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Trinity hits the egg

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ExarKun333 said:
Power consumption is really the only 'black eye' for me.
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How bad is Trinity's power-consumption?

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AMD's TDPs are noticeably higher (100W for the higher end K-series parts compared to 55W for the Core i3s). Intel will easily maintain the power advantage as a result under both CPU and GPU load, although AMD's GPU does deliver more performance per watt. Power consumption is a major concern of AMD's at this point. Without a new process node to move to for a while, AMD is hoping to rely on some design tricks to improve things in the future.
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100W TDP. Ouch! Not really mITX material, IMHO.
 
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^The 5700 is 65w and offers 95% of the performance of the 5800. You just lose out on ease of overclock.
 
VirtualLarry said:
Mmm, 8 SATA6G ports, and onboard video, with two PCI-E x16 slots and two PCI slots free. Would make a nice server board.

Wonder if there are drivers for WHS v1 for that board.
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Add the 6 phases VRMs, 7 segment display for troubleshoot, and the separate power phase and ground plane for audio. Oh, and I think the layout is great :drool:

Why none of the reviews used any of the Biostar Hi-Fi boards is beyond me, as I think that they got the most attractive FM2 boards right now.
 
alexruiz said:
Add the 6 phases VRMs, 7 segment display for troubleshoot, and the separate power phase and ground plane for audio. Oh, and I think the layout is great :drool:

Why none of the reviews used any of the Biostar Hi-Fi boards is beyond me, as I think that they got the most attractive FM2 boards right now.
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I was looking at that board also, funny thing is I thought I wouldn't be interested in trinity at all, but they look interesting enough to check one out for a work machine.

Thinking of using one of the micro's though, not sure which one yet.
 
I'm interested in whatever board will allow for proper DDR 2400 speeds. Has anyone had any luck with a motherboard besides the "Asus F2A85-V Pro" that xbit used in their review to reach 2400mhz on the RAM? Also, what RAM to pick? How do you think that low voltage 30nm Samsung RAM will perform?

"http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147096"

I'm wanting to focus on undervolting / underclocking the CPU a little but overvolting and overclocking the GPU / memory as I believe this will bring the biggest gains for a gaming focused HTPC.
 
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