Nuitari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:08:03 -0400:
> 1. > The one thing that was clearly lacking from Tyan and ThermalTake was > that there are actually 2 different Heatsink sizes on the market for > Socket F systems. Some heatsinks at 3.5" and others at 4.1". > > ThermalTake's Socket F heatsinks use 4.1", while the Tyan board uses > 3.5". > > In the end I got 2 Socket 940 heatsinks using the special brackets from > Tyan. Wow. Last time I bought a mobo, I bought Tyan from Monarch, referred from pricewatch.com. Pricing mobos, CPUs, and heat-sinks/fans separately at the lowest cost on pricewatch, Monarch was charging like $25 to ship it all assembled and tested. In addition, that meant I ordered it all together (I did order memory separately, from someone else) instead of having to worry about ordering and getting separate packages from several different places. So I did it that way. They shipped it already assembled, so until very recently, when I took one of the heatsinks off to check that I could do so and reuse them when I order my dual Opteron 290s, I'd never even had the heat-sinks off the CPUs. I guess that's one way to ensure you get the right one! =8^) I was quite pleased with Monarch service as well as price (tho their prices on memory were only average, thus my buying that elsewhere), and will likely order from them again next time I upgrade. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
