My mobo is seating on the box it came inOriginally Posted by chew*
Then, if i used a case it would still suck for me as i don't like to connect stuff on the front if it requires a cable, Murphy's law says you will accidentally hook the cable and take part in a hardware mess
This is a nice mobo tho'.
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i could explain the external-sata design issue,
why GIGABYTE use the extendted sata not use a "e-sata"
first, the sata goes from SB, if you pull it to i/o panel, it goes a long way
and the singal from internal pcb is not that clear, also will reduce singnal quality, and affect other componets ( from lab test max length from e-sata only 1.5M). and even you use a "e-sata" you need to prepare a "external-power cable" for your device, i can't see anything good here.( maybe it has good looking?)
and like GBT's way, sata goes from SB, then use a extension, the signal
is directly from SB and goes to extension sata, im sure the extension cable quality is very good,you can use 2M length sata connect to the extension still work well, also you have a power on the extension,
No big deal anyway, if it performs and is priced correctly (which is often the case here for Gigabyte mobos) i would consider buying iti could explain the external-sata design issue,
why GIGABYTE use the extendted sata not use a "e-sata"
first, the sata goes from SB, if you pull it to i/o panel, it goes a long way
and the singal from internal pcb is not that clear, also will reduce singnal quality, and affect other componets ( from lab test max length from e-sata only 1.5M). and even you use a "e-sata" you need to prepare a "external-power cable" for your device, i can't see anything good here.( maybe it has good looking?)
and like GBT's way, sata goes from SB, then use a extension, the signal
is directly from SB and goes to extension sata, im sure the extension cable quality is very good,you can use 2M length sata connect to the extension still work well, also you have a power on the extension,
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Yes, there are still people with IDE and pci devices, but, most mobo manufacturers release so many different models it woudn't really matter if atleast one of them would come without them.
Last edited by naokaji; 01-12-2009 at 03:04 PM.
To be clear about PWM section, it is 8+2 phases for CPU/IMC.
Rest as stated by Caveman!
Power section is one of the strong points of GBT top end boards. My DQ6 uses same design and there is no way of any voltage fluctuation up to 1.88V!
Also if BIOS will be similar to what we have on DQ6 then max CPU vCore will be 2.05V
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8+2 phase
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Hehe that reminds me of the funny discussion in another thread. I guess everything changed now
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not sure I follow you? are you referring to the 790FX-DQ6 thread? not sure what would change.Hehe that reminds me of the funny discussion in another thread. I guess everything changed now
EDIT: NM I remember what your talking about now.
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As a thread about any computer related subject has its length approach infinity, the likelihood and inevitability of a poorly constructed AMD vs. Intel fight also exponentially increases.
Likewise, the frequency of a car pseudoanalogy to explain a technical concept increases with thread length. This will make many people chuckle, as computer people are rarely knowledgeable about vehicular mechanics.
When confronted with a post that is contrary to what a poster likes, believes, or most often wants to be correct, the poster will pick out only minor details that are largely irrelevant in an attempt to shut out the conflicting idea. The core of the post will be left alone since it isn't easy to contradict what the person is actually saying.
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pretty hard to fault
looks great
I believe he's refering to the i7 discussion on how having a ton of phases is essentially useless and not needed.
In truth it's not if your not overclocking and the power draw isn't immense.
Nice looking board but i would not get it .It needs more PCIe slots 2 just don't get the job done .For me 3 is the min. and 4 is better .
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I can hazard a guess that it is a design for airflow coming from the cpu cooler (stock coolers exhaust radially around the socket area). Whether is is more effective than un-capped i'll leave that up to the designers.
even RAM need individual power supply
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Only if it would have 2 free PCI slots when 2 double hight gfx card are in place.
FINALLY!!! Now maybe some of the idiot fanbois will admit that theirty current mobos really do look like they are from 2002. If this had a clear cmos button on the back I'd pick this thing up, really surprised it doesn't.
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Clear CMOS button on back is a bad idea IMO. Bump it, oh crap...FINALLY!!! Now maybe some of the idiot fanbois will admit that their
Maybe a jumper or something, my DFI 790FX-M2RS had that but it was flush with the IO shield so you couldn't really use it too easily anyway
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The PWM controller is a chip that supports 6 phases at max so there's no way this thing has 8 real CPU phases. Thus, it is actually 4 phases with parallel inductors per phase, it doesn't seem there would be doubled FETs per phase as I think the PWM area is too small.
These current "banana" mobos allow OC'ing Deneb way over 6GHz so I'm not sure what you're foaming about.Every board in the last 15 year, since SDR-SDRAM became obsolete has had dedicated power supply for RAM.
Last edited by largon; 01-12-2009 at 11:40 PM.
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Thats a nice looking board coming from GB! I wont miss looking at that damn orange any time soon.
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Nice board, The colors scheme is better for the eye, then the old rainbow color one.
Spark I have it on my asus, its inset a little has an even ridge that the button sits in, very hard to hit it by accident. Of course with the asus you hardly ever need it becasue if you get a failed OC it just loads defaults anyway on the next boot.....Hey, I still use a PCI sound card
Clear CMOS button on back is a bad idea IMO. Bump it, oh crap...
Maybe a jumper or something, my DFI 790FX-M2RS had that but it was flush with the IO shield so you couldn't really use it too easily anyway
Would be a nice addition, I'm just happy they added power and reset.
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CLR Cmos jumper is still difficult to reach if there is some monster GFX card... One thing I hate in my DS4H.
Any update on pricing? Has anyone see it around in stores ?
The power/reset button placement seems bad to me... Looks like some stout hardware otherwise!
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Does this board support the following cpu?
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...AMD-_-19103471
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