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phanbuey · Aug 12, 2010, 05:49 PM

I love how they advertise "USING JUST A NORMAL AIRCOOLER" because the motherboard has so much to do with cooling the chip. This advertising is just ridiculous.

they also fail to mention that the PCI-e of p55 is on the CPU.. so even if you put an NF200 chip on the board, all you do is spread the lanes that still go to the 16 lanes on the CPU... You basically add PCI-e slots operating at a higher frequency, but you still only got 16 lanes no matter how you time it or dice it.

System Name:	LoLBoX
Processor:	Core i5 750 at 3.33 Ghz 21x159bclk @1.15v
Motherboard:	Gigabyte H55-ITX
Cooling:	Corsair H50
Memory:	8GB Samsung ECO 4GBx2 - 1590Mhz 8-8-8-21 1T @ 1.4v
Video Card:	EVGA GTX 570 @ 785/1570/2020
Hard Disk:	500GB WD Caviar Black 32MB
Optical Drive:	Slimline +/- DVD-RW
CRT/LCD Model:	22" Viewsonic 1080P LED
Case:	Silverstone SG08
Sound Card:	Yes
PSU:	Silverstone SG08 600W
Software:	Windows 7 64 Bit

Aug 12, 2010, 05:49 PM	#6
phanbuey Eligible for custom title Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Miami Posts: 5,010 (2.48/day) Thanks: 1,484 Thanked 959 Times in 812 Posts System Specs	I love how they advertise "USING JUST A NORMAL AIRCOOLER" because the motherboard has so much to do with cooling the chip. This advertising is just ridiculous. they also fail to mention that the PCI-e of p55 is on the CPU.. so even if you put an NF200 chip on the board, all you do is spread the lanes that still go to the 16 lanes on the CPU... You basically add PCI-e slots operating at a higher frequency, but you still only got 16 lanes no matter how you time it or dice it.