Octopuss

exact opposite here

Would be interesting if you tried without the CPU fan - if it's possible at all with your CPU.

The FANs are terrible. On the lowest settings they do nothing and anything above, it's like an airplane taking off I also managed to remove those bloody blue plates covering NB and the mosfets. It didn't help anything though. BUT in idle, the heatsink is quite warm, not hot. When I run Prime95 though, I could fry an egg. Anyway, my ultimate goal is to have the PC running stably at 500 FSB. Something tells me I should solve the temperature thing first, though

Well from what I read the sensor is somewhere around southbridge, so it doesn't say anything about NB and/or mosfets. Unfortunately.

I assume the contact with the chip is pretty good, considering the extreme temperature If I wasn't afraid about losing warranty, I'd grab one of those old CPU coolers I have in a bag somewhere and slap it on with some special thermal glue. But I am sane, still. What sucks is I can't seem to remove the **** blue plates on the heatsinks. They definitely don't help the air getting inside.

I set the temperatures in BIOS manually as suggested elsewhere, and it didn't help. I even went to default clocks and set everything to normal, that means default values. Still hot as hell! Like, wth! The mosfets aren't that much of a problem, they are supposed to be hot, plus they are right next to the Noctua blowing out, but I am worried about northbridge. that's MCH, right? I might add another Noctua to the front of the case and experiment with some intake airflow, but since it wouldn't be in line, I doubt it'd help.

A little above?! I almost burned my finger briefly touching the heatsinks on the northbridge and mosfets! Ouch! This is how it looks like (**** crappy limits on uploads, had to kill the quality): (oh and the stuff on the CPU cooler is milk I once managed to spill on my pc, lol)

Someone told me that this board tends to set voltages ridiculously high on auto settings, so it might be that. How do I figure the numbers though? There are like million different settings. CPU is still cool btw. It's the **** board itself.

I am not sure if there is a sensor checking general temperature on the board, but this is what the whole thing looks like in idle state (praise remote access to home PC ):

Well, I don't know! But the inside of the case is definitely not hot at all. The air flowing out of the case from both the Noctua and PSU is barely noticeable to be warm. If at all. It's just the **** heatsinks! I will try to remove the stupid covers. Anyway, the system seems stable so far - but I haven't gone through any testing yet. Will see what will overnight session of Prime95 result in. I also hope to get stable 500FSB this time (previous P35 would give me BSOD above 485 here and there). Gonna post a pic or two just for the hell of it (plus I gotta show off with the case ) And thinking of it I have huge bag of old CPU/VGA/whatever coolers, so I might go creative and make something better than the stock sinks.

Ah. I grabbed the UD3P. I've got pretty decent case with plenty of room for airflow - Antec P182 with 120mm Noctua as outtake FAN. CPU is passively cooled and the massive Thermaltake barely gets warm even when the CPU is overclocked.

Bought the board yesterday It has the space I need indeed, but it was CLOSE. Luckily the Intel NIC is small enough not to cover the FAN on the Accelero on VGA. I originally thought it would not fit, though. There is like 1mm space between the two. The board is great, the heatsinks on it are a bit too hot.. Gotta figure out what's goign on - I haven't increased a single voltage. What I find weird is that on relatively high-end board in 21st century there still is COM and LPT connectors. What the hell for? Who would connect some prehistorical devices to computer built on such board? Oh well.

The trick is that one PCI-e 1.1 lane is 250MB/s and 2.0 is 500MB/s! Yes, the Intel card is PCI-e. I am not touching PCI anymore in 21st century I just don't trust onboard devices in general. The sound sucks and the network was giving me some weird BSODs - at least I assume it was the cause, because I have no problems since I upgraded to the Intel card.

I believe I wouldn't because the other PCI-e slot on EP45 is x8. Keep in mind that the EP35 only has PCIE-e 1.1, while EP45 has 2.0 Soundcard, well, I hate the Realtek onboard junk. It gives me sound problems and I also bought decent speakers lately, so planning to get me Auzentech X-fi Forte. Double NIC, yea... Realtek again. No thank you! I have Intel card and it's perfect I wish there was a board with nothing extra. No sound, no network, no firewire, etc.

I currently have GigaByte EP35-DS4 board. It's great, BUT: There is ATI 4870 with massive custom made cooling (the base of default cooler + Accelero S1 with a fan attached), which takes a little bit over two slots (I think). I also need to use two additional cards - LAN and sound. The trouble is that the layout of the board is not very good and it's impossible to plug them all in. I also can't use the lower PCI-e slot for the VGA because it only is x4 type. So I started to look for a new board. The P45-based ones caught my attention. I was further recommended EP45-UD3P which looks good, but I want to be double sure Is there anything else you would grab instead? If so, why? I must say I am not interested in DDR3 and the i7 platform. Thanks.

O'rly? I wasn't aware this was official Microsoft forum.

What support? I didn't contact Microsoft. I am trying to integrate it using vLite. What are you talking about?

Has anyone managed to integrate a language pack for build 7229 in vLite? It gives me an error message about missing files. What else do I need except for the .cab? I thought it's enough!

everything is running... it checks but doesn't find any, which I find suspicious

Apparently only RC version is able to download updates. I've got build 7201 and apparently it is disabled. Is there any way to force Windows to offer updates?

Speaking of builtin firewall, is it still the same old crap or has it evolved into useful thing just as the whole system? I am using Comodo btw, and it works great under W7 too.

cat5(e) shouldn't have a problem handling gbit though but more quality never hurts

If cascaded menu would be possible to create, I would be happy. Sadly, it is not I also strongly dislike submenus in All programs opening below instead of on right.

Well I hope he wasn't banned for just having different opinion

It's instant for me! UAC, that has a fix too, jsut not sure what setting it is. What I pray for is Nuhi showing up with ANY tweaking utility for W7 Preconfigured system is a win. I don't like to dig in the bloody control panel for too long. It's exciting when discovering the mystery of a new system, but on next installation it becomes annoying