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Chinese white boxers snap up Gigabyte boards
CHINESE WHITE BOX vendors are purportedly bombarding Gigabyte with orders for its netbook motherboards according to gossipy Taiwanese component suppliers.
According to Dodgytimes, Gigabyte reckons the white-box netbook market has "great potential for further development," but hasn't confirmed whether or not it's flogging netbook motherboards to Chinese white box vendors.
Selling motherboards to the white box crowd could mean Gigabyte plans to start standardising motherboards for not only netbooks, but also notebooks, as the firm also lurches towards releasing its own CULV-based notebook as early as June.
In related Gigabyte news, PC Perspective's editor, Steve Grever, recently caught sight of the firm's new P55 chipset based motherboard for 'coming soon' Intel Core i5 processors.
Courtesy of PC Perspective
Granted, Grever notes the new mainboards are hardly groundbreaking, but a couple of nuances from Gigabyte's previous offerings include the fact the board has just four DDR3 memory slots (Core i5 only has a dual channel memory controller) and sports a smaller LGA1136 processor socket than the LGA1366 for Core i7.
Pictures of the board appear to show it sporting 10 SATA ports and three PCI Express x16 slots. µ
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Intel will eventually drive me crazy with all the diferent sockets and chipsets......I think I need a beer.
Thats another new pin-out...
is intel trying to have the highest possible number of different sockets by anybody entered into the guiness book of world records ??
I used two different (chipsets) Gigabyte boards on the last two gaming rigs I built, one for me and one for a friend. Both worked flawlessly without a hitch, good documentation too. I would recommend Gigabyte anyday.
You should put in an explanation as to why there are different sockets.
Then again, little brats wouldn't care if socket 1156 motherboards cost LESS from having LESS LAYERS, because their parents are the ones paying.
I think little brats have more money than brains and would buy socket 1156 only to be out done by the friend with an x58 board on a benchmark. In turn they would buy an x58 and cpu one speed bin higher than the friends and claim victory.
I guess something had to be done because 400$ for a motherboard isnt right. Why the more layers when the memory controller is on board is beyond me, must be the third 16x pci-e slot you'll never use (unless your a spoiled brat with more money than brains), or its future proof compared to socket 1156.
hahahahahahahaha lol hahaha future proof hahahahaha lol hahaha intel!