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Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 - A Mother Of A Motherboard
MojoKid writes "Motherboards manufacturers seem to get more exotic in their designs, with each new chipset release. HotHardware has an evaluation posted looking at the Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6; a product that seemingly out does every other current desktop motherboard in a number of key areas. The board features four Gigabit LAN controllers, 10 SATA ports, a 12-phase power array, 100% solid-state capacitors, and a unique wrap-around, passive, cooling apparatus that cools both the top and underside of the chipset and CPU socket area. And because the board is based on NVIDIA's nForce 680i SLI chipset, it also has three full-length PCI Express x16 slots for multi-GPU support. It's a good overclocker and performed well throughout the benchmarks."
...does it go to Eleven?
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Is this really neccesary?
(Before someone else replies, I have the most likely response, "Necessary? Is it necessary that I drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyways because it's sterile and I like the taste." -Patches O'Houlihan)
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
With all the heat piping in this thing it sounds really great for quietness -- except that the heat still has to be removed from the enclosure so that it doesn't toast lots of other electronic whatzits Of course, if they put a little coffee plate on the top of the enclosure you could prolly use one of things to brew up a pot but otherwise the quiet factor goes away because of the newly required higher capacity enclosure fan.
...Open Source isn't the only answer -- but it's almost always a better value than the alternatives...
I intend to launch a tech review site immediately after you give me a copy of that motherboard for review. Just ship it to my house, and I promise you a good review. Mind you I can't really test the board's SLI features unless I have two top-end video cards as well. And I can't really test the overclocking unless you give me a processor, but in the end, you'll get a glowing review. It will be worth it.
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Will it blend?
:)
That is the question
That's a mother of a product name too.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
rather than any genuine advantage).
No need to turn this in to a Microsoft flame war! ^.^
Good bye, sweet Karma....
It's next to the deflector dish and is usually the 2nd thing to be re-aligned when trying to solve some complex, physically impossible, life threatening problem.
"In four hours the ship blows up" -- Scotty (The Savage Curtain)
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." ~1984 George Orwell
You are too stupid to understand nature's simultaneous 12-phase powercube! Cubic Creation of 4 corner separate simultaneous 12 phase Days within 1 Earth rotation - transcends and contradicts the 1 Day rotation and all ONEism / Singularity religions - proving them to constitute Evil on Earth for the parallel Opposites. No god equals 4 corner stages of metamorphic rotating humanity - as a baby, child, parent and grandparent evolution of motherboards! I offer you $10,000.00 to disprove math that 1 rotation of 4 Earth quadrants within the 4 quarter Harmonic Time Cube does create 12 simultaneous 24 hr power phases!
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
Cool! It's really getting hard to find the old vacuum tube caps I'm using now.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I read the article. Seems to me that electrolytic is kind of solid state, but I get the idea. Whatever happened to mica?
What?
Overheard at Gigabyte HQ...