[Review]XFX nForce 790i Ultra
Introduction
First impression: lots of non-solid capacitors looks bad, sharp corners may hurt one’s hand… All these just not suit 79i Ultra as a top board of NVIDIA
Intel P35 will be EOLed in Dec
Intel’s new main stream chipset P45 will be officially announce in ComputeX this year. And the mobo will also come out soon. But the launch of P45 means P35 will finally facing EOL.
From Info we gathered, we know though P35 and P45 do not have much differences, but after P45’s launch, P35 will still last long enough to Nov.08. It will going EOLed at the end of this year. it is a little later than expected.
Intel’s first Nehalem mobo is X58
As we known, Intel’s next gen processor will be Nehalem, and desktop Nehalem will be Bloomfield. It is a 45nm process technology 4 core CPU, integrated with memory controller, SMT (Simultaneous Multi-threading) up to 8 processing threads, and w/ 8M cache. It has been revealed in IDF 08, but at that time no the supporting mobo is still being kept in secret.
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ECS X48/P45 Black series mobo preview
Both ECS X48T-A and P45T-A are products of Black series, though we do not know what the price point is, but from the layout we guess it won’t be expensive.. The X48T-A features 6 phase VRM for CPU, four DDR3 slot, a not-so-appeal heatpipe cooling system and two PCIe X16 slot.
Heatpipe+water block, P45 Diamond first look
MSI have already post one P45 with loads of heatpipe, but this time they are going further, prepared a water block on the chipset. The design reminds us lots of ASUS boards. All these pics are from HKEPC.
Different from ASUS, MSI using flashion acrylic as part of the water block.
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.
Intel P45 coming soon… ASUS mid range P45 mobo first look
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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First Look: Galaxy MagicBox, a multifunction panel
Today we have a hands on with this unreleased product of Galaxy, the MagicBox. At first sight we thought it is only a ordinary panel with card reader and RPM control slap together. But after some demonstrations from Galaxy dev we find out it is quite useful.
With all the features you can see in front of the panel like card reader, RPM control, USB, eSATA expansion and CMOS clear button. Thanks to a single chip micyoco built in the panel (they call it MPU, MagicBox Processing Unit), with it linked to a Galgxy mobo, it turn out to be a standard mobo debug card, or CPU turbo and automatic fan control.
Thermalright+DFI: X48-T2R+cooler bundle hits shelf tomorrow!
DFI will keep the partnership with Thermalright, release a X48-T2R+cooler bundle tomorrow in Taiwan area. IT IS MASSIVE, and will be expensive..let’s just let pics talk:
GeForce 8300 HD video playback ability is decent, but not perfect
In a previous post some day ago we have reported “the high utilization bar of MPEG2 decoding still shows us this GeForce 8200 is not a 100% decoding solution. We hope it is only a ES issue, they can fix the problem when it finally hits the market.”
And this time we managed to run the same HD video test on GeForce 8300, (or you can call it MCP78U). GeForce 8300 is a upgrade version of GeForce 8200, have a higher Shader clock(up to 1500MHz), and better GeForce Boost performance.
The mobo we ran is another ES, so the final number may differ from retail version. We find out the GeForce 8300 have some improvements of HD video playback, read the pic for details.
AMD 790GX spy pics leaked
Unika’s 790GX spy pic have been leaked on the net. Different from what we saw in Donanimhaber, the board is still an ES and without a cooler. What’s more, it got a integrated memory module, for the integrated HD 3300.
The board have two PCIe slot, and if Fudzilla is right, then the board can have a special hybrid 3-way crossfire with two limited GFX cards.
EagleLake comes early, loads of Gigabyte GA EP45 DS3P pics
In CeBIT, lots of companies showed off their P45 mobo, but it is the first time to see a retail version of P45 and loads of details.
“DS3″ in a Gigabyte product means the product is low end. But look at this one: full solid capacitors; DES; ICH10…The price will be high at its launch.