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Very nice looking board, but i want a board with no FDD or IDE
It's nice that they made PCI-E 4x slot open-ended, but it seems that NB cooler pushpin would obstruct any cards longer than 4x.
Cut the top of the pushpin off? Anyways--I like the board. What's the second controller for SATA (the white ports)? IT looks like a very nice board otherwise: I don't have THAT much a care about colors of the boards--I don't like windows on my cases, as I prefer large fans there instead.
Looks better than ever :)
If the orange slots were black It would have been truly beautiful imo.
Now that's a good looking board! Congrats Gigabyte for making something beautiful, now I hope it clocks these Nehalems well :up:
That's going to be TOUGH to insulate though.
Like...really hard...
^^ +1Quote:
Originally Posted by GAR
I think they just tried to make their boards look like toys, don't think they were gay :down:Quote:
Originally Posted by eric66
:shakes:FDD and IDE on a X58 chipset
WHY?
who uses a floppy these days? flashing from usb is the go now.
IDE, pffft!
if you can't afford today's cheap sata drives
then you can't afford this mobo, a nehalem and 3 sticks of ddr3
WHY oh why?!?:shrug:
nice colours and i like the orange
usb's would look nicer, same orange or the light blue
i'll be taking the extreme or the DQ6
p.s. anyone got a mod to make the ram slots pink again? :rofl:
i think i just got a hard on
that is a sweet looking mamma right there
come to daddy come to daddy hahahah
we are going to have huge problems insulating these and other nehalem boards....can we at least have a clean gap around the CPU socket....even if just but 4mm or whatever
I like the new colour scheme, though I'd like some bright green slots :D
Very nice looking but I agree, kill those orange slots.
Someone suggested gray and blue and gray go well together.
The only other thing I'd suggest is pull those plates off that say Gigabyte as I'm old school and not happy unless I can screw a small fan in for cooling.
That doesn't look pink to me at all... a salmon color more weighted toward orange... but then again, I have not calibrated this monitor.Quote:
Originally Posted by hicookie
There's grey on that sink so why didn't they just go with grey instead of orange? It would have officially been a Dodger board :clap: Agree on ditching FD and IDE:up:
I see they finally turned the SATA ports 90 degreed which is a very nice addition, just wished they would have started this trend earlier with the P45's. Other than that, I like the new color scheme, looks great! But why keep IDE??
Well look on the bright side, nehalem won't need to go anyhwere nearly as cold as DI/LN2 to pull out good clocks heh ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22
My DVD drive is still IDE and I bought it this year. Can't really justify buying a new DVD drive just for the sake of "Oh yeah, it's IDE".
Go Gigabyte, keep the IDE! :p:
Great looking board. But don't forget to keep DPC Latency below 10µs (all the time). Hope you learned from your P35, X38, X48 boards.
well a brand new sata dvd drive costs $35Quote:
Originally Posted by inCore
your gonna spend over $1000 for this new setup and you can't justify the new dvd drive?!?
No Gigabyte listen to me, drop the IDE! :p:
I'm one of those people who think Floppy and IDE connectors need to go drink bleach and die. I also think the same thing of PCI slots (not PCIe, but PCI), but I think less people agree with me on that one :p:
Eller
when UD3/4/5 dq6/extreme p45 mobos? :D
I think the FDD is at least still required. Other than that, they probably have the IDE though whatever the SATA controller they will be using (those 4 SATA slots--the "odd ones" :p:). That's fine with me. Not everyone will have that type of money, though yes many will. Some of us want the best & cheapest possible--our budget may be enough for a Nehalem setup, but it may not be enough to replace older IDE drives, ever optical drive we own, and PCI TV cards, sound cards, NICs, &c. And some of us don't want to--if I owned that much already, I'd prefer to bring it to the machine that would use it most. I use a floppy drive (combined cleverly with a memory card reader) and an 80GB IDE hard drive, in addition to my SATA DVD burner and 320GB SATA hard drive. Some of those components WILL be transferred to another computer. I have another 8.4GB hard drive that will be fine for Server 2003 or something, and this 80GB hard drive will be fine for Server 2008. Of course, once I build those rigs. :p: (Sossaman and Nehalem 2P?)
Wow, this board's colour scheme is second only to DFI's luminous green and black.
Gigabyte has finally grown-up to a teenager. Now the orange-slots need to go and they're finally adult ;)
Took some time though :)