Computex 2007 Previews New Hardware

MojoKid writes "The always humongous Computex show in Taipei is just about to go full swing and previews of some interesting new technologies are already springing up. Intel's new generation of P35 and X38 motherboard chipsets have spurred a bunch of new products, like this new SFF PC from Shuttle and the IX38 QuadGT motherboard from Abit that looks promising. Of course AMD has their new platform arsenal on display as well, like these 690G motherboards from Gigabyte. All told, Computex looks to be a tidal wave of tech for PC geeks."

take with a grain of salt

[RealityProphet]

I hear there's a 1 in 5 chance this article's crap.

wow wow wowy!

[tomstdenis]

I'm having a hard time getting it up for this nerd porn. 1.3GHz front side bus? 1.6GHz memory? And people are going to notice this [other than in extra power consumption?]

Tom

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[alen]

you'll notice when /. comes up .1 seconds faster

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[tomstdenis]

hehehehe. I'm sure the new gear *is* faster, but at which point do you just stop noticing? If a page renders in 19ms instead of 20ms, it is faster, but would you notice and is it worth the extra power consumption?

Tom

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[MrNemesis]

Seconded.

Sheesh, half of my fiddling time with new computers is finding ways to get the power consumtpion down. My flatmate just inherited a top-end gaming rig (Core2 Extreme, 2GB "gamer" RAM, 8800GTX, 2xRaptors in RAID0) and is saying it only seems marginally faster than his previous Celeron/1GB/6600GT which had a lower power draw at full pelt than this new hulk does at idle. Most users have already stopped noticing (miniscule) speed improvements and only believe a machine is faster because the marketing s

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[that this is not und]

But if a video renders in 40 seconds instead of four minutes, it does make a difference.

Also important for running simulations, i.e. for FPGA development, and autorouting, and other _Real_ _Work_ computer uses.

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[tomstdenis]

Hey hey hey, you're not a troll, don't be so hard on yourself.

Anyways, before anyone comments, let me add to my post. 1.3GHz bus = ~325MHz quad-pumped. Meaning sure you get bandwidth but the latency is still slacking behind. Latency is where the performance is at nowadays anyways. Same with the 1.6GHz memory (which I might add doesn't make much sense attached to a 1.3Ghz FSB).

If you really want performance, memory bandwidth is not the problem nowadays. It's latency. If you have your 3GHz processor idl

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[cnettel]

One good thing with Santa Rosa is that, while the bus is 800 MHz (ok 200 MHz quad-pumped), Speedstep will affect the bus as well, scaling it down to 400 when relevant, making the chipset far less power hungry than the previous generation, on average.

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[Joe The Dragon]

With AMD cpus 1.6GHz memory does make sense as it is linked right to the cpu with having to use the same bus as the cpu uses for dual-core to dual-core on die traffic + cpu to chipset traffic.

In the eternal quest to make hardware interesting

[simong]

yet another article fails like a big faily thing. There will be far more interesting things at Computex when it opens than half built PCs. Like... err... hmmm, give me a minute...

Man o man o man

[packetmon]

DFI told us that this board is just a reference design and that the board that we'll see come to market will have a unique cooler design that will be very impressive. I can't wait to install one of these babies in my machine then take off the covers and see the ugly insides 24/7. The noise, the wires, the dust accumulating! I think I need a bigger cooler cause I'm getting so hot

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[Aladrin]

So you think that the only way a 'unique cooler design' could be impressive is to -look- cool? How very sad. The only thing that could impress most geeks is to get the CPU/GPU/ambient an extra few degrees cooler. THAT is impressive.

how long until

[gEvil (beta)]

How long until I can get myself an IG88 motherboard?

Man, I can't wait for

[Fengpost]

the 250 page review of the same old review of faster speed, larger capacity and lower prices on teh Tom's Hardware review!