hi guys i am using hardware monitor and he is giving me the temp of the gpu gtx 280 = 60 during flying fsx and 45 on idle is that normal or what!!!!???thanx

>hi guys i am using hardware monitor and he is giving me the>temp of the gpu gtx 280 = 60 during flying fsx and 45 on idle>>is that normal or what!!!!???Don't worry. 60

I have just got mine installed. Just waiting on a CPU now. Man is it huge. I thought I would get a Gigabyte card to match the motherboard thinking they would make a board that is compatible with the graphics cards they make but unfortunately no.The card sits directly over two of the 6 SATA ports rendering them unusable. It also is hard up against two of the other 4 putting slight side pressure on the card. Thats gives me just 2 ports for my RAID0 disks, 1 port for my Blue Ray DVD, and 1 port for the external connector.--- John

Pick up 2 90 degree SATAII cables which should work. They will be tight with the card over them but they will work between the card and the board.

Nice suggestion but didn't work. I already had two 90 cables that came with the motherboard. Unfortunately the ports are configured so that it you put a 90 degree cable in either of the ports it covers the other port up so there is only 1 port available from the 2.---John

>Nice suggestion but didn't work. I already had two 90 cables>that came with the motherboard. Unfortunately the ports are>configured so that it you put a 90 degree cable in either of>the ports it covers the other port up so there is only 1 port>available from the 2.>>---John>Sadly the only remedy at this point is to either get a shorter graphics card or replace the motherboard. There's no magic fix here. I recommend you do the latter, since shorter graphics cards in this era are going to be of an entirely different performance category and unlikely to satisfy your needs.

Not going to do either. The MB is brand new and brought specifically for its features. I don't think it would help anyway as they all seem to put things in the same place these days anyway. The video card was brought the smae reason.I have enough SATA ports for now but if I want to expand the RAID0 to more drives or different type I will be out of luck. There is 1.5TB of storage there now so I should be right. It's just my Blueray DVD also uses a SATA port.----John

I understand the problem now. You have 2 plugs horizontal and not vertical behind the card preventing the 2nd plug from working.It