TuniqTower with GA-X48T-DQ6

[thegoonden]

My young lady friend is ordering me a Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 to replace the SIIE I killed.

Just looking at as many review and so on, and saw with some horror, the enormous heatsink behind the CPU on the underside of the board.

How will this work with the TT120's backplate?

Slightly baffled.

 

[rbury2]

You can remove the Heatsink from the GA-X48T-DQ6 there are instructions in the manual, I have the GA-X48-DQ6 and it comes off easy, What CPU and memory you going to be using? I was tempted to go for the DDR3 board but some reviews said the X48 wasnt playing nice with the DDR3 memory


Rob...

 

[thegoonden]

System will be as in sig, the Gigabyte replacing the striker.
I noticed it could be removed, but wasn't sure if it would flog my warrantee. I suppose if it's in the manual it must be OK.
I take it with the TT sucking loads of heat out the top of the chip the bottom sink isn't so important?

I've read some thing that say it's not fabulous for overclocking DDR3, and that it likes to ignore cas 7, but the strikerII did that as well, I set it to 7, it reset it to 8.
Not seen anything reporting outright DDR3 problems though. Unless it's this chipset that chokes on OCZ stuff.