The northbridge heatsink is not particularly large, nor does it stand out in any other way aside from the color and branding. The middle row of fins is very wide, like a series of fat razor blades. Gigabyte would have done well to chop this row up into multiple fins, and remove the nameplate altogether for the sake of better cooling performance. The design of the southbridge heatsink is much more practical with many narrow fins for increased surface area and airflow.
Clearance around the CPU socket is good, and should accomodate most third party heatsinks. However, some Scythe Ninja Rev. B owners have reported that the metal rentention mechanism needs to be filed down to clear the capacitors around the CPU.
Those using the Sunbeam Tuniq Tower have discovered they need to insulate the underside of the PCB where the metal backplate makes contact with the board, to prevent a short. This may apply to other coolers as well. We are also happy to report the Thermalright Ultra Extreme fits in the proper east-west orientation, though the heatpipes come within millimeters of touching the northbridge heatsink.
Sparse, but acceptable. The SATA data cables were a pleasant surprise as they were of the locking variety, reducing the chance of accidental disloding. SATA connectors are notoriously flimsy, so this is a welcome addition.
T he PC Health Status menu was somewhat of a surprise. Only the two 4-pin headers were controllable; the 3-pin headers ran at full speed. Normally Speedfan would be a no-brainer here, but strangely, it does not report RPMs accurately, unless our CPU fan really was running in the 6-digits.
Hopefully this will be fixed in a future version. T he MB Intelligent Tweaker menu is where most of the action happens. Many of these settings are actually not visible by default including all the memory timings.
We presume Gigabyte does this to prevent novice users from accidentally changing an advanced setting that could result in a dead motherboard. The range of frequency selection is wide. Gigabyte also offers wide open voltage control. Astoundingly, CPU voltage ranges from 0. A lot of these settings will probably never be used nor should they , but just the fact they exist is encouraging. Extra voltage and cooling did not help raise this frequency any higher.
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