Recent content by shtef

If they really removed that duct (which is good thing) then I suppose that price should go little bit down? Rigth?

Yes, Gigabyte is passively cooled, also heatsink on this board is much smaller than one on the Chaintech. I agree that it is POSSIBLE to cool NF4 passively. Many people used Zalman heatsinks for this, but fact is that chips got VERY hot while passively cooled. If you have very good airflow in...

I'm not sure that it is very safe. It is known that NF4 SLI or Ultras get very hot during operation. Also a review guy at xbit-labs fried Chaintech NF4 Ultra Zenith board that was passively cooled while overclocking. Also some preproduction board from Asus (A8N-E Premium) that was passively...

Here's hi-res picture of the A8N-SLI Premium: http://www.pcpop.com/pcpopimg/05/3/1-11-12-10-325083665.jpg I wonder what are those three chip-like things neer the heatsink. It must be that new tecnology for seemless switching between SLI-nonSLI operation.

Hi all! I've been following this forum for a while and as well some others related to Asus NF4 Ultra-SLI boards. Now I'm almost positive that AN8-E Premium preproduction board that was passively cooled will never emerge in retail. Seems that NF4 Ultras can't be successfully cooled with a...