GIGABYTE gears up for overclockers [Archive]

Ubermann

11-01-2005, 05:48 AM

Gigabyte has today announced the first in a series of motherboards aimed at computer enthusiasts and overclockers looking to get the most out of their system. They're kicking things off with a board based around Intel's 975X Express chipset.
The G1975 also incorporates on-board surround sound. That's no surprise, of course, but what is interesting is the use of a 24-bit Creative chip, rather than good old AC'97 or Intel Hi-def audio.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3806

Quad Master

11-01-2005, 06:06 AM

The board looks cool , also has a new turbojet technology [creative thinking]
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/8322/turbojet9do.jpg

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/2677/gigabytegag19754ov.jpg
Only the Reviews will make it clear how this motherboard can overclock.
I still feel DFI Rules when it comes to overclocking.

The Creative chip on the gigabyte is a nice pluspoint it will reduce the cpu utilization for onboard sound card users.

Mr. Tinker

11-01-2005, 06:09 AM

Get the most out of your system with INTEL! The ultimate gaming processor, Boyeeee!

Entity_Razer

11-01-2005, 06:26 AM

unless they added some special things to the mobo design itsself like thicker traces for the DIMM lines so we can supply more volts, a good lay out in general for the VGA cards and NB-CPU layout i don' t forsee a whole lot of extra overclocking. The 2 small windtunnels don't move THAT much air thanks to those small fans so...

they'll have to do better then install 2 fans on their mobo to please the overclocking community

[XC] leviathan18

11-01-2005, 06:48 AM

^^ exactly + sound is going to be and issue with those smalls fans and besides this has been done already by abit and fatality.... still the dfi is on top, i think if you are an OCer you know your case air flow is very important and that is better than 2 little fans and a wind tunnel

Entity_Razer

11-01-2005, 06:55 AM

indeed? A single 120mm PAPST fan as intake and a 80mm Panaflo or enermax outtake will beat these 2 fans around like play-toy's

Not only do these fans have a large deadzone (large engine, but small fanblades=large deadzone) but their sound is as said above me much higher. They sound a lot sharper/higher due to their small fan blades, higher rotation and just poor design in general.....

Abit and fatality did this to sell, it failed, now Gigabyte will do this, the tric will fail again if they don't actually make adjustments to the mobo itsself besides sticking fans to it.

DFI is still king of the castle as far as I'm concerned.... (now if they'd only make a Dual Xeon DFI mobo :slobber: )

Tim

11-01-2005, 07:04 AM

Woot 7h3 Turbojetzorz for teh uberl33t overcloxorz :woot:

j/k

Looks pretty sweet...interesting design...nice :_

Mats

11-01-2005, 07:32 AM

40 mm fans should be BANNED!! Except in 1U's.
Anything smaller than 80 mm is a joke, there's simply no reason to use them.

FUGGER

11-01-2005, 07:45 AM

Welcome to last week...

Fremont, CA (November 3, 2005) â€“ Elitegroup Computer Systems, Inc., worldâ€™s leading computer hardware and notebook manufacturer, today launched the latest addition to its award-winning Extreme series of motherboards, PF22 Extreme. Taking full advantage of the Intel 955X chipset and ATiâ€™s Crossfire technology, the new PF22 Extreme becomes the worldâ€™s first Intel chipset based motherboard to support two graphics cards in Crossfire mode.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=39353

I got this yesterday :stick:

CHIPSET
Intel 955X & ICH7R
MEMORY
Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture
4 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM socket support up to 8 GB, support ECC&Non-ECC DDR2 667/533 1.8V DDR2 SDRAM
Intel MPT (Intel Memory Pipeline Technology)
EXPANSION SLOT
2 x PCI Express x16 slot <-- typo?? confirming.
1 x PCI Express x1 slot
3 x PCI slots

Good thing is CF on Intel is happening. Didnt mean to go off topic.

Cooper

11-01-2005, 08:09 AM

I guess mobo`s manufacturers make any type of improovements to make Intel chip cooler :p:

Closer look at HKEPC (i975x only is the i955x improvement edition)

i975x only is the i955x improvement edition

Besides it won`t support upcoming architecture. :stick:

Master_G

11-01-2005, 08:44 AM

Only the Reviews will make it clear how this motherboard can overclock.
Lol, never trust reviews on overclocking, only look at what people on here say when overclocking it.
Link dont work for me Cooper.
Crossfire + intel = crazy clockspeeds :D

G

Vincentvega18

11-01-2005, 08:45 AM

You know theyre going to ship more though as people will look at this and then another and sy "that looks a lot better". The kind of people we are, where every little bit counts are few and far between.

uOpt

11-01-2005, 10:14 AM

No &^&^&&# way I'll ever buy a board with mandatory integrated small fans.

Ubermann

11-01-2005, 11:22 AM

Fugger that crap only has 2 fans! =)

Kunaak

11-01-2005, 05:39 PM

Gigabyte has made some good motherboards for socket 754, including the K8NS Pro NF3 that I was really impressed with, once you did a few volt mods for more Vcore.
Vdimm was done just fine with the OCZ DDR booster.
it was a damn fine combo for the time.
Gigabyte has shown that they can make some damn fine overclocking boards, but they always have 1 huge drawback, thier voltage selection is always really low.
like 2.9 volts for ram, and 1.65 volts for CPU and little else.
if they stopped doing that, they would have some damn good boards right out of the box.

plus, when it comes to intel, Seems Asus is about all there is...
no other company really seems to be able to put out a good solid Intel board.
if Gigabyte put just alittle effort into that market, I am sure they would do good.
theres plenty of room in the Intel market for a alternative to Asus boards ;)

n00b 0f l337

11-01-2005, 05:51 PM

Jets are a good idea of sorts.. its giving me ideas.

[XC] Lead Head

11-01-2005, 06:11 PM

err..... thats 4 fans, 2 fans each tube,i have some 60MM fans blow more air than 80MM fans

[XC] leviathan18

11-01-2005, 06:19 PM

perhaps there are some 60mm fans that can blow more than some 80mm fans but how low they are.... it doesnt matter if there are 2 40mm fanes per wind tunnel the best ive seen from a 40mm fan is something like 5cfm so that is not that much..

i think if you put a nice 120mm over that zone you will have better temps

saaya

11-01-2005, 06:20 PM

the ecs has one fan, the gigabyte has 4 fans! :woot:
seriously though, those tiny fans barely move air, and if they spin fast enough to do so they are really noisy.

the gigabyte looks better than the esc imo.
it both looks kinda crappy though, cheap plastic crap stuck to a mobo to make it look cool...

charles, unless your board has an uli soutbridge with extra pciE lanes it only has 16 lanes for both cards.

JuanFlaiter

11-01-2005, 09:22 PM

I was just going to buy the Asus P5WDA2 this week. So now what do I get? Do I wait for 975X?

perkam

11-02-2005, 01:31 AM

975X Express chipset Thx for heads up Fugger...
i975 WILL support Presler...but I believe Conroe will need a seperate socket. Not too certain on this.

I was just going to buy the Asus P5WDA2 this week. So now what do I get? Do I wait for 975X?Q1 06...lots of goodies coming from Intel.

Perkam

FUGGER

11-02-2005, 02:18 AM

My reply from ECS:

Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:37 AM
To: FUGGER
Subject: Re: ECS Innovation Combines Intel 955X Chipset and ATi's Crossfire Technology into it New PF22 Extreme Motherboard!
Importance: High

Yes! It's correct!

Both of our PCI-E slots on PF22 are PCI-E x16 not x4.
Some of other competitors are using x4 slot to do the Crossfire instead of pure x16 slot.

This was from a sales person, I have an engineers contact and waiting on their response.

Ubermann

11-02-2005, 02:21 AM

Who use 4X slots ??

FUGGER

11-02-2005, 02:26 AM

On 955x the P5WD2 uses a 4x PCIe slot that passes data across the south bridge.

Cooper

11-02-2005, 07:16 AM

IMO the only good thing about i975 is capability for SLI/CrossFire with two PCI-E 8x.
But it won`t support Conroe until next revision of chipset.

http://hkepc.com/hwdb/i975xfirstlook/975x.jpg

P.S. corrected link (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhkepc.com%2Fhwdb%2Fi975xf irstlook-1.htm&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools)

TrancëJay

11-02-2005, 09:17 AM

2DIMMs/ch?

Sentential

11-02-2005, 09:49 AM

But it won`t support Conroe until next revision of chipset.
Are you absolutly sure about that? I had heard that it would be compatible on most boards including i955X. The only issue about Conroe was VT which only the i975X boards support apparentally

Cooper

11-02-2005, 10:52 PM

Are you absolutly sure about that? I had heard that it would be compatible on most boards including i955X. The only issue about Conroe was VT which only the i975X boards support apparentally

i`m sure about that

http://www.overclockers.ru/images/news/2005/10/14/conroe_01.jpg

And it was posted before (http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76838&highlight=intel+roadmap). So only second revision of i975x probably will support Conroe.
Good thing is that this chipset can support Yonah/Merom cos they are pin-to-pin compatible. And i`ve read somewhere that ECS will make such mobo.

mesyn191

11-06-2005, 08:37 AM

Meh, don't really see the big deal about dual x8 PCIe or for that matter dual x16 PCIe as there isn't any software out now nor will there be for probably a couple of years that makes use of all that extra bandwidth by which time everyone here will probably have already upgraded thier motherboard at least once (probably more like 3 or 4 times :p: )....

cronic

11-06-2005, 05:23 PM

the turbojet looks cool but i'll keep my dfi

Sentential

11-06-2005, 05:30 PM

[XC] moddolicous

11-06-2005, 05:34 PM

Welcome to last week...

Fremont, CA (November 3, 2005) â€“ Elitegroup Computer Systems, Inc., worldâ€™s leading computer hardware and notebook manufacturer, today launched the latest addition to its award-winning Extreme series of motherboards, PF22 Extreme. Taking full advantage of the Intel 955X chipset and ATiâ€™s Crossfire technology, the new PF22 Extreme becomes the worldâ€™s first Intel chipset based motherboard to support two graphics cards in Crossfire mode.

I got this yesterday :stick:

CHIPSET
Intel 955X & ICH7R
MEMORY
Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture
4 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM socket support up to 8 GB, support ECC&Non-ECC DDR2 667/533 1.8V DDR2 SDRAM
Intel MPT (Intel Memory Pipeline Technology)
EXPANSION SLOT
2 x PCI Express x16 slot <-- typo?? confirming.
1 x PCI Express x1 slot
3 x PCI slots

Good thing is CF on Intel is happening. Didnt mean to go off topic.

If ECS is going into overclocking, then the end of the word is coming! J/K, but I think ECS are usually pretty good mobos. Might be worth it to get one.

G H Z

11-08-2005, 02:12 AM

That ECS is the ugliest board I have ever seen.

MaxxxRacer

11-08-2005, 03:00 AM

you know what gigabyte has become..?

they are the scion of the motherboard manufactures. You may wonder why I made that comparison, so I will explain.

Scion is about the only car company in existence that is geared by default for moronic ricers who think that pretty neon lights and shiney things will make his car perform better.

Now look at that gigabyte board. 1000 dollars says it wont ever hold a candle to the DFI nf4... But guess what? It has big glowing fans and what can only be described as plastic turbine engines!

So for anyone who is even considering buying this board, I URGE you to buy 20 of them. Why 20? Well you can strap 19 of them to your Scion sC and maybe, just maybe, those plethora of blue, glowing, turbines might make your car go faster.. If it doesnt, you will still look cool doing it :thumbsup:

So maybe i just hate gigabyte, or they have quite possibly lost their minds? You decide.

speed bump

11-08-2005, 09:14 AM

Well sure it can hold a candle to the DFI NF4 just try putting a LGA cpu and DDR2 in both of them the DFI won't even get started.

Just curious are they going to force me to buy this new 975 chipset or can I buy a 6x1 CPU and use it on a 955x platform?

vapb400

11-08-2005, 12:00 PM

I WANT DFI's 975X! I wonder when it will be released? I hope DFI isn't done with Intel.

elec999

11-08-2005, 07:27 PM

revenant

11-08-2005, 08:53 PM

the turbojet looks cool but i'll keep my dfi

took the words out of my mouth... :)

Kadaj

11-08-2005, 09:09 PM

i`m sure about that

http://www.overclockers.ru/images/news/2005/10/14/conroe_01.jpg

And it was posted before (http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76838&highlight=intel+roadmap). So only second revision of i975x probably will support Conroe.
Good thing is that this chipset can support Yonah/Merom cos they are pin-to-pin compatible. And i`ve read somewhere that ECS will make such mobo.
" platform refresh " is code for 975X with 1.33ghz FSB support, Conroe and Memron use the same FSB arch as Cedar Mill and Presler, just at 1.33ghz speeds, Cedar Mill will be using bi-independent FSB's as well, but my guess is that support for bi independent bus's are already present in 975X A. Conroe and Memron will work in 975X, 955X and 945 for that matter, but not how Intel would want them to work.

IAmSpoli

11-08-2005, 11:09 PM

sweet ass board

umbre_tombetoil

11-10-2005, 05:40 AM

Hum .... giga made very good mobos with high graphic perfs ...
If they put DFI rules in their mobos its a very good news but I definitely don't like their "turbojet" inovation :slapass: :slapass: ...
Want a mobo with giga graphic perfs and DFI rules for vcore and vdimm, that's all I need (and perhaps ATI chipset to avoid cold bug :rolleyes: ) ..

Ubermann

11-11-2005, 05:34 AM

Review at Anandtech (http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2605)

We certainly will be putting this board through additional testing and will be offering CrossFire results along with a surprise or two in the full article.

Giana

11-14-2005, 08:05 AM

Where is ur Avatar from Ubermann ??

Kadaj

11-14-2005, 08:08 AM

Where is ur Avatar from Ubermann ??
I suppose that means you havent seen " The Devils rejects "

Giana

11-14-2005, 08:37 AM

Nope ... dont know this movie ... is it good ? :D

Kadaj

11-14-2005, 08:42 AM

Nope ... dont know this movie ... is it good ? :D
ehh, if you're into the whole insane people killing others in grotesque ways type movies, then yes, I'd be perfect. It's directed by Rob Zombie >.> so I bought the DVD.

Sentential

11-14-2005, 09:12 AM

I might actually be getting a test board from Gigabyte so we will see. If I do you can count on me posting its dissection here.

Kadaj

11-14-2005, 09:19 AM

I might actually be getting a test board from Gigabyte so we will see. If I do you can count on me posting its dissection here.I've become very interested in this board so if you do recieve a sample please do! =)

Sentential

11-14-2005, 09:23 AM

I've become very interested in this board so if you do recieve a sample please do! =)
Ya sure. Supposedly Joyce is back in the office now and would be able to make that happen so we will see.

Sky042

11-26-2005, 03:50 AM

If ECS is going into overclocking, then the end of the word is coming! J/K, but I think ECS are usually pretty good mobos. Might be worth it to get one.
I've got the KN1 Extreme which has that little fan ducting around the PWM area. The fan actually blows quite a bit of air for it's size but it's Not a replaceable fan and it's not ball bearing so it's a matter of time before it fails and I have to replace the whole ECS board in my X2 system.

But it was $99 in august has room for 6 IDE and 6 SATA drives plus dual lan.