2 Gigabyte Mainboard reviews

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The first, from Guru3D is a Gigabyte GA-G1975X mainboard review.

The Gigabyte G1-Turbo combine the finest from Intel & Gigabyte and have more functions than a Swiss-knife. This mainboard is the firstborn from that G1-Turbo series. Featuring the latest Intel 975X Express chipset, it support the latest Intel Pentium Dual-core & Extreme Edition with an FSB frequency up to 1066MHz. The new 975X chipset is in many ways similar to the 955X but now has official support for dual PCI-E graphic cards for and even better gaming experience.

The second is a Bjorn3D review of the Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 nForce 430 Motherboard.

Integrated graphics have had a bad reputation for years, offering performance bad enough to be called "graphics decelerators" by many. Choked by relatively slow system memory and comparatively simple circuitry, integrated graphics have historically been a poor substitute for add-in cards. NVIDIA hopes to reverse this trend with its new GeForce 6150 integrated graphics processor.

View: The 15 Page Article @ Guru3D | Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 Review @ Bjorn3D

(1 reply) #1 kravex on 08 Feb 2006 - 13:21

Will the Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 use the Standard Nvidia driver? Usually (as with laptop's) onboard video chips other than Intel's need a completely different driver than is released for Cards an the laptop one is never updated.

#1.1 jvalej on 09 Feb 2006 - 10:41

You can always count on laptopvideo2go.com

#2 Nelsinho on 08 Feb 2006 - 15:23

wow, ga-g1975x is one awesome mobo but very expensive also at least for me

#3 Croquant on 08 Feb 2006 - 18:13

The fan-based cooling on that one board is ridiculous. Not only do of the fans take up valuable back-panel real estate which could have been put to better use with some more ports, but the whole thing could have been replaced by a much more efficient heat-pipe design. Besides, this is aimed at enthusiast gamers, most of whom are going to use liquid cooling anyways. As for this thing supposedly cooling the RAM.. well.. that's what heatspreaders are for. You don't realy need to cool your RAM sticks anyways, and if you feel the need to do so there are plenty of thrid-party RAM cooling products out there.

#4 ND40oz on 10 Feb 2006 - 02:06

Wow, they really hampered the 975x board with that processor. I have this board and had my 640 at 4 ghz and now my 930 at 3.75 all at the stock voltage.

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