[Bittech] Early Look: Gigabyte GA-P45-DS5

2008-04-16 14:02:51

#1

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6725|The Twilight Zone

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Feature List

* Socket 775 Intel Core 2 Duo, Quad and Extreme processor support including 45nm CPUs, as well as Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D and Celeron CPUs from 800 to 1,600MHz FSB.
* Gigabyte Dynamic Energy Saver
* Intel P45 northbridge
* Intel ICH10R southbridge
* Four DDR2 memory slots supporting up to 8 GB of memory at 800-1,200MHz
* Realtek ALC889a chipset supporting up to 7.1 channel High-Definition surround sound with content protection (software depending)
* Two Realtek RTL8111C PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet
* Two PCI-Express x16 slots (either x16/x1 or x8/x8 electrical) supporting ATI CrossFire
* Ten SATA 3Gbps ports – six from the ICH10R southbridge and four from a Silicon Image SiL5723CNU
* One IDE port from a Gigabyte JMicron PATA controller
* Three PCI-Express x1 slots
* Two PCI slots
* Three IEEE1394a Firewire slots from a Texas Instruments chipset: two on the rear I/O, one from motherboard pin-outs

More here: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/0 … -p45-ds5/1

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2008-04-16 14:04:28

#2

Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6809|Long Island, New York

inb4uglyrainbowmobo

Looks/sounds good to me.

2008-04-16 14:06:41

#3

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6735|cuntshitlake

Whereabouts will the pricetag hang?

main battle tank karthus medikopter 117 megamegapowershot gg

2008-04-16 14:06:55

#4

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6686|Finland

meh my x38 is still king of the hill (x48 is x38) <3

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2008-04-16 14:28:17

#5

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6764|N. Ireland

Assuming that its price is okay; that looks like a great motherboard!

2008-04-16 14:53:04

#6

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|6877|Greenwood, IN

Does anyone know why they choose those colors? If they had a black PCB I would gladly buy them over ASUS. I think they have a better motherboards than ASUS but not by much. I hear nothing but good things about Gigabyte with the exception of their colors.

2008-04-16 15:32:37

#7

[CANADA]_Zenmaster: Pope Picard II; +473|7017

Is it just me or is the Reset switch and the Clear SMOS switch not aligned with the correct pinouts on the actual mobo?

2008-04-16 15:37:35

#8

Gooners: Wiki Contributor; +2,700|6904

[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:
Is it just me or is the Reset switch and the Clear SMOS switch not aligned with the correct pinouts on the actual mobo?

Ermmmmmmmmm that's what it looks like.

2008-04-16 15:43:13

#9

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7115|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Gooners wrote:
[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:
Is it just me or is the Reset switch and the Clear SMOS switch not aligned with the correct pinouts on the actual mobo?
Ermmmmmmmmm that's what it looks like.

3-dimensional ftw lol.

2008-04-16 15:44:47

#10

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|6820|UK

Naturn wrote:
Does anyone know why they choose those colors? If they had a black PCB I would gladly buy them over ASUS. I think they have a better motherboards than ASUS but not by much. I hear nothing but good things about Gigabyte with the exception of their colors.

It's to make it as easy as possible for the user to put the machine together. I will grant you it may not look 'purdy' in the, blue light LED windowed garish looking case, but, for all intents and purposes, it is a quality product. And, well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I personally quite like the colour scheme, kinda quirky and far from mondane.

Martyn

2008-04-16 18:35:19

#11

The#1Spot: Member; +105|6811|byah

Poseidon wrote:
inb4uglyrainbowmobo

Looks/sounds good to me.

at least they are toning down the vivid rainbow colors

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