Intel Motherboards

Intel also recently launched their dual core processors, but to much lower fan fare from the online media, even with their outreach to more price brackets.  There weren’t a whole lot of innovations on the Intel front either, but we’ll go over some of the better boards we saw.

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MSI’s nForce4 SLI Intel Edition motherboard is shown here with a new revision that sports logic on the board to detect if two video cards are installed, negating the need for a physical SLI paddle.

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The Abit AW8 is an Intel 955X chipset motherboard that is the first to utilize a new OTES Silent Cool feature that appears to be cooling the north bridge without any noise from a fan.  Abit is claiming that overclocking is still very high on this board and that other boards with fans will have no advantages.

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Abit also has an Intel Edition of their nForce4 SLI motherboard coming soon.

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This board seen at the Gigabyte booth shows a dual PCIe x16 slot configuration on an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.  More proof of Intel’s plans to officially enter the SLI and CrossFire market?

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Here is an Asus board based on the VIA PT880 Ultra chipset, one we previewed quite a while ago.  If this comes to market it will give P4 users a chance to upgrade their platform and still utilize an AGP graphics card as well as to support PCIe GPUs as well.

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