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JustAnEngineer wrote:What do you intend to use the PCI slots for?
thegleek wrote:All those golden cap's are neat too! I wonder if they plated normal cap's or perhaps these are special order? I've never come across these on a mobo yet...
LoneWolf15 wrote:I think it works out pretty well that way. Meet my new baby.
thegleek wrote:LoneWolf15 wrote:I think it works out pretty well that way. Meet my new baby.
I've been meaning to ask you what/where you purchase that black sound-proofing stuff you put inside your cases? Is it easy to apply? Does it really do anything besides look nice?
LoneWolf15 wrote:It is called Paxmate, it's about 4mm thick adhesive-backed high density foam. Frozencpu and other mod shops carry it, it is relatively inexpensive.
How well it works depends on what you want from it. It is helpful with thinner, lighter aluminum cases that are more prone to vibration, or thin budget-steel cases. I doubt it is as effective with heavier steel cases, for those, you will probably need a thicker insulator which costs a lot more and isn't as easy to work with.
I still want to like this board, even with a few warts here and there. We've seen a few Z68 issues that have yet to be fully fleshed out, but I'm hoping that most of them from any manufacturer will be cleaned up in due time.
I'm still looking at making the GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD my next board, as its onboard 20gb mSATA SSD will be used with the Z68's SRT technology as a cache to my RAID'ed WD Black 1tb HDs. The Asrock board was (and still is) #2 on my list for my build, but it is indeed a distant #2 until another board offers an mSATA for a built in SSD.
LoneWolf15 wrote:UPDATE
I believe that exchanging the board for an identical one won't solve my problems, so I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD5 on the way.
I really liked that Asrock board; it had all the features I wanted, and was stable, at a great price. Unfortunately, the support is lackluster, and I don't have faith in what kind of support I'll get if I have further issues.
moxsea wrote:LoneWolf15 wrote:UPDATE
I believe that exchanging the board for an identical one won't solve my problems, so I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD5 on the way.
I really liked that Asrock board; it had all the features I wanted, and was stable, at a great price. Unfortunately, the support is lackluster, and I don't have faith in what kind of support I'll get if I have further issues.
Looks like the UD5, unlike the now-returned ASRock board, comes without a data cable connector to support your floppy drive. What solution for implementation of the floppy now?
moxsea wrote:What solution for implementation of the floppy now?
thegleek wrote:moxsea wrote:What solution for implementation of the floppy now?
That's stupid. That's like asking what's the implementation for using punch cards and crap. Dead technology dude. Move on. If you still have floppies around, get a USB and transfer over those uber small footprints over to a usb stick or something!
"On 29 January 2007, PC World stated that only 2% of the computers they sold contained built-in floppy disk drives; once present stocks were exhausted, no more standard floppies would be sold." - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... lumps.html
thegleek wrote:So LoneWolf, what will you do then when the floppy's on mobo's aren't supported by anyone in the world? They'll be as useful as 8track tapes... meh
LoneWolf15 wrote:That seems silly.thegleek wrote:It's for one-off "I need a quick boot disk" for fixing things stuff.So LoneWolf, what will you do then when the floppy's on mobo's aren't supported by anyone in the world?
JustAnEngineer wrote:LoneWolf15 wrote:That seems silly.thegleek wrote:It's for one-off "I need a quick boot disk" for fixing things stuff.So LoneWolf, what will you do then when the floppy's on mobo's aren't supported by anyone in the world?
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817130124