Gigabyte was one of the first manufacturers to release a retail board for the Intel 955X Express chipset. The GA-8I955X Royal was a high-end product that pimped a rich feature set with the latest technologies available. It was also the very first Intel 955X Express based motherboard to use Realtek's Dolby Master Studio certified HD Audio chip, bringing home theater standards into the PC. Since then, Intel's consumer mainstream chipset, the 945P Express was launched and motherboards began to appear, slowly replacing the venerable Grantsdale as the mid-level chipset of choice. Though Gigabyte is no longer among the first, their latest GA-8I945P Dual Graphic motherboard was still able to leave its mark. Read on about this motherboard over at HardwareZone



Link: Hardware Zone