCRes Micro.v2 \| 3x HWLabs SR1-120 あなたの神への弓 Time isn't wasted, when you're gettin' wasted.