[philhoole]

Looking forward to seeing the results with the new BIOS as I've been looking at this board myself for a little while.

I read elsewhere that Cinebench scores massively improve with the BIOS update so Maxwell should be the same.

[Brett Morgan]

usb stick and ezflash worked fine, the mobo manual is handy SF is enabled and the benchwell scene ony renders about a couple of minutes faster, installed PC probe and cpu 1 is hitting 60 deg is this safe? Can anyone recommend a good cpu fan(s)?
I was looking at zalman's website...


Cheers

Brett

[Bubbaloo]

I recommend Swiftech for the heat sinks.

[-Adrian]

With 60°C during load, you should be fine (if you aren't overclocking).

There are many good heatsinks on the market, i can fully recommend Zalman and Scythe from personal experience, but check out some up to date reviews/rankings on the web.

[numerobis]

i would use coretemp to read the temps out... don't know how what temps pd rpobe is reading... but i don't know if coretemp works with this board.

is this 60°c with boxed heatsinks? if yes, i think you can lower your temps ~10°c or more.
the problem is that there is not much space on this board for big heatsinks. so i don't think a zalman would fit.
here are some pics with Thermalright HR-01 X on z7s. some fins of the hs on the right side had to be cut to fit beside the nb cooler.

[Brett Morgan]

Thanks numerobis, yeah the silly buggers who bought it put it in a pretty small case, the sata connetors areent even reachable, they have a 90 deg cable connection, so if you grab this board get a pretty big case so its easy to work on add/remove hardware, thanks for the info guys.

Brett

[naikku]

Hi

I´m about to buy
Intel Q9300
Asus p5k
2gb of ram for now, extra 2gb later
some geforce

they will cost about 470€

[glebe digital]

Those are some heatsinks numerobis.

Finally finished my 'octo' last week, based on a Skulltrail D5400XS, a pair of E5420s & 8GB fb dimms........
had to replace stock coolers with Zalmans & I'm reasonably impressed.........bit noisy though.

I originally got a Supermicro X7DBN board [and the recommended Supermicro RAM]
but for some inexplicable reason I just got a bunch of memory errors before it even got to BIOS
......just wouldn't fly at all.