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**AACDIRECT** · 10-07-2005, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Grayskull

By expensive I do mean cost. The electronic switches are expensive compared to a terminator card.

By reduced margin, I mean that the current electronic switches out there are passive, not active devices. This means that any signal that passes through them will have some attenuation and that always reduces margin on the interface.

All dual slot reference boards from ATI are black (Halibut). All single slot boards (Grouper) are white. Connector and heatsink colors have varied over the lifetime of the boards.

Thanks for the information. Mine is the most beautiful one.....

MY PRECIOUS.....

On the terminator. Just to make sure I am understanding correctly. The terminator produces less single loss Vs a Electronic switch. So for overclocking/performance the terminator could be consider the best solution? If so is anyone you know planning on offering a board that has the terminator?

Also what does the four LEDs above the CPU socket show? I assume they are not there just to be pretty....AKA Fatal1ty mobos. On mine only two are lit during normal use. (BTW the LED's for SATA and PATA are a nice touch too.)

Again thanks for the info. Very interesting to learn why certain things are done at the design level.

**Grayskull** · 10-07-2005, 01:02 PM

DFI is the only vendor that I am aware of that is using the terminator scheme on the CF-BT board. Others may as well, but I'm not aware of it.

There's actually 5 LEDs... or there should be 5

They represent the VID code of the cpu power delivery system. These probably won't make it into production as they are not really needed. But I guess we'll just have to see.

Originally Posted by AACDIRECT

Thanks for the information. Mine is the most beautiful one.....

MY PRECIOUS.....

On the terminator. Just to make sure I am understanding correctly. The terminator produces less single loss Vs a Electronic switch. So for overclocking/performance the terminator could be consider the best solution? If so is anyone you know planning on offering a board that has the terminator?

Also what does the four LEDs above the CPU socket show? I assume they are not there just to be pretty....AKA Fatal1ty mobos. On mine only two are lit during normal use. (BTW the LED's for SATA and PATA are a nice touch too.)

Again thanks for the info. Very interesting to learn why certain things are done at the design level.

**AACDIRECT** · 10-07-2005, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by Grayskull

DFI is the only vendor that I am aware of that is using the terminator scheme on the CF-BT board. Others may as well, but I'm not aware of it.

There's actually 5 LEDs... or there should be 5

They represent the VID code of the cpu power delivery system. These probably won't make it into production as they are not really needed. But I guess we'll just have to see.

LOL If I could count

..... so what does off,off,on,on,off mean?

Guess we got a little off topic on this post..... For those waiting on the DFI CF-BT there was some info that I had not personally heard yet. Again thanks for the info Grayskull.