Oh ASUS, you bring us such joy. When this company isn't busy diluting its Eee brand, it l
oves to pick fights with noted rivals, and this latest spat with Gigabyte (who isn't
at all innocent in this war) is wonderfully trivial. Apparently ASRock, ASUS's budget motherboard wing, has taken it upon itself to inform hardware review websites like
HEXUS of Gigabyte's wasteful implementation of copper. The email ponders: "While the demand for copper keeps increasing and with that the price of this natural resource, why would manufacturers choose to use more copper without any valid reason?" And it gets better: "I [unidentified] am not talking about unnecessary heatpipes that most people do not need, but about Gigabyte's '2 oz Copper PCB'. Gigabyte is adding more copper to the PCB to reduce the heat that is produced by their motherboard, and to spread it across the motherboard so that the heat will dissipate more quickly." Naturally ASRock's own P45 motherboard falls into none such pitfalls, offering better cooling with less copper, and they even provided a handy chart up above in case you don't believe them, you
idiot. Say no to waste!
[Thanks, Jordan]
posted October 12th 2008 10:50AM
No to waste!
There, I said it. Now what should I do?
Yeah, expect more of this "global warming hoax" marketing in the next four years.
That's what this scam is all about, after all.
They want all of your income as taxes and whatever, by some miracle, you have left over will go to this sort of "green" hype.
The UK's already living it, and the people are starting to get wise to it.
Which is why UK courts just called Gore a liar on nine counts.
Been trying to get some info on this on another post.
I don't follow much news on these small 10" portable notebooks.
Does any company have or plan on producing a 10" laptop that has a solid video card to play games?
Looking for a portable laptop to play WAR on.
I like more copper!
Eat Lead, Copper!
You won't pull the trigger, you don't have the stomach.
As I understand it from the first info about this more copper design, the main idea here is to increase the copper so that the resistance in the mobo is lowered, and also to improve the signal and reduce the noice. Something that would be important for overclocking and Vmodding.
Less copper would give a higher resistance, and thus produce more heat, but that effect is rather like a drop in the ocean compaired to the heat generated by the other components.
This whole stunt is a bit like comparing cars based on what color they have.