And here's another board with passive cooling:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem&item=6740208244&fromMakeTrack=true
Looks like all the newer GA-K8NF-9s have passive cooling.
OK... it looks like I might owe Gigabyte an appology:
My motherboard is installed and working with a PCI-Express graphics card. It looks like my problem was a bust Asus graphics card, not a bust mobo.
Jack.
Thanks loads for your reply, z3r0x2...
...I've got XP installed too... and I left it burning in over night and it's been rock solid (still using the PCI graphics card). I'm about to install the PCI-E graphics card and see what happens!
Thanks a lot,
Jack
WTF?!?!...
...So, I was installing XP again (with my PCI graphics card installed on my potentially dodgy GA-K8NF-9 mobo)... all was going well... the disk got formatted, files were copied... then, just when Setup was about to launch Windows the screen flickered and it went back to the...
OK - I've plugged a PCI graphics card into my potentially duff mobo. It works so far... I'll leave it running and see if the mobo fries this graphics card as well! If it does that I know for sure that either my mobo or the PSU are screwed.
Jack
Hi z3r0x2,
Yeah, your passive cooler looks exactly like mine. I'll be very interested to hear how well your board performs. I wonder: please could you post your serial number? I still haven't heard back from Gigabyte about my serial number and it would be cool if we could figure figure out...
WAIT! Have a look at this thread before going for this board... it's been a nightmare for me...
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17363715
Urg... I still haven't heard back from Gigabyte about the serial numbers. Does anyone have a phone number or email address for Gigabyte? Or, even better, does anyone have a list of the "grey import" serial numbers from Gigabyte? I've tried contacting them using their web form but I haven't heard...
Hey!
I have a GA-K8NF-9 and it doesn't have a fan on the nforce chip. In fact, this is my 2nd GA-K8NF-9 in as many days. The first was totally dead on arival (but had a fan on the nforce chip). My new board doesn't have a fan on the nforce chip and it gets DAMN hot (too hot to touch)...
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