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Who uses three PCI slots anymore and why did they have to place both PCIe x1 slots between the two x16 slots? That just does not make sense anymore considering the number of PCIe peripherals.

Hey Dan... Just wondering how it ends up with a silver award with those kind of comments in the article? ;) Otherwise, did you have any problems with an i920 on the board?

I thought the board was just released a couple of months ago??? :D Thanks for the link to the updated BIOS. Looking at this review and the UD5, it just seems as though the UD5 is the better buy (even stated so in this review), yet this board gets an award and the UD5 does not. :confused:

What has not been addressed here is FRAPS. The program typically has an overhead of 3%~15% depending on the game engine and settings. Also, replaying the same "demo" several times with FRAPS measuring the framerate will usually generate another 5% variance (on average) between each test. In...

Your example of FEAR is using the built-in benchmark. I am not even discussing that point. I am talking about using the timedemo functionality in games that support it to actually record gameplay and then using that recording to develop FPS data, now you can use the game engine in certain...

Timedemos are real-time and exact copies of actual gameplay (those sequences happening during the record process) when you record them. Depending on the engine (most of the new games released in the last year) these timedemos include the full physics and capabilities of the game, which is what...

You need to use BIOS T12130. ;)

Not if you want to run this board at 535FSB stable, it requires 1.9V+ on the Northbridge. That will get you about 60C on the stock heatsink, not exactly cool. :rolleyes:

System power consumption numbers are here - http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2891&p=6 This chipset runs anything but cool when overclocking. ;)

Why has the card not been reviewed here? I already read the "company evaluation" article by Kyle but I would like to see a review done.

Since I had to be reminded of performance issues on every other page due to the KillerNIC ad, I was just wondering if you tested this card on the 4x4 platform. Maybe it could have improved your gaming framerates by 41% which would been enough to defeat Kentsfield :p

:eek: :eek: I thought the article was AMD biased after reading the C2D review again looking for reasons at to why the original conclusion was stated. Probably not that biased but overall there is no reason to believe this platform is a real competitor to the Kentsfield platform at this...

What were your results with the Conroe chips? Allendales are fairly easy to overclock and it would be nice to see some results when using air cooling also. Not everyone is interested in using a Koolance system when overclocking. ;)

The system gets a 6/10 for value and a statement that basically says you should buy a similar but less expensive unit and it is still "Recommeded". Why?

Good review, but is it just me, or does every system that the Consumer guys touch end up having a major issue. ;) Really, what are the odds of every system being reviewed having an issue. Maybe the Fed-Ex or UPS guys have an issue with your office and the systems are abused before delivery. :D