Did you read the title of the article? It's an article specifically about the style of this unit. If you want a review, read a review on it. That was not the intent.

That's like reading an article about exploding batteries and bitching at the author because they didn't go into details on how long said battery would last on a charge. It's not the point.

CD has a point logan. the 680/650 were pretty hot. i know cause i had a 650i constantly at 55C with a fan on the heatsink. the 7XX series are even worse with the heat. look up some reviews. comparatively intel and amd have consistently kept lower heat output in their chipsets.

Nvidia chipsets... board for board do run hotter than any other chipset... this is a fact since nforce3s mate...

you cant cook an egg on 1 though... unless you fit a 'special' attachment (codenamed fry1ng pan) ;)

Don't really care how it looks... or if it looks 'dorky'. Does it work better? Does it give you a better OC? Does it lower system (or chipset) temps? Does it negatively interfere with air flow for other cooling? Does it impact what type of COU cooler you can use?

I know this website is more about style over actual substance, but could you at least make a note of how it performs and occasionally give a small nod to performance and substance?

Why do you u associate hot with bad? my 650 nb hs is way too hot to touch. but it doesn't half take a shit load of volts. which is good.

@ Nick Dude, first get a clue. He was talking about comparing stand alone NB and SB chipsets, not intergrated video based NBs. Second, the massive problem is in the laptop sector, not desktop and has to due largely with a combined oopps from OEms and Nvidia. Nvidia for setting cooling standards to low and OEM then going even further by making fan speed slower than they should be. Again, you can not compare a desktop NB without vgu to all-in-1 laptop solutions, which you are clearly doing, as was nitwit CD. Again, proud owner of 3x 680i's and 2x 650i's without an issue.

you do realize this board has been on the market for more than a year now in retail shops... what's new?

@ Logan26, Obviously you have never come across a faulty NVidia GPU then that have been plaguing computers world wide for the last 6 months or so.

One of the symptoms is a massive amount of heat. NVidia blast furnaces is putting it mildly!

"but they are not Nvidia-class blast furnaces."

This comment shows clearly even more how bias he is. Someone please explain why this douchebag is still employeed by you? I own several NForce based machines and they are not blast furances, hell, they aren't even close to being micro heaters.

Well if you buy a mobo for style, you get what you pay for I guess. For average people, that fancy crap is probably not worth it.

Clearly CD has no style. Charlie don't surf.