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O darn. I can still cancel the board, it's going out tomorrow.
Do you know if any of the other boards support 1.35v RAM? It's hard to find information about that...
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Stats: 29W idle, 55W load, CPU 38-43°C idle, CPU 55-60°C load, HDD 42-43°C idle, HDD 47°C load
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I am not currently an ASRock fan. I much prefer ASUS or Gigabyte. I can't imagine most motherboard will vary more than a few watts so I don't see why 20-25W idle would not be achieveable. I think though it's going to be whatever it'll be and I would focus on quality and features you needs vs. a few watts.
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The audio and Ethernet chipsets seem to be different on the two boards -- and the VIA chip on the Gigabyte seems to be causing problems on Linux (at least that's what Google tells me).
So the ASUS P8Z77-M Pro is now the front runner -- just need to confirm that 1.35V RAM works with it, and 23.976 is possible.
Dougie Fresh, can you comment on that -- since you suggested the board in the first place :-D
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I don't know. I used several of these for office PCs so 1.35V RAM and 23.976Hz wasn't part of the required feature set. I can only comment that the client is very happy and they've had no issues with these boards.
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The P8H77-M PRO looks like a good one to me. I like that it has heatsinked VRMs.
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How bad is the 24p issue with the hd4000? Does the a6 chip suffer frame drops at 24p as well?