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jAkUp
03-07-05, 07:02 PM
Interesting discovery I made today. The MSI, DFI, Gigabyte will not work with dual video cards and VGA silencers, the PCIe connectors are too close. It appears that the A8N-SLI is the only motherboard with the connectors spaced out more. Oh well, I guess I will just have to do with the stock heatsinks...
bkswaney
03-08-05, 02:02 AM
I wondered about this from seeing pictures
of these boards.
Now we know 4 sure. :)
Viral
03-09-05, 02:25 AM
Yep I noticed this when searching for the answer.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=50966&page=1

You can install the Zalmans, but I wanted the heat to be exhausted.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/OS-Wiz/vidcard_0006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/OS-Wiz/102_0206.jpg

And this guy has the case, mobo, and heat sink that I want :)

http://premium1.uploadit.org/ManojM//VF700c.JPG

Unfortunately this shows that with an XP-120 you don't even have the 4x slot free :( No PPU for me....

EDIT: Hmm looks like this shot might prove otherwise:
http://premium1.uploadit.org/ManojM//VF700b.JPG

Would be a tight fit but.. not sure if I like that at all.

Blah, why did such a sucky overclocking board have to have the best layout!?
jAkUp
03-09-05, 02:38 AM
I dunno :( I think the PPU will fit, but it will be really close
tret
03-09-05, 01:33 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/OS-Wiz/vidcard_0006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/OS-Wiz/102_0206.jpg


Looks kinda familiar :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/tretneo/FX-55/DSC01009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/tretneo/FX-55/DSC01015.jpg

My Rig makes me happy aside from the mobo causing me memory stability issues.

tret
Mr_LoL
03-10-05, 04:53 PM
Interesting discovery I made today. The MSI, DFI, Gigabyte will not work with dual video cards and VGA silencers, the PCIe connectors are too close. It appears that the A8N-SLI is the only motherboard with the connectors spaced out more. Oh well, I guess I will just have to do with the stock heatsinks...
What is the long term benefit of those silencers? Can you overclock more? When i get my ultra, I am keeping the standard heatsink cuz i like the look
surfnet
03-10-05, 11:14 PM
Im not an overclocker but for me the main reason is how quiet the NV5 is comparedd to the standared heat sink.
jAkUp
03-11-05, 03:03 AM
Here are the main advantages:

Quiter
Lower Temps
Vents hot air out of case (cooler case temps)