KT400 and MSI KT4 Ultra

SonixOS · 09-02-2002, 10:50 PM

I was browsing around the web when i came across a review for the KT4 ultra. Turned out that the KT400 does not support DDR400. LOL. And the MSI KT4 doesnt even have mounting holes. What r we gonna do? No watercooling? We could prolly use the side clips but they suck ass.

g.l.amour · 09-04-2002, 02:55 AM

well, i remember sending some emails to amd to ask them why they removed the 4 hole specification from their motherboard recommended design, because i was quite pissed about that. they were giving me some shit that with the newer cpu design the thermal load would lower, and as such bigass coolers were no longer going to be necessary. they also mentioned that they simply removed it from the reference design, and that it was entirely upto the mobo manufacturors to include the holes in the design, or not. so it appears msi won't use em anymore, that makes it quite simple, the ones that need the holes will not be able to buy msi anymore. i guess that there will still be manufacturors aiming at enthusiast crowd (shuttle, epox) that will use the holes. it might not be a bad idea to let other manufacturors know what we would like to see on their new boards. because consumer criticism does mean something, even if it is only from a relatively small group of ppl.

09-02-2002, 10:50 PM	#1
SonixOS Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Silver Spring, MD Posts: 282	KT400 and MSI KT4 Ultra I was browsing around the web when i came across a review for the KT4 ultra. Turned out that the KT400 does not support DDR400. LOL. And the MSI KT4 doesnt even have mounting holes. What r we gonna do? No watercooling? We could prolly use the side clips but they suck ass. __________________ -sonix- ======================= Antec SX830 Abit KR7A-133 MSI Geforce3 Ti200 VT128 TV-IN and TV-OUT Sound Blaster Audigy Linksys LNE100 V2.0 Toshiba DVD Drive 40x/16x IBM Deskstar 60GXP 60gig Watercooled http://www.sonixnet.tk =======================

09-04-2002, 02:55 AM	#2
g.l.amour Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: on da case Posts: 933	well, i remember sending some emails to amd to ask them why they removed the 4 hole specification from their motherboard recommended design, because i was quite pissed about that. they were giving me some shit that with the newer cpu design the thermal load would lower, and as such bigass coolers were no longer going to be necessary. they also mentioned that they simply removed it from the reference design, and that it was entirely upto the mobo manufacturors to include the holes in the design, or not. so it appears msi won't use em anymore, that makes it quite simple, the ones that need the holes will not be able to buy msi anymore. i guess that there will still be manufacturors aiming at enthusiast crowd (shuttle, epox) that will use the holes. it might not be a bad idea to let other manufacturors know what we would like to see on their new boards. because consumer criticism does mean something, even if it is only from a relatively small group of ppl.

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