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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Eyghon(GB) on June 15, 2010, 11:54:04 pm

Title: Hybrid silent pipe with a PCIe Soundcard
Post by: Eyghon(GB) on June 15, 2010, 11:54:04 pm: Hi,

Is it possible to use the Hybrid silent pipe when using a PCIe soundcard such as the Asus Xonar D2X, if so how?

Regards
Title: Re: Hybrid silent pipe with a PCIe Soundcard
Post by: venganza on June 16, 2010, 06:11:33 am: Quote from: Eyghon(GB) on June 15, 2010, 11:54:04 pm
Hi,

Is it possible to use the Hybrid silent pipe when using a PCIe soundcard such as the Asus Xonar D2X, if so how?

Regards

On what board?

I have the UD9, which has the most massive Hybrid Silent Pipe in the known universe, and it is very low profile where the PCIe cards pass over, I presume this would be the case with other Gigabyte boards :)
Title: Re: Hybrid silent pipe with a PCIe Soundcard
Post by: Eyghon(GB) on June 16, 2010, 11:03:27 am: D'oh forget the important bit of info :-[, it's a UD7, if I have the S\Card installed I can't see any way of using the heatpipe.
Title: Re: Hybrid silent pipe with a PCIe Soundcard
Post by: Dark Mantis on June 16, 2010, 11:25:53 am: No, looking at my UD7 I don't think that it would be possible to install both at the same time.
Title: Re: Hybrid silent pipe with a PCIe Soundcard
Post by: Eyghon(GB) on June 16, 2010, 04:08:05 pm: Bit of a flawed design then I guess, I didn't see any mention about not being able to use the heatpipe while using a PCIe Soundcard in either the Mobo Manual or anywhere before I bought the mobo last Xmas. The last S\card I used was the Vortex2, always stuck to onboard after that but thought I would get back to proper sound when I rebuilt the system this time only to find I can't use the heatpipe ::)
Title: Re: Hybrid silent pipe with a PCIe Soundcard
Post by: Dark Mantis on June 16, 2010, 04:41:13 pm: If you are planning to liqud cool it doesn't really matter as the Northbridge has a cooling block built in. If you are using air only then you can always Cool that area with another fan/heatsink. I do understand that this isn't really the point but it gets you round the problem.
Title: Re: Hybrid silent pipe with a PCIe Soundcard
Post by: Eyghon(GB) on June 16, 2010, 05:18:55 pm: Not planning on WC at the minute and to be honest it's probably quite adequate cooling without the Heatpipe installed, it's a HAF932 case with a NH-U12P SE2 CPU Cooler but that's not really the issue, I'm just p!ssed I can't use the part which I'm presuming is covered in the high cost of the Mobo. I could have sent either the mobo or S\card back but I held off upgrading a long time for a 58A\USB3\SATA6.0 Mobo that I really couldn't be arsed in the end and used it without the pipe, it's taken me 4 months to remember to post on here about it ::)
Title: Re: Hybrid silent pipe with a PCIe Soundcard
Post by: Dark Mantis on June 16, 2010, 05:22:18 pm: I know what you mean. We all have these jobs we mean to get round to but time just passes by(just ask my wife!)