This is how my A1G4XE-system will be at the end:

[Hammer]

The nortbridge from VIA does not need cooling, and wont get very hot at all.

I recall my old box's VIA Northbridge has a heat sink installed (MSI built motherboard). Are you referring to the VIA south bridge?  

[Hammer]

iamaboringperson wrote:

YUCK! lian-li! aluminium!! ewww!!!!
gimme pressed steel! like my A4000T
i want real quality and a full tower too!

There’s nothing wrong with brushed aluminium finish since it’s lighter than steel and it matches with my brushed finished stainless steel/titanium kitchen appliances.    

[Hammer]

ple3003 wrote:

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The nortbridge from VIA does not need cooling, and wont get very hot at all.
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I recall my old box's VIA Northbridge has a heat sink installed (MSI built motherboard). Are you referring to the VIA south bridge?

Seems like i got some facts mixed up  :-)
I actually meant tha Articia northbridge chip, that doesn't need cooling. neither do the VIA southbridge....

Heat sinks are just over clocking and 4X AGP. Most modern X86 BIOS gives you some over clocking abilities.

My old VIA chipset powered X86 motherboard can clock to 200 Mhz FSB (within the EV6 design specs).

Finding SDRAM modules (non-DDR) that support this speed would be near impossible.

Note MAI’s north bridge designs also supports X86 CPUs (they are almost equivalent to Intel BX440 chipset generation).

It would be nice if nVidia chipsets supports both PPC and X86, just like MAI’s designs.