ASRock Haswell boards to feature waterproofing, better audio, 802.11ac

[ghasmanjr]

No, I mean conductive. Capacitance is the ability to maintain a charge, not conduct electricity.

You are wrong about conductive materials. Any material that will conduct electricity is conductive and can be used as a conductor. Every conductor has a resistance, the only question is how much resistance. Any and all stray resistance can change electronic properties of any circuit. Why do you think they use special fluids in submersible electronics. These fluids are electrically non-conductive (aka: Electric Insulator) and will properly cool without changing electronic properties of the components submerged.

Yes, every conductor has a resistance but the purpose of using copper for wiring is because it features a low resistance. Why do you think that is used to wire your house and not tin? Tin is cheaper but has a helluva lot larger resistance. You will not see random stray resistance pockets from the thin waterproofing coating.

 

[cliffordcooley]

You will not see random stray resistance pockets from the thin waterproofing coating.

You will if the waterproofing substance used is electrically conductive. Which is what I was questioning above. If a substance used in waterproofing card/memory slots are electrically non-conductive, you take the risk of insulating the contacts within the connector.

Waterproofing card/memory slots with either conductive or non-conductive substance would be a bad idea. However using a conductive substance would be far worse than using non-conductive.

Edit:
I have no idea why you are speaking about the conductive properties of copper, that has nothing to do with the conductive properties in sealants.

 

[ghasmanjr]

Edit:
I have no idea why you are speaking about the conductive properties of copper, that has nothing to do with the conductive properties in sealants.

I'm a chemist. When I see "conductive material", I immediately relate any and all things to copper because I understand the quantum theory behind why it is such a good conductor.
I do agree that waterproofing the expansion slots would be a terrible idea. I never denied that. I merely said it was possible. I could have said highly unlikely because that emphasizes the low probability.

 

[Jad Chaar]

Science fight!

 

[cliffordcooley]

I do agree that waterproofing the expansion slots would be a terrible idea. I never denied that. I merely said it was possible. I could have said highly unlikely because that emphasizes the low probability.

At least we got that out of the way. Perhaps we can drop the conductive material discussion, as we are probably trying to say the same thing.

 

[Guest]

Ah, I always love the hubbub about onboard audio. Just get a receiver and run optical or HDMI audio to it. Voila, suddenly your onboard audio issues are moot. What makes this interesting is that the motherboard can now properly drive a nicer set of headphones, which is something that enthusiasts have had to bend over backwards to achieve in the past.

Now, you may be thinking "But why do I need the motherboard to drive headphones well if I just have a reciever already?" Well, you aren't bringing it to a LAN party, are you?

It would be awesome to see that feature make its way to mobile devices.