Don't you want to MANTA MANTA. (Getting started on manta. Lots of pics)

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UPDATE!

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Manta reminds me of that fanta commercial lol.

For those who havent seen it, this picks up right where my grouper thread left off, its an interesting adventure, and it has some pics of my work area in case you are curious, take a look:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=90426

Anyways, lets get going, this is an ATi engineering sample so keep in mind this board isnt going to retail just like this... It will likely follow the white color scheme of the sapphire grouper board. Having an onboard post code reader is extremely helpful for me so far, i hope this makes it into retail boards someday.



Tons of power going to this board, 8pin 12v connector and 2 molex connectors for the video cards. so power delivery shouldnt hold you back hehe.





Here we have the manta and the grouper next to each other. both board are quite sexy, but imo the blue is better. My board has some nice stoppers on the bottom for bench running, pretty neat, maybe something mobo makers should start shipping in the bundle?



finnally ATi has made it so there is some spacing on the dimms, it wasn't fun having bh-5 running dual channel right next to each other at high volts, so this should make cooling much easier. I took close look and thee traces on manta and grouper are completley different.



Here is the power delivery area, looks the same as with grouper, mosfet are slightly different but its probably a different brand or something. I put some arctic ceramique on them

More coming!