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Thanks for the work you put in on this. I certainly hope they address this situation properly and don't try to cut corners on a $179 motherboard. I hadn't checked this thread for about a week so when I came back and saw this I was really disappointed having waited so long for this board. Personally, I will not spend 180 bucks on something for the sake of white PCB and a new chipset if the quality blows.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigtoe
Thanks again.
Irrespective of how the retail board turns out, i think we all owe a huge thankyou to bigtoe for all his work on this project, he got ATI to produce a great board with the reference design, and i think it is a credit to him.
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Here, Here!! yes you did a great job and you don't have to answer for their mistakes. by the way why is it that there is no sapphire rep showing any interest in this thread? huh sapphire :stick: ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Master_G
the forum is broken... the archives seem to be non-existant. i could only post in the russian section. as a long time sapphire customer i'm very dissapointed at this development.Quote:
Originally Posted by IRQ Conflict
Looks to me that Sapphire have shot themselves in the foot (or maybe even in the head :rolleyes: )
What a sad, sad waste of what could have been a great product that would have set Sappire up well and truly on the road to even more success :slap:
errr
would the Abit AT8 be your suprise, bigtoe?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25983
Its not Abit, I will ask if i can release more info soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by don_vercetti
Yes, I know, I posted there on the weekend, then they nuked the entire site. some of the old mods and myself have been using the german forum for our banter though ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by loonym
Even thier forum mods were not warned about this, some lost 2000+ posts and about 3 years worth of tech support flushed down the toilet :(
oh well it's notQuote:
Originally Posted by don_vercetti
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Not the DFI LANPARTY UT RDX200 CF-DR then uh? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bigtoe
so not abit, not dfi. And of course, not sapphire. Of the decent manu's, that leaves MSI and Asus tbh. Unless we have a suprise. Hope you can release some info soon!
That leaves EPoX, who is usually late with boards, Soltek, Jetyway, etc, all third tier.....except for gigabyte...haven't heard much from them...
as long as they support crossfire and have great caps...
and have it here in 27 days with the R520
I will pay what they ask for...
gigabyte aren't exactly legends for there oc'ing mobos though. I doubt they would get a guy like bigtoe involved.
Then again, i could be wrong.
just noticed something since i was on vacation also......on Bigtoes pics the ram (presumed in DC) is in slots 1 and 2 like on k8n neo2 s........Bigtoe since you helped them wouldnt have been better to have them spread like in slots 1 n 3 for better cooling?
Well their s754 NF3's were the second-best clocking boards at the time. And they didnt kill the memorycontrollers. The NF4 non-sli did okay, but vcore was low, and there was no mod.
So they are ok. But ugly :P
Anyway, i don't think it is coming from anyone we expect it from. None of these makers would use a referenceboard, i think. Could be another graphics-company.
Edit: That would be Gigabyte..
i would bet on MSI.....Epox is acctualy pretty fast with their mobos, out of the main companies Abit is the slowest
as much as i agree, this is the attitude that is fueling $700 vid cardsQuote:
Originally Posted by nn_step
as for who the mystery co is...i just think that Tony wouldnt make a post about it if it wernt GOOD...i mean he didnt make a post about DFI or Abit making them so....(not that these arnt "good" companies :rolleyes: )
Im sworn to secrecy till friday, even then they may make me stay quiet and it will probably be released while im on holiday...but for now look for a post around 7PM GMT on this forum.
Next up we should see boards in October, there is some final tweakage to be done, the board however is based real close on the crossfire reference i have shown you here and will run reference bios files, this should mean ALL the feature on the reference will be on the final board.
The board will be colored like you have not seen before (all being well and going to plan)
so you gamers with windows are going to love this ;)
Thats all i can leak for now, stay tuned ;)
I bet that its Gigabyte - wouldn't suprise me. Personally I believe they make good boards. I really hope its them.
-k0nsl
yeah.. gigabyte boards arent too shabby, but are usually lacking in the overall oc department.... and voltage availabilitys... :stick:Quote:
Originally Posted by k0nsl
Can't wait.. I'm doubting AsUs would be in on something like this :( Their boards are usually quite nice..
However, since it will be basicly using reference bios files.... no matter who makes it, it should perform excellently... :slobber:
sweet, i cant wait to have an ocz motherboard.
He's probably talking about Asus. OCZ already said they are not making motherboards. ;) The waiting game continues :rolleyes:
However, remember those latency arguments about using the further slots?Quote:
Originally Posted by Millyons
Ram doesnt get that hot that the closeness shouldnt be that much of an issue. :)
I'll bet it's Intel. They make GREAT boards.