Computex Coverage -BTX A64; G70; Crossfire;SATA ram disks; Dual GPU graph card + more

[Joe]

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here is a sok 939 BTX Mobo

hands up if u have a [font=&quot]compatible[/font] case?? -- BTX is too expensive for the manufacturers of cases and Motherboards to retool their factories for especially considering it is a distraction form the main problem HIGH CPU HEAT/POWER CONSUMPTION

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here is the G70 -- the G70 boards are all single slot mayb NVidia have sorted out the power hungry graphics cards problem

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Nvidia hope to drop the price of the NF4 - sli chipset to around $40 to combat ATis Multi-GPU solution and hopefully produce cheap SLi boards

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Gigabyte and ASUS show off Dual GPU single PCIE cards

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Gigabyte reveal PCI RAM/Sata drive

this is really interesting gigabyte have basically attached a SATA to DDR translator on a PCI board <for power> and attached a battery to the board to allow the RAM to act as a Super Quick SATA Drive that is non volatile -- this is like as even old DDR333 ram u may have lyin round will b quick nuff for SATAII but on this board u are limited to DDR 200 as it is SATA 1

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ECS have a Pentium and Athlon 64 combo Motherboard (not @ same time) that is @ base a 775 board but has a pink header slot that allows addition of a 754/939 processor on a PCB

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and finally ATI multi GPU 'crossfire' technology

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2431

 

[balilu]

i read this and i liked most the ram disks the are quite a good idea and will be kinda fast compared to normal hdd's. and it will be faster when used on pci-x because it is more faster than common pci.

 

[Dav0s]

but for the ram discs they wont be able to retain data when the comp is turned off..will they??

 

[NickS]

a small cmos-type battery, or they cld be used for ULTRA FAST page files lol

 

[Joe]

a small cmos-type battery, or they cld be used for ULTRA FAST page files lol

no they do not use cmos batteries it uses a 9v square batt!!. they do not loose data due to this batt and the pci connection doesnt matter it uses an onboard sata tranlator ot convert sata on the ram it uses PCI only for power not for transfer it uses SATA for transfer

 

[Dav0s]

hmm so this will also be portable memory?? wait no because it would lose power and lose data. doh this seems pretty pointless to me, apart from ultra fast storage.

 

[Joe]

hmm so this will also be portable memory?? wait no because it would lose power and lose data. doh this seems pretty pointless to me, apart from ultra fast storage.

its normal DDr hooked to a SATA interface with a battery to keep the data whe nthe comp is turned off it will fully use the speed SATA provides