Nice Gigabyte G-Bay board!!

[The PIT]

Originally posted by MultimediaMan
Abit, on the other hand (...and to kick the cat around a little more...), will only issue BIOS updates if there is something that desperately needs fixing, and even then, only for a year or so - two at most. Any after that will be "beta" only.

That means they do it all the time then.

[Admiral]

Is there a way to check the northbridge revision before buying ?
(written somewhere on the PCB or specified in the manual ?)

Somehow I don't think anyone will let you remove the northbridge heatsink in the shop to check on the chip

[The PIT]

I would make a guess on the board revision number.

[WyWyWyWy]

Originally posted by Admiral
Is there a way to check the northbridge revision before buying ?

Yes, buy second hand.

[Admiral]

Quite right, thanks guys

It still looks mighty expensive, 160$ more compared to the GA8PE667.
Will that extra bandwidth be worth for DOOM III ?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by Kooldino
Huh?


I really like the "Color coded front panel pin design" Very nice touch.

I guess i kind of misleaded some ppl.

I really like the features Gigabyte and Abit puts onto the market...

On the other hand... Abit capacitors DOA and Gigabyte...

[Tempest]

Off Topic:

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Am I the only one who read that "B-Gay" ?

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[DentyCracker]

ROFL

[Chrono_Wanderer]

lol.

[Admiral]

Meet the SINXP (SIS 655) sister.

[WyWyWyWy]

F!!
Too many choices...
Hmm... should I keep my 845PE which is just 2 weeks old... hmm...

[Admiral]

keep it

2-12-2003 UDPATE: Gigabyte sends word that, even though the vast majority of SINXP1394 motherboards will be B0 stepping, there will be a small amount of A0 stepping SINXP1394 motherboards sold too. Gigabyte says they have made a particular modification to the BIOS of A0 stepping motherboards that allows full support for Hyper Threading (all B0 SINXP1394 boards support Hyper Threading of course). We have also received information that, while the SINXP1394 is capable of 800MHz FSB support through overclocking, Gigabyte cannot guarantee that the upcoming 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 processors will operate correctly in Gigabyte SINXP1394 motherboards until they find out exactly what changes Intel makes to mass production 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 silicon.

taken from the Anandtech review

[Kurt]

yep, always sth better around the corner...

then again only the 3GHz and 3.2GHz part should receive the 800MHz FSB treatment initially...which is going to make the 2.8GHz very attractive with the SIS659 RDRAM chipset...