“GIGABYTE has done a wonderful job with the GA-G1975X Turbo motherboard. Feature-wise it scores at the top of the features chart with 39 points on our scale. The ability of the board to do Crossfire and the inclusion of a SLI bridge means this board is ready for multiple GPUs if NVIDIA ever adds support for SLI in their drivers on non-NVIDIA boards. At the moment however that seems somewhat unlikely.”Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- ECS C19-A SLI nForce4 SLI Intel Edition Motherboard Review @ PCstats.com
- ASUS P5WD2-E Premium 975X Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
- ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 (ULi M1695) @ hardwarezone
- Gigabyte K8U-939 review @ DH
- ABIT AN8 32X SLI Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews
- Sapphire PURE CrossFire PC-A9RD580 Motherboard @ TweakTown
- Intel Pentium D 805 – Dual Core on a Budget @ AnandTech
Gigabyte is thinking ahead
Gigabyte’s GA-G1975X Turbo offers a lot in the way of extras. as far as Motherboards.org is concerned. A lot of the features you would expect to see, from the inclusion of a integrated SoundBlaster to 4 SATA ports and built in exhast fans. The inclusion of an SLI paddle on an non-nVIDIA chipset seems odd, as nVIDIA doesn’t plan on allowing non-nVIDIA chipsets to supprt them, but then again, some enterprising BIOS tweaker may just solve that for you.