Gigabyte's server plans revealed

Gigabyte, one of Taiwan's top 10 motherboard companies, has designs to scoop up a fair share of these markets, the roadmaps we saw revealed.

INTEL
One ATX board Gigabyte will launch, called the 8IDXR, will use a single Northwood processor, using the Intel Brookdale chipset, have three slots supporting up to 3GB of PC-133 memory, four PCI slots, Intel LAN support, IPMI and ZCR. This board will be available in October.

Early next year, Gigabyte will produce a dual Prestonia processor E-ATX board, the 8IPXDR, using the Plumas chipset, and supporting up to 12GB of memory on six DDR slots, have both PCI-X and Infiniband slots, use the Adaptec 7902 Ultra-320, and have a Gigabit Ethernet controller.

Gigabyte's 8IAXW ATX board will again have a single Northwood processor, use the Intel "Placer" chipset, support up to four GB of memory, have two PCI-64 and two PCI 32 slots, integrated LAN and IDE Raid controllers, use on AGP 8X, and have AGP Pro support. That board is slated for May next year.

A Gigabyte mobo using the Micron Copperhead chipset and supporting dual Tualatins will appear in October. The 6MXDR, with E-ATX form factor, will support up to 4GB memory, and have ATI VGA.

In March next year, we will see the 8EXDR, using dual "Prestonia" processors, Serverworks GC-LE chipset, 16GB of memory supported, and integrated Gigabit Ethernet.

AMD
A mobo for the dual Athlon or Duron MP processors and called the 7DPXDW, an ATX unit, will launch in October.

It will use the AMD 760MP chipset, support up to 4GB of memory, include two PCI-64 and two PCI-32 slots, have PDC 267 RAID 0, 1, and 0+1, have one AGP Pro slot, and Intel 82559 LAN capabilities.