Heatpipes Eff Tee Double-U.

Ξ December 2nd, 2005 | → | ∇ |

ABIT AN8 SLI
I always seem to have a love of ABIT boards, ever since I owned the BD7II-RAID. Currently I run an ABIT AW8-MAX, which has also silent heatpipe goodness and it’s yet another great ABIT board that runs sweet as a nut. That’s the problem with buying hardware, you can read all the reviews you want and still have problems somewhere with something (especially if it’s concerning DDR2). So most people buy into what they know, rather than risk new brands or ones that have previously shown problems. This is why companies like ECS find it hard to break into the enthusiast market.

On the topic of heatpipes - why didn’t Microsoft use something like Shuttle’s ICE tech in making a heatpiped CPU and GPU cooler? Surely drawing the heat through metal pipes towards and directly out the back of the 360 would have worked better than a plastic duct? I’d also like to know if the 360 motherboard holes are the same or similar to something like an LGA socket, which would make watercooling a whole lot easier (and a whole lot quieter and more expensive too).

On the topic of consolse - Gamecube games are always so expensive! Even budget games cost £18. Super Smash Football is nearly £40! However I did manage to get Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 from lik-sang which should be arriving in the next few weeks! WOOHOO! Forget DoA 4.. pff.
Zelda: Twilight Princess is also taking forever, but that will undoubtably be worth paying the full whack for.

On the topic of fighting games - Why is it none of them ever contain everything you want, how you like it. They all do things differently but none of them are both elegently simple and yet, still complicated enough to continually entertain you.