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Cebit 2005 - Day 3 |
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Gigabyte
The GA-8I955X Royal is the new flagship motherboard using Intel's i955X chipset:
- Intel Pentium 4 LGA 775
- FSB 1066
- Dual Channel DDR2 667 Support
- 1x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI-E x1, 3x PCI
- 4x SATA II RAID
- 7.1 Channel Audio
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- Dual Bios
- U-Plus DPS, adds more PWM phases to motherboard for a total of 8
The GA-8N-SLI Royal uses NVIDIA's nForce4 for Intel chipset allowing SLI:
- Intel Pentium 4 LGA 775
- FSB 1066
- Dual Channel DDR2 667 Support
- 2x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI-E x1, 2x PCI
- 6x SATA II RAID
- 7.1 Channel Audio
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- Dual Bios
- U-Plus DPS, adds more PWM phases to motherboard for a total of 8
The GA-8I945P Pro uses Intel's i945P chipset. The GA-8I945G Pro has on-board video via Intel's chipset - that is the only difference between the two boards.
- Intel Pentium 4 LGA 775
- FSB 1066
- Dual Channel DDR2 667 Support
- 1x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI-E x1, 3x PCI
- 4x SATA II RAID
- 7.1 Channel Audio
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Dual Bios
Running on Intel's i915P Chipset the GA-8I915P Dual Graphic allows the simultaneous use of two PCI-E video cards:
- Intel Pentium 4 LGA 775
- FSB 800
- Dual Channel DDR 533 Support
- 2x PCI-E x4, 1x PCI-E x1, 3x PCI
- 4x SATA RAID
- 7.1 Channel Audio
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Dual Bios
Using VIA's PT880 Pro Chipset the GA-8VT880P Combo has these features:
- AMD64 Socket 939
- Dual Channel DDR 400 Support
- 1x PCI-E x16, 1x AGP 8x, 3x PCI
- 2x SATA RAID
- 5.1 Channel Audio
- Gigabit Ethernet
Based on ATI's RS480 chipset and ULI's southbridge the [b]GA-K8A480M-9[b] offers:
- AMD64 Socket 939
- 2000 MHz HTT
- Dual Channel DDR 400 Support
- 1x PCI-E x16, 1x PCI-E x1, 2x PCI
- Integrated X300 in ATI Chipset
- 4x SATA RAID
- 7.1 Channel Audio
- Gigabit Ethernet
Gigabyte has put this completely passive cooler on several video cards ranging from to X800NP. While they say it runs completely stable I am not really convinced of it. A backup fan would have probably been a good idea .. or a "Hot! Do not touch" sticker.
Continue to Day 4.
