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Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net> posted |
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Pine.LNX.4.64.0706072350030.4516@××××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on |
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Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:08:03 -0400: |
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> The one thing that was clearly lacking from Tyan and ThermalTake was |
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> that there are actually 2 different Heatsink sizes on the market for |
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> Socket F systems. Some heatsinks at 3.5" and others at 4.1". |
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> ThermalTake's Socket F heatsinks use 4.1", while the Tyan board uses |
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> 3.5". |
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> In the end I got 2 Socket 940 heatsinks using the special brackets from |
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> Tyan. |
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Wow. Last time I bought a mobo, I bought Tyan from Monarch, referred |
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from pricewatch.com. Pricing mobos, CPUs, and heat-sinks/fans separately |
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at the lowest cost on pricewatch, Monarch was charging like $25 to ship |
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it all assembled and tested. In addition, that meant I ordered it all |
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together (I did order memory separately, from someone else) instead of |
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having to worry about ordering and getting separate packages from several |
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different places. So I did it that way. They shipped it already |
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assembled, so until very recently, when I took one of the heatsinks off |
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to check that I could do so and reuse them when I order my dual Opteron |
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290s, I'd never even had the heat-sinks off the CPUs. |
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I guess that's one way to ensure you get the right one! =8^) I was quite |
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pleased with Monarch service as well as price (tho their prices on memory |
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were only average, thus my buying that elsewhere), and will likely order |
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from them again next time I upgrade. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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