Gigabyte
Gigabyte had a very large presence at Computex and introduced several new board designs based on Intel chipsets.
Gigabyte has an entire series of server related products and was showing several Opteron boards featuring both the NVIDIA and Broadcom chipsets.
The GA-965P-DS4 features the Intel P965 and ICH8R chipsets along with HD audio and dual PCI-E X16 slots for graphics, although the second X16 slot is limited to X4 operation at this time. (All boards with this chipset have the same limitation.) The board also features Gigabyte's new silent heat pipe system along with all capacitors being solid chemical based.
The GA-965QM-S2 features the Q965 chipset designed for businesses along with the ICH8 chipset. The board includes the new Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 and optimized LAN capabilities.
The GA-946PC-S3 features the Intel 946PL and ICH7 chipsets along with HD audio and a PCI-E X16 slot for graphics.
Gigabyte was showing of their new Mobile on Desktop system with the GA-8I945GMMFY-RH (which wins the show award for longest product name) that featured a Core Duo processor, Silent Pipe Radeon X1300 video, and GT-PTV-TAF-RH (we are not making these part numbers up!) Analog/Digital TV tuner card. A very good blend of components for building a silent and inexpensive HTPC system.
Gigabyte had a very large presence at Computex and introduced several new board designs based on Intel chipsets.
Gigabyte has an entire series of server related products and was showing several Opteron boards featuring both the NVIDIA and Broadcom chipsets.
The GA-965P-DS4 features the Intel P965 and ICH8R chipsets along with HD audio and dual PCI-E X16 slots for graphics, although the second X16 slot is limited to X4 operation at this time. (All boards with this chipset have the same limitation.) The board also features Gigabyte's new silent heat pipe system along with all capacitors being solid chemical based.
The GA-965QM-S2 features the Q965 chipset designed for businesses along with the ICH8 chipset. The board includes the new Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 and optimized LAN capabilities.
The GA-946PC-S3 features the Intel 946PL and ICH7 chipsets along with HD audio and a PCI-E X16 slot for graphics.
Gigabyte was showing of their new Mobile on Desktop system with the GA-8I945GMMFY-RH (which wins the show award for longest product name) that featured a Core Duo processor, Silent Pipe Radeon X1300 video, and GT-PTV-TAF-RH (we are not making these part numbers up!) Analog/Digital TV tuner card. A very good blend of components for building a silent and inexpensive HTPC system.
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Zaitsev - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
It sure is nice to see the overwhelming transition to passive chipset cooling. My patients for noisy, stop-working-after-2-months chipset fans ran out along time ago:) It's going to be interesting to see how well the heat pipe solutions work compared to the old fans.aldamon - Tuesday, June 27, 2006 - link
I'd love to see the $60 ASRock 775Dual-VSTA benched with DDR and DDR2 before I drop $200+ on a "Conroe" overclocking board and another $160 - $260 on DDR2.Thanks in advance AT!
larciel - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
It brings back memories from 1996 !!! best buy was filled with their ugly case and IBM's sliding door cases! lolBloodshedder - Friday, June 16, 2006 - link
I had figured they were long dead. If anything, maybe during that ten years they got their act together.Calin - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Seeing so many small boards (micro ATX and so), for when some reviews of small mainboards (regarding compatibility, heat from chipset, performance, underclocking and overclocking)?Thanks
Strunf - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Yup that would be nice, it has been a long time since I've seen a that kind of boards on the test lane.Gary Key - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
We have several AMD/Intel m-ATX boards coming up for review in July along with the Conroe m-ATX boards in August.
Calin - Friday, June 16, 2006 - link
Looks like you will help me decide my birthday present :DThanks
And by the way, could you please please please test onboard video graphic performance (in one or two cases only) with a single DIMM in dual channel boards? And maybe with a Sempron AM2 at 35W (256K cache would be great)?
(Yes, I know I am greedy).
Lots and lots of thanks
Myrandex - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
On the second MSI page, the last motherboard has this comment:The K9VGM-V leads MSI's entry level products for AMD AM2 by combining the VIA K8M890 and VT8237R+ chipsets. Expect to see this board sell for under US $50 later this month.
The motherboard in question is actually the PT890-Neo F for the Intel platform.
Gary Key - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Sorry about that, the file name was cross-linked in the database. It is corrected now.