> Really? I've got an A7V266E and haven't noticed anything hot.. and > anyway, I've never heard of a motherboard making a system hot in the > first place.
I have no prove of this, it is just something I heard. But I do have to say mainboard temp gets high, but I am not sure if this is the processors fault. > The A7V266E *does* happen to have a motherboard fan on it, but from what > I hear it is just for show and overclockers. There are many other > boards with the exact same chipset which don't come with a fan, so go > figure. Asus always made their boards to be as stable as possible under > overclocking conditions, so I guess that meant adding a cheap fan in > this case. > [...] > Did you try removing the fan on the motherboard chipset? It's a > worthless, cheap fan, which has been known to be loud. Yes, this is a particular noisy fan, with a very annoying high frequency component. Are you suggesting that I can turn it of safely if I am not doing overclocking? Currently, I am actually doing underclocking (running an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ at 1100) > So I think that your regrets about the Asus motherboard and AMD athlon > are likely to have been misplaced. In my experience, these choices have > nothing to do with noise. It has much more to do with the particular > fans you get. What fans do you use? Or isn't the noise a problem for you? Maarten
