Gigabyte P35 Mobo pic

[K404]

those are DDR2 slots. Scary level of chipset cooling

Also... scary level of surface IC and SMC action. Maybe still an ES?

 

[stocky]

Looks good! I really like the copper heatsinks - but only if they are 100% real copper without aluminium bases which ASUS and ABIT con us with!

 

[K404]

I doubt its real copper. Instead of colouring the aluminium to look like copper, they could innovate and give us funky heatsink colours.

2nd thought...ditch the friggin heatpipes and instead of moving heat around the board, add a fan and move it away from the board!

These companies, unbelievably employ thermodynamics engineers....but I bet they`re just kept in cages and prodded with sticks for senior managements personal amusement.

 

[Master_G]

2nd thought...ditch the friggin heatpipes and instead of moving heat around the board, add a fan and move it away from the board!

Totally agree, these oversized coolers always suffer from poor quality (both in using aluminium and not very efficient heatpipes) and usually have poor contact anyway, resulting in everything ending up roasting hot after any sort of load.

Then if you are overclocking you are going to need to have a fan blowing over it, so why not put a fan on from the start and make the solution quiet, rather than insisting on heatpipes just so they can say it is all passive and so silent.

G

 

[maverik-sg1]

Totally agree, these oversized coolers always suffer from poor quality (both in using aluminium and not very efficient heatpipes) and usually have poor contact anyway, resulting in everything ending up roasting hot after any sort of load.

Then if you are overclocking you are going to need to have a fan blowing over it, so why not put a fan on from the start and make the solution quiet, rather than insisting on heatpipes just so they can say it is all passive and so silent.

G

I agree with all of this and the rest of the above.

The principal of operation has to be applauded, however the execution is terrible and definitely cost driven. I would hate to be the owner of a BTX case and try and have faith in motherbaoard cooling solution that relies so heavily on heatpipe cooling.

It presents us (the users) with lots of issues - we cant use a dedicated chipset cooler without finding alternative cooling methods for every other component covered by the current solution.

So I appeal the the board manufacturers to invest in better soltuions and I appeal to the chipset manufacturers to make their products more efficent in terms of energy used and heat output.

The use of better quality digital PWM controllers would certainly aid this process.

 

[K404]

D-PWM is 1st gen for this application so I guess we shouldnt be expecting it to be perfect. Asus have already shown that heatpipes on the (analogue) VRMs are not needed....they have heatpiped and non-heatpiped versions of the P5B so the cooling is only needed for the NB and SB.