Intel P45 mobo Going wild
Though Intel’s P45 chipset still have a whole month to wait for the official product launch, several companies’ P45 have already got previewed. Click over for preview for there mobo previews.

Though Intel’s P45 chipset still have a whole month to wait for the official product launch, several companies’ P45 have already got previewed. Click over for preview for there mobo previews.


Matbe reported that they have spotted two ASUS mobo. The frist one is a mid range P45, called P5Q-E and the other is a entry level P5Q Pro. P45 chipset supports 1600MHz FSB and DDR3, but these two boards only support DDR2 memory.
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There is always an urban legend: NVIDIA motherboard didn’t get along well with ATI cards. We always think this kind of thing is only tales but we just met one today.

Our test bed have encountered a compatibility issue
Finally the mobo comes out with NVIDIA’s improvement:DDR3 support. Of course Asus slaps a water block on the north bridge, changes the heat sink of the south bridge. the mobo will begin selling soon but we don’t know their price yet.


The long awaiting Asus Striker II series mobo finally leaks some imformations. Striker II is based on 790i, Striker II Extreme is 790i Ultra, and Striker II NSE is a normal 790i. Both mobos are standard ATX design, and feature on-board reset/power button.

Here comes a new Asus X38 workstation version: P5E64-WE. It is a X38 plus ICH9R board, with ADI AD1988B audio and dual Marvell gigabyte Lan.

Striker II Formula
If you happend to check download section of ASUS’s site these day, you can see a new R.O.G. is coming. The new R.O.G. is Striker II Extreme.
Go to the download section, select motherboard and socket 775, and scroll down the third bar to the end, and you can find Striker II Extreme on the list.

The spec of the GPU keeps the same, but the code changed.
Without a notice, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS comes. Yesterday our report already have some info about that card, and today we want to talk about its manufacturer.
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Words are going out from Asus and now the offical pics the 780i mobo, P5N-T Deluxe. The mobo have Asus’s usual design: tons of heatpipes.

Ok now we have seem the original 8800GTS, the BFG’s, and the XFX’s. And at OCxtreme we saw the ASUS’s 8800GTS 512M. The card is reference design, GPU also clocked at 650MHz. But the owner of the card OC it a lot, seems want to prove that the G92-8800GTS have a good OCbility.

Today rumor said ASUS’8800GT will go for 1G GDDR3, and with the rumor thereis a nice pic. Let’s compare 8800GT 1G to Asus 8800GT 512M, and you will seelot’s of difference.


What’s your impression of ASUS Republic of Gamer series? dulxue package? large amount of accessories? or pretty board design? The G-SURF365 certian will break your impression. It is only a low end nforce 630a mobo. It so weird that Asus would risk their brand to release the low end mobo.
Being a low end mobo it have limited numbers of slot: only have two PCI plus one PCIe, two standing DDR2 slot and one AM2 CPU slot. The biggest selling point of this mobo is its G-Guardian system.
G-Guardian actually is a protective system made with plastic. And extreme user won’t think it is interesting.
G-Gardian have two parts: Memory and I/O:

thief with screwdriver can easly unlock it..