Motherboards in 2002: Preview from Comdex

Gigabyte - The Real Surprise

Quite frankly, before visiting the Gigabyte booth we thought we had seen everything there was to show from motherboard manufacturers. And if we hadn't looked at one area of their suite in the illustrious Bellagio resort then we wouldn't have seen the most interesting motherboards of the entire show.

Of course Gigabyte had the usual; an array of Pentium 4 motherboards including a DDR 845 solution as well as a SiS 645 based motherboard (see below).

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Gigabyte is still working on their nForce board - the GA-7NTX - but there is a chance that it wont be ready before the end of the year.

They also showed their KT266A board, the GA-7VTXH, which we expect to receive very soon for our roundup.

Gigabyte also manufactures NVIDIA video cards including those using the GeForce3 Ti500 and Ti200.

We were able to see the first 845 motherboard designed for a 1U chassis, the GA-8IDXR. It has special designed angled DIMM slots. It is also equipped with on-board SCSI and ATI Rage XL video.

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We also saw Gigabyte's AMD 760MPX solution, the GA-7DPXDW. The motherboard boasts IDE RAID as its differentiating feature