Quote: Originally Posted by
hartigan 
Actually, you can use the processors up to 95W, you just have to ensure that you have the appropriate cooling. Considering most CarPCs are in rather cramped spaces and cooling options are limited, you're right, the 65W cap is recommended.
I concentrate pretty hard on my cooling with my Desktop PCs (multi-block, multi-rad water-cooled systems) so it's only natural for me to aim for the best possible air-cooling with my CarPC.
Very interested to see what your reactions are to that board. It seems like a great option. The PCI-e limit to 4x seems irrelevant, considering the onboard video is MORE than enough for a CarPC (unless you're planning on playing CoD-WaW or something). The onboard audio also seems to be reviewed quite well.
Please be sure to get back to us with your feedback.
Thanks!!
well i have the board, im just waiting on a copper HS for the cpu, i hacked an old socket A copper base HS with AL fins, and spent a day or more on a mounting system for the south and north bridge, i heard that the thing would overheat, so i didnt bother with stock HS, though the heating goes away with fan, for car reasons i went with much bigger and copper base HS
ok so i had it mounted and it worked ok, seems though that even with AMD stock HS the south north bridge chipsets are still warm, but get this... at a room temp reported by mobo not sure how accurate but it stated 95F it was warm as the heat was just on, the MOBO was just in the open, the south/north bridge read at about 125F while in BIOS i loaded windows and it drops way way down, BUT when gaming the temp only went up to 125-127F
so im pretty happy thats pretty good i think
i can feel the HS being warm, and thus its doing good job with the heat transfer, i wish i had a solid copper HS for it, even with the small fan, but its very limited room for HS on the chipset and one on the CPU, pretty much i was forced to by the smallest HS for CPU, i went with a cheap thermaltake one all copper, i will lap the cpu and HS too, the north/south chipset HS was lapped from the past
so with playing UT2004 for more then 30min with just bots at norm details on a 19" the temp stated the same as it would be when in bios, seems that drivers power down the cpu and chipset when in windows and both run nice and cool, when no load on graphics HS was well cold
boot up is really fast with just sata 2.5 drive, the bios doesnt even post only the logo of the mobo shows for like 1-2 sec and then goes directly to windows loading screen
and i havent undervolted my cpu, but it seems that i can do it, sad that i cant undervolt and underclock the IGP, i would love to do that so it doesnt warm up that bad when summer hits, they only have O/C options for IGP
this was with 800mhz ram 2x2gb, and i give 512mb to IGP and windows shows 3.2gb
so only losing a bit of ram due to limitation of 32bit xp
and supports a pretty hefty cpu, which would be of help for this application 
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