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Motherboard Preview From Comdex
adpowers writes "Anandtech has a large preview of upcoming motherboards shown at Comdex."
P4s dominating Athlons, lots of DDR SDRAM boards. A quite lengthy article. The FIC pages have several interesting looking PCs, I dig the AquaPad, a WinCE Transmeta box.
i have to disagree with linux requires a lot of maintance. This is from my more limited experience but i have run a 10-20 computer network with routing, webserver, database, and printing. At times i forget about the server because its working so well. Then i will do a dist-upgrade and install a new kernel, and it will reboot and work perfectly again. This computer was built with spare parts in my basement. Its also named "Timmy" (from southpark) for a reason ;)
"...most manufacturers are not willing to get on Intel's bad side by supporting a controversial (or as Intel would say, illegally produced) chipset that offers no real advantages over the aforementioned two"
This just shows that in tough times, the rich get richer and strip the balls out of the companies that support them. I miss the late 90's.
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i've been boycotting Comdex ever since i realized they were never going to feature an upgraded mainboard for my dual processor 486....
and it looks like this year is no exception.
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Sure some of the new Mobos with the trouble or post/boot LEDs by the ATX block are cool and all, but I'd like to see some real wowers. Like Holographic logos or images, LEDs in the fans that make cool effects, something that reminds me of a sequential flashing dilithium containment chamber, or just some cool colors on the mobo showing off it's sections or pathways. Anything would be better than the normal old motherboard sitting there, looking all blah.
In short, I want better use of a windowed case than just seeing if my fans are still spinning.
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No, Linux doesn't require a lot of maintenance, as Microsoft will have you believe. It does take some skill to set up properly, more than the average windows user typically uses, but you can then forget about it, unless you want to make everything cooler by modifying it a lot, which you can do if you try. Much better than the windows config strategy of hiding everything from you.
Microstar makes some motherboards using cool colors...
Check out this board for single Athlons or this board for single P4's.
The font page has some more examples as well.
Dude, what would the point of a trade show be if you were going to see stuff that is available? Thats like going to a strip club where all the dancers are ex-girlfriends.
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Still holding my breath for a dual P4 board, and I'm starting to turn a little blue. From what I have learned, the P4s that exist today are not SMP capable, and only Xeons will support multiprocessor configurations. Pity. I was starting to get used to cheap dual systems.
Looks like I'll have to have the 440 line and room cooler installed in my den before I can have a dual AMD system...
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I'd prefer Linux, and it's only a matter of time...
I guess we'll just have to wait and see what they want for them. I'm definately interested in a tablet PC. Having never learned to type I can't say I'd miss the keyboard much.
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- Abit's WA2A
- Asus's (AM266-D?)
- Gigabyte's GA-7DPXDW
- MSI's (MS-6501?)
Some questions (apart from the official release date, or more importantly the "in stock" date) sprung to my mind after checking some of those photos:- Why do the Abit doesn't seem to have USB ports? Or is it rather the PS/2 ports that are missing? (Check the upper right corner)
- Again on the Abit, on the bottom left, there's a PLCC (or another Quad side package) that's empty. Do any of you know if they usually show working motherboards, or rather engineering samples that may do nothing?
- The ASUS is the only one with a full-blown heat-sink (w/o fan) on the North bridge, the other ones only have a heat spreader. For the look only or more stable operation?
- On the Gigabyte, what kind of ports are in the upper center part? Firewire ports? And again, there's only one set of ports at the top (either USB or PS/2). I find it quite strange.
Fortunately, all of those motherboards are equipped with mounting holes for the CPU heatsinks. Now to find some quite quiet HSF to go with that pair of MP 1600+...these new mobos will hasten the arrival of serial data and higher bus speeds, because we are on the verge of breaking moore's law. Also, one of the biggest problems is making smaller chips that run cool enough to be worthwhile.
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It does take some skill to set up properly, more than the average windows user typically uses, ...
Yes, but the average windows user doesn't bother to properly set up his machine. Thus Code Red, Nimda, et al. In fact the average Windows user probably couldn't even install the OS if he had to. I think it's actually easier to properly set up a Linux machine than a Windows one, but the key there is properly set up.
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From: AnandTech's article:
As a person who is eagerly awaiting the nForce to be released, I have a question... Can anyone think of why it's taking so long for the manufacturers to make a working nForce mobo when the reference mobo works just fine? Also, why are they so non-enthusiastic about this otherwise good-looking chipset?
The only two things I can think of are:
Um... like I said, these are just guesses... anyone else?
It's funny how everything from "Myth: Linux is more secure than Windows NT" down is in very small print. Maybe they shrank the font after Code Red?
It kinda worries me that NVidia is trying to get into the chipset market in a big way, knowing their track record for refusing to publish data on their video cards so people can develop open source drivers. Does anyone have more info about this or is it all vaporware right now?