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 GA-K8A480M-9 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.