Asus P5W DH Deluxe, 975X Core 2 Duo Ready Motherboard Review
Posted on 2006-08-24 23:59:14 by LSDsmurfSix to nine months prior to the launch of Intel's Core 2 Duo product line, if you polled the average HotHardware.com reader, regarding their thoughts on an Intel 975X based motherboard, you might well have gotten a luke-warm reception. Back then AMD's dual core Athlon 64 X2 and FX offerings were in full stride and NVIDIA's nForce 4 chipset found its way into many high-end Desktop systems. On the contrary, no one would argue that Intel's 975X chipset was not without its own merits for die-hard Intel customers.
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| Re: Asus P5W DH Deluxe, 975X Core 2 Duo Ready Motherboard by Anonymous on Friday, August 25 2006 @ 2:51 CEST |
| Did you know that SIL actually makes 2 versions of the chip that Asus uses for the EZ backup SATA ports? The version Asus DOESN'T use lets you use each port as an individual SATA port, which would have given this board 5 on the ICH7 bus, not 3. But NO, Asus figured who on earth could need more than 3 (4 if you go waaaaayyy to the other side of the mobo) SATA ports. For a $250+ mobo, there should have been a lot more SATA on ICH7 than 3... |