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yet the board comes LOADED with junk. In all honesty, if I were to build a Mobo for GAMING only, there would be only one Lan card, no FW, 1 PCIe x16, maybe 1 PCI and 1 PCIe x1 slot and not all this JUNK. Also, a gaming PC doesn't need more than two SATA connector etc...Features that gamers don't use were removed from the board, freeing up performance and allowing us to add features that you would actually use.
Frallan said:Yupp Bendil might be right.. However I would like someone with a tech degree and a lot of experience to look at how this board was built. I wonder if ABits Financial problems didn't make Abit cut a few corners to much. But i have no idea it is just me speculating...
mjz_5 said:Just a small question. Why is there an Intel Pentium Extreme overclock but no AMD FX CPUs overclock in your gaming benchmark section. Because of these, it makes the Pentium look far superior than its better AMD counterparts.
qdemn7 said:My thoughts exactly when I heard about this board. Kudos Kyle, this is the kind of reporting I expect from the [H].
One thought though. When the 915 / 925 chipsets were announced, within days every mobo company had multiple models of boards announced or available. Compare that with the trickling in of NForce 4 boards. Look how damn difficult it is to find a NF4 board, and the price premiums some have paid and are paying. Even the fact that the the Inquirer reports there are large numbers of unsold 9XX boards (probably for just the reason Kyle mentions), it still doesn't say much about Nvidia.
NoGodForMe said:This board would probably kick butt in a multitasking photoshop environment, where the person does some gaming.
lpnakira said:I would like to see some day ( and maybe ill try it here ) is a " Pepsi "challenge between an AMD FX-55 and an Intel P4 3.46EE and see if customers can tell. I really don't think they will. Do you?
lpnakira said:Nice work Kyle and crew. you help us purchasers out there pick the prods to carry all the time.
arentol said:The one thing I am confused about with this article is why the other boards weren't tested with Overclocked settings. After all, the main thing Abit is about is Overclocking.
When testing Abit boards you should do it backwards. Max OC all the systems in the review and THEN if you have time do "default settings" for as many systems as you can.
You have to remember that when you OC a motherboard you are literally changing the positioning of all the 1s and 0s that make up the data.
Nvidiot said:This was in relation to Prime95 not working with 325 Mhz FSB. What does OC'ing the FSB have to do with the position of the 1's and 0's? Hopefully you were being sarcastic in your statement, but if you were serious please enlighten us non-believers.
Nvidiot said:That quote just struck me as odd.
-Nv
...keep in mind that as the clock speed goes up, so does the critical nature of the rise / fall time requirements. With the faster clock speeds, can the slew rate of the bus drivers keep up, and get that '0' ramped up to a '1' level fast enough to make the "data valid" time window....?? That's one of the issues with OC'ing....one of em', anyway.... What starts to happen is that faster and faster clock speeds start to show up the non-lineraties present in the analog side of the digital system....Nvidiot said:I understand the signal wave forms are being distorted and compressed into a smaller time slice which makes telling the difference between a 1 and 0 much tougher. That makes total sense to me.
Nvidiot said:I thought you were trying to make the case that a byte that consisted of 01011001 would not be stored as 01011001! Or maybe that you thought the 1's and 0's were stored in a different memory location or processed in a different way by the CPU at higher speeds. That's what I thought you were trying to say.
rayman2k2 said:The thing that suprised me was the fact that the memory ran at different speeds...the whole 400 running at 533 and 533 running at 710...
however, comparing this board to the DFI 875-T, I was amazed how much better this was in terms of overclocking. This definately changes my view on the current Socket-T platform, I originally thought that the 875 chipset was a much better overclocker...
BountyHunter-Jonathan Wendel went to my highschool (blue springs south high school, blue springs MO). It seems to me that he's a loser. And, judging by some comments, and an idiot.
Bendill said:The board will most likely be what Jonathan wanted but won't suit others. To each is his own....
Urbi said:I thought the same thing reading the review.
Maybe you know the Simpsons-episode where Homer mets his brother who is the owner of car-factory. Homer is allowed to build his own car. In the end no one but Homer likes the car...
Urbi said:I thought the same thing reading the review.
Maybe you know the Simpsons-episode where Homer mets his brother who is the owner of car-factory. Homer is allowed to build his own car. In the end no one but Homer likes the car...
Jonsey said:I think the otes system is nice. One thing people don't realize is just how hot the mosfets get on a prescott board under load, especially with water cooling. Before I directed air cooling directly on them, they could easily hit 90 - 100 degrees C. Even now, they always get hotter under load than my processor. I wonder about the longetivity of these new 775 boards when attention is not given to cooling the mosfets.
Arvig said:LOL. To be kind of off topic, on a lark I did a Google search on "Fatal1ty Car", and got this:
http://www.cyberfight.org/getimg.php?img_id=3275&PHPSESSID=34a48e8b90d06e8511062a8eb6e0180f
Err...bit over the top on the paint job, eh?
Arvig said:LOL. To be kind of off topic, on a lark I did a Google search on "Fatal1ty Car", and got this:
http://www.cyberfight.org/getimg.php?img_id=3275&PHPSESSID=34a48e8b90d06e8511062a8eb6e0180f
Err...bit over the top on the paint job, eh?