Comments for: Gigabyte's P45 motherboard plug-fest

#29. Posted at 08:57 PM on May 15th 2008

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foodmaniac2003

Is it legal to buy parts from other countries and bring them back to the US? That Guang Hua place is rather enticing...

#29, http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/newsroom/publications/tr... : Usacomp2k3 (#32) «

#32, That pdf file says for commercial purposes, I think the g... : JokerCPoC (#39) «

#39, Ah yes, you are correct. My bad. : Usacomp2k3 (#40) «

#40, Another good question is if it would work. I'm not ... : Valhalla926 (#41) «

#41, It would work. A videocard you buy from asia use... : moose17145 (#42) «

#2. Posted at 12:06 AM on May 15th 2008

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bdwilcox

I could be wrong, but it looks like even the high-end boards sport a floppy and IDE port. If that's an IDE port, is it controlled by the Intel south-bridge or by an external chip like on a P35 board? I can never understand why Intel dropped native IDE from the P35's south-bridge considering even Intel-branded P35 motherboards sport an IDE port and add-on controller chip. Personally, I'd rather have the IDE port controlled by the south bridge or have no IDE port at all.

#2, IDE is through an external chip. The JMicron controller, act... : Dissonance (#5) «

#5, Someone needs to make a sweet little PCI card with all th... : DrDillyBar (#31) «

#5, I shudder at the thought of messing with Jmicron's pos ID... : gtoulouzas (#36) «

#36, The Jmicron IDE controllers I've seen on recent boards... : crazybus (#37) «

#37, Even while overclocked? Now all We need is a return ... : JokerCPoC (#38) «

#16. Posted at 08:34 AM on May 15th 2008

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Thresher

What a great article.

I would love to see more pictures of Taiwan.

#16, http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=48580&start... : tesmar (#35) «

#3. Posted at 12:22 AM on May 15th 2008, Edited at 12:26 AM on May 15th 2008

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albundy

Wow. look at all that cr@p made in China! LOL!

Whacha suppose to do with FDD, IDE, PS/2, and those extra lan ports these days, besides wasting system resources...

#3, Actually you'll have a hard time finding "made in China" cra... : spuppy (#6) «

#3, My PS/2 keyboards and mice from the last century still work ... : crabjokeman (#8) «

#8, It's not even a bad thing. I'm a fan of PS/2 keyboards be... : Meadows (#34) «

#3, You, sir, win the "Bigoted Post of the Thread" award. : Mourmain (#12) «

#33. Posted at 07:38 PM on May 16th 2008

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ish718

Dang, where can I find shops like this in Newyork city?lol...

#7. Posted at 01:40 AM on May 15th 2008

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ssidbroadcast

Man, I love the East.

#7, Yeah, setups like Guang Hua are quite common in Asia, like i... : Voldenuit (#9) «

#9, Yeah I've been to Japan and Korea, and it's just a nice c... : ssidbroadcast (#10) «

#9, ...and South America : Usacomp2k3 (#24) «

#9, I live in Hong Kong, and in spite of the sprawling comput... : Anomymous Gerbil (#30) «

#4. Posted at 12:23 AM on May 15th 2008

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Forge

I want the ten SATA ports, but I don't want semi-hardware RAID1.

I would like a few of those SI chips on a PCIe card, though. A JMB363 with two SIs, and you can set the SIs for 0 or 1, and the JMB363 however you like.....
MMmmmm tasty.

#4, The stupid amount of SATA ports glued onto the P45 is probab... : Kurotetsu (#13) «

#4, Why do you call it "semi-hardware" RAID? The SiI5723 looks l... : yehuda (#21) «

#21, Most conumer RAID controllers are "hybrid" controllers. A... : evermore (#25) «

#21, Yes, and it's slaved to the JMB363, which is very much fa... : Forge (#28) «

#27. Posted at 03:36 PM on May 15th 2008

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evermore

The IDT bridge chip seems kind of pointless. Six PCIe lanes would have allowed for the 4 Gigabit ports and 2 x1 chips, which is all anybody expects at this point given the dearth of PCIe cards (and what would one need to add to this board?). Then you've got only 4 lanes of bandwidth to the IDT chip to serve those Gigabit chips and 2 x4 slots.

Cosmetic heatsinks? Why? Leave those off and take 2 dollars off the price tag for cripe's sake.

I imagine there are easier/better ways to have done that multi-drive RAID thing. I wonder what the performance would actually be like if you made a RAID0 of the two RAID1 arrays (or vice versa).

#22. Posted at 01:02 PM on May 15th 2008

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StashTheVampede

Any news on boards with EFI?

#22, Gigabyte also has interest in implementing the Extensible Fi... : eitje (#23) «

#23, that's a strange conclusion to draw - Vista SP1 supports ... : derFunkenstein (#26) «

#20. Posted at 11:44 AM on May 15th 2008

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yehuda

By all means tell them to ditch the DES app and relocate the phase controller module in BIOS.

#19. Posted at 10:40 AM on May 15th 2008

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eitje

What kind of PSUs did they have you using?

What did the backport clusters look like on the other boards?

Will there be OSX/Linux ports for the DES power-saving app?

#18. Posted at 10:33 AM on May 15th 2008

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FroBozz_Inc

What is that Gigabyte staffer "taking a sip" of exactly in that dry-ice rig?

#11. Posted at 03:39 AM on May 15th 2008

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Valhalla926

The Guang Hua market nearly made my head explode. It's like a Toys R Us.

#11, Akihabara in Japan is like that too.... The entire town is l... : CB5000 (#17) «

#14. Posted at 08:02 AM on May 15th 2008

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axeman

My sister is in taiwan right now, too bad she's not interested in computer parts. :D

#14, send her a shopping list, man! tell her to buy a new suitcas... : eitje (#15) «

#1. Posted at 11:38 PM on May 14th 2008, Edited at 11:51 PM on May 14th 2008

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MadManOriginal

'plug-fest' plus that building picture makes me think bad things :(

Anand has a little limited preview of an Asus P45. They look like nice enough boards but no major leaps ver x38/x48 or even P35 so probably no reason for most people to get one. The only people I see buying them are perpetual upgraders though that would be a waste and they should already have an x38/x48, new builds, and someone looking for an 8x/8x Crossfire rig without ponying up for an x38 though there are some inexpensive x38 boards out there.