FragTek
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At CeBit Albatron unveiled it's newest creation, the PX975X motherboard featuring the new Intel 975X chipset designed for use with Conroe/Yonah processors.
The new motherboard hosts a plethora of goodies not found on other motherboards and promises to be a cream of the crop overclocking platform. Where to start is kind of hard to tell you the truth as it has a lot of very intuitive and intriguing features.
The board features many great features found on other current motherboards such as dual PCI-E x16 slots for CrossFire, alternating DDR2 slots for proper RAM ventilation, and a pair of PCI slots (I would have preferred to see one more, but 2 is a start, much better than 1 which becomes unusable the second you populate the bottom PCI-E x16 slot). As you can see in above picture the board features an industry-first 10 SATA2 ports, that's a lot of room for a lot of hard drives, or even a lot of mirrored space! Also if you look closely you'll see 2 x ATX connectors. Albatron hasn't stated the official use for this inclusion yet but guesses are that it's to use 2 x PSU's to power the system seeing as how todays new dual core / dual gpu computers are requiring 600+ watts of power. Also I'll have you notice that the board is completely outfitted with top quality Japanese capacitators, nothing cheaped out on this board (though this is a pre-production board, the caps could change for the release but it would be VERY nice to see the same high quality caps used on the production model).
One of the greatest features of this board is its digital clock-generator by Timelab. This inclusion gives a standard P4 3.4ghz processor on aircooling to be overclocked to a staggering 4.25ghz vs. 3.91ghz found on a typical clock-generator based motherboard. Now just think about that improvement when under some supercooling!
Did someone say 7 phase power? Yup! This board has 7 phases, sheesh! I would imagine this board supplies some clean constant power, also allowing for more headroom in the overclocking department (DFI should take some notes here).
Now I've never been a huge Foxconn / Albatron fan, but you can bet your ***** that if this is the kind of board we can be expecting from them in the future I'll be right there with it! This board truely looks amazing, I can't wait to see how it performs once released (and at what cost it will be released at).
If you'd like to read the whole article @ X-Bit labs, click here.
The new motherboard hosts a plethora of goodies not found on other motherboards and promises to be a cream of the crop overclocking platform. Where to start is kind of hard to tell you the truth as it has a lot of very intuitive and intriguing features.
The board features many great features found on other current motherboards such as dual PCI-E x16 slots for CrossFire, alternating DDR2 slots for proper RAM ventilation, and a pair of PCI slots (I would have preferred to see one more, but 2 is a start, much better than 1 which becomes unusable the second you populate the bottom PCI-E x16 slot). As you can see in above picture the board features an industry-first 10 SATA2 ports, that's a lot of room for a lot of hard drives, or even a lot of mirrored space! Also if you look closely you'll see 2 x ATX connectors. Albatron hasn't stated the official use for this inclusion yet but guesses are that it's to use 2 x PSU's to power the system seeing as how todays new dual core / dual gpu computers are requiring 600+ watts of power. Also I'll have you notice that the board is completely outfitted with top quality Japanese capacitators, nothing cheaped out on this board (though this is a pre-production board, the caps could change for the release but it would be VERY nice to see the same high quality caps used on the production model).
One of the greatest features of this board is its digital clock-generator by Timelab. This inclusion gives a standard P4 3.4ghz processor on aircooling to be overclocked to a staggering 4.25ghz vs. 3.91ghz found on a typical clock-generator based motherboard. Now just think about that improvement when under some supercooling!
Did someone say 7 phase power? Yup! This board has 7 phases, sheesh! I would imagine this board supplies some clean constant power, also allowing for more headroom in the overclocking department (DFI should take some notes here).
Now I've never been a huge Foxconn / Albatron fan, but you can bet your ***** that if this is the kind of board we can be expecting from them in the future I'll be right there with it! This board truely looks amazing, I can't wait to see how it performs once released (and at what cost it will be released at).
If you'd like to read the whole article @ X-Bit labs, click here.
But geez, who uses 10 hard drives?!?!?! 
