Thread: ComputeX 2008 news

Originally Posted by Bamboo

P45 is already out at newegg.com
They have 8 boards listed, and over the next week or 2 I am sure that number will go way up. Also, over the next week or 2 lots more tech sites will be doing reviews to help you pick which board you want to buy DesertFox.
I have to say I am really happy with my ASUS, even more now that I am using it's built in Wi-Fi. Didn't think I would ever use it, but not having internet convinced me to give it a try. Loaded the drivers, searched for a signal, and got it up and running.
Also, ASUS is going to have the instant on OS feature soon, and that makes me wish I could buy a new board. I like the idea of pushing the on button and in 3 sec. you are into a Linux OS and can use firefox and a ton of other stuff. No more waiting 60 sec. or more for windows to load up.

GTX280 they are still thinking next week for release, but of course rich folks will be buying up all the stock for the first 2 weeks or so, keeping prices jacked probably.
Good news is the rumor is Nvidia lowered the MSRP on it after realizing ATI has good cards and will undercut them by $50%.
Links:
280 drops to $499[/url] 4870 to beat 9800GTX[/url]
Take this one with a grain of salt, but if it is true, all I can say is WOWOWOWOW
Make sure you look at what rez they say is running for each test before you look at the score.

I think 1 GTX280 will run Crysis pretty decent at that rez (pure speculation on my part), but considering the score of the 9800GTX, I think it will. Might not if you are running full on AA and AF, but should run good without it cranked up.

And no, it can not run SLI. It can run Crossfire, if you are using ATI cards, but if you want SLI you will have to go with an Nvidia chipset motherboard. Right now there is really a war going on between Intel and Nvidia, and Nvidia knows that if they license their SLI tech for use on Intel chipsets, they can kiss their own chipset income and sales goodby.
So right now Nvidia is actually getting all cuddly with another chip maker VIA, that is like the underdog of AMD and Intel, but they actually have some good tech coming up.
And the crazy thing is Intel is cuddly with AMD so they can have Crossfire on their chipsets, to compete with Nvidia. Talk about sleeping with the enemy.

Sorry to go offtopic again but


For the P45 I Will be probably be using DD3 ram,
ASUS P5Q3-DELUXE/WIFI-AP ATX LGA775 P45 DDR3 3PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 2PCI SATA WiFi eSATA 1394 Motherboard
That is the one I want, correct?

What about the X48, from the link you posted above with all the motherboard reviews it seems as if the performance increase doesn't really justify the higher price.

I won't be using linux but does instant work for Vista to XP?

Also was reading a couple people talking about DDR3 ram and that there is some DDR3 ram that is slower then DDR2. ( they were saying mostly DDR3-1333 ) is that true?

From the looks of it the P45 will be my best bet as after thinking about it im not really a big fan of SLI since I dont run at really high resolutions.

thanks once again.