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Nelis |
It would have been nice if board makers would axe the dual and now quad ethernet and give more damn USB ports. My current board has 6 on the back, all filled and two cords I have to swap in and out...
That board appears to only have 4 on the back.. I'll pass on that...  |
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tempeteduson |
I count ten different colors on that PCB. Good god!
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moose17145 |
Holy crap! Went a little crazy with the quad theme much. I don't know if anyone else actually bothered to read the spec sheet on this thing, but it has 4 eSATA, 12 phase power system (which they of course call Quad-Triple Phase power delivery.. blah blah blah), and Quad BIOS. You could completely screw up a bios flash 3 times before your screwed! So yea, i think "overkill" is this board's middle name... last name... and first name. The four eSATA has me worried though, makes me wonder if those are not USB ports im seeing in the picture. If they arean't then that's a big "no no" on Gigabytes part.
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Kharnellius |
I'm curious how many people would get even CLOSE to useing 10 sata connections!
Doesn't seem to be a bit overkill? |
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TheDVDMan |
QUAD Gigabit networking!?! Come on, how about something actually USEFUL.
How many people actually even use dual networking? |
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Ryu Connor |
You realize that this is an ethusisat board not a server board?
You realize that the modern enthusiast is increasingly becoming more and more involved in media management. From music to videos. And that management has spawned things like HTPCs and odd ball items like network controlled MP3 players. http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46854 It needs not be a "server" board for a company to be used in a server role. Servers exist outside the business world now. Welcome to 2007, nice of you to join us. |
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Flying Fox |
All that copper is sexy!
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Proesterchen |
It's colourful, I give them that!
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Beomagi |
The evga board has signal problems with sata some users experience. As a result, a lot of people are looking at asus. asus's board is kinda pricey though - $400 so this may be a "sweet deal" for those wanting high end sli.
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alex666 |
Leave it to gigabyte to come up with something original. They are not afraid to innovate. I mean, that's what it's all about. Kudos to them. It'll be interesting to get a review of this sucker.
And I don't own any gigabyte products except for a great hsf. |
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flip-mode |
HaHa - 10 Savvio 15K drives in RAID-1000.
Yay for the PCI slot abundance. Yay for the Alaskan Oil Pipeline heat transmission pipeline system RollsEyes at SLI |
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Dposcorp |
Not bad, but at what price?
The eVga board is like $250 i think, so what will this run, $300? |
How many people actually even use dual networking?
Well, not quite quad. Looks like it load balanced them into two seperate 2Gbps connections.
Not sure how good the software they bundle with it is, but that's not totally worthless. You could make a pretty decent file server around that thing.
I know alot of people that like to keep images of their games across the network and mount them remotely.
Add into that the average size of a patch or map pack these days and really that's not all that impractical. I will concede it's probably overkill though.