Gigabyte goes cooling crazy with 'Extreme' P45 motherboard

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" Although we can say that we've already glazed upon a few P45-powered motherboards built by Gigabyte, it seems we ain't seen nothing yet. Although the upcoming P45 chipset from Intel is a mid-range part, Gigabyte has went all the way to make it enthusiast-worthy with the EP45 Extreme board which can be viewed below.

Starting off shy with features like support for 45nm 1333 MHz FSB processors and DDR2-1200 memory and CrossFire through one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 and two x4 slots, Gigabyte motherboard goes over the top when it comes to cooling. We like shiny copper as much as the next person but with the EP45 Extreme Gigabyte probably went over the top as, in addition to the PWM, northbridge and southbridge heatsinks and the heatpipes between them it has added a fin array just above the PCI slots. The whole contraption can be taken off though, and that will enable the connection of a water-cooling system to the northbridge heatsink.

Expected to be available in limited numbers, the EP45 Extreme is set to come bundled with a LN2 duct for the CPU and a new version of the EasyTune application. No word on the release date of this miniature copper mine but June seems like a safe bet. "



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http://www.tcmagazine.info/comments.php?shownews=19381&catid=2


That funny looking Graphics Card has no Monitor outputs on it :confused:








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Honestly I really don't understand the point of manufacturers fitting all these fancy cooling solutions on their boards when in reality they're so ineffective! All those pipes look nice but don't help much without a fan. The best way is just to ship it unassembled together with some AS5 and we will do all the fitting ourselves. This's what I always have done with my Asus boards.
 
Fan is not needed due to size and Airflow that should already be in your case.

Back in 2001 Mobos had Active Cooling on NB etc , but its not really needed now (for years, example NF2) and these smaller fans are loud and die sooner than most.
 
It's partly a marketing thing though; all that copper/aluminum grabs consumers attention and gives it the bling bling appearance.

If you knew nothing about detailed specs and saw that heatpipe arragement, you'd probably automatically assume it's an amazing board.
 
helmutcheese said:
Fan is not needed due to size and Airflow that should already be in your case.

Back in 2001 Mobos had Active Cooling on NB etc , but its not really needed now (for years, example NF2) and these smaller fans are loud and die sooner than most.
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Yes, they're not needed when you are not OCing but when you are running anything higher than 350FSB, they are, no matter how good your flow is with a closed case. It also depends on what is acceptable or not and I prefer to keep my NB under 40 when my FSB is above 400! My Akasa fans are still operating whisperly quiet as normal after 2 years and they cost about 10 quid.
 
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toucam said:
Yes, they're not needed when you are not OCing but when you are running anything higher than 350FSB, they are, no matter how good your flow is with a closed case. It also depends on what is acceptable or not and I prefer to keep my NB under 40 when my FSB is above 400! My Akasa fans are still operating whisperly quiet as normal after 2 years and they cost about 10 quid.
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Thats not true, my old NF2 ran a 500+mhz DDR FSB with passive cooling (uprated to Zalman for NB and stuck low profile sink on SB and Chipsets like CPU's ran with more voltage and heat back then.

The NF2/3/4/5/6/7's all come in passive flavours, the later can hit well over 625mhz FSB (2500mhz Quad Pumped).

The days of small loud prone to failing fans should be behind us and who says 40C is hot ?, it well bellow upper limit of any Chipset out now, the NF780 Alarm is set to 70-80c AFAIR.

My cooling is near silent, it only gets loud when I make it loud to game or such, at all other times there is no need for it to surf the web so it clocks down aand fans slow down.
 
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helmutcheese said:
Thats not true, my old NF2 ran a 500+mhz DDR FSB with passive cooling (uprated to Zalman for NB and stuck low profile sink on SB and Chipsets like CPU's ran with more voltage and heat back then.

The NF2/3/4/5/6/7's all come in passive flavours, the later can hit well over 625mhz FSB (2500mhz Quad Pumped).

The days of small loud prone to failing fans should be behind us and who says 40C is hot ?, it well bellow upper limit of any Chipset out now, the NF780 Alarm is set to 70-80c AFAIR.

My cooling is near silent, it only gets loud when I make it loud to game or such, at all other times there is no need for it to surf the web so it clocks down aand fans slow down.
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I don't know about your setup(s) but it seems everyone running an Asus Maximus Formula/SE/Rampage have issues with NB being too hot without at least reapplying thermal paste, with temp reaching 55-68 is a norm. If there's a poll on Xtremesystem of who has reapplied thermal paste and added a fan on their NB or completely changed the boards' heatsink then I wouldn't be surprised if all of them said "yes".
As I said, temp is subjective and to some or yourself 40 is not but for me it is.
 
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toucam said:
I don't know about your setup(s) but it seems everyone running an Asus Maximus Formula/SE/Rampage have issues with NB being too hot without at least reapplying thermal paste, with temp reaching 55-68 is a norm. If there's a poll on Xtremesystem of who has reapplied thermal paste and added a fan on their NB or completely changed the boards' heatsink then I wouldn't be surprised if all of them said "yes".
As I said, temp is subjective and to some or yourself 40 is not but for me it is.
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I do not have any of above Chipsets and 40C is not hot no matter what you say or think.
 
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