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3-Way Motherboard Shootout

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hard-look-at-hardware dept.

Steve writes "Hexus.net has put three high-end i955X-based motherboards through their paces, to see which is the best LGA775 platform motherboard. Intel's own offering falls a little short, but Gigabyte and ABIT both make compelling boards, with ABIT taking the top-spot by a small margin."

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  1. What about quality? by CyricZ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How is the quality of these boards? Will they still be working in two or three years? Or will they have leaking capacitors by that time?

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  2. pssst.... by KillShill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    these motherboards contain intel's DRM technology.

    pass it on.

    http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2449

    search for DRM in the above site for confirmation and some extra info.

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  3. Not using SLI, but have ASUS boards by dsci · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if someone can find another reason to buy a motherboard with an extra high speed PCI-e slot... that's another story though.

    I did.

    I'm running ASUS A8N-SLI's with Athon 64 X2's on board in a small cluster. I'm not using the SLI feature.

    I got these boards because:

    1. ASUS performance is solid with the dual core Athlon 64.
    2. Dual GbE on-board; no purchase of second NIC to use as headless cluster.

    I can tie one NIC into my existing LAN and keep the other for the dedicated cluster interconnect. I don't have a KVM, but I can ssh directly into any node if need be.

    3. *IF* I can full around and offload SOME number crunching to the GPU(s), maybe the SLI will come in handy in the future? It's a thought I'll keep in the back of my mind.

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