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Gigabyte: i945 build to last   Posted on 02/01/2007 at 21:18 by Nicolas - source: Gigabyte

	Gigabyte, who is currently losing steam, has released a new range of motherboards based on Intel 945 chipsets and solid electrolytic capacitors. The benefit of these capacitors compared to wet electrolytic capacitor, generally employed for middle-range products, is that they guarantee a better stability and a longer life. Gigabyte also mentioned higher frequencies and better overclockings. We can only praise initiatives that lead to improvements of middle range motherboards. However, we feel that it is excessive to use more expensive components when it is not necessary since the quality of capacitors close to the CPU is almost the only one that is critical. Also, overclockers will prefer using motherboards based on 965 or 975 which are generally equipped with solid electrolytic capacitors. In addition, such a modification will only lead to higher production costs and higher end prices. Under those circumstances, it is hard to find a real point to this motherboard expect maybe for those who are sure to use it for many years.

Abracadabra, nForce4 becomes nForce5   Posted on 02/01/2007 at 12:35 by Marc

	OCWorkbench has denounced a common practice in the computer hardware world: the modification of a product name without changing its characteristics to update it. This time, NVIDIA is the target as the company changed the name of the nForce 4 SLI, nForce 4 Ultra and nForce 4 chipsets for AMD platform to nForce 500 SLI, nForce 500 Ultra and nForce 500. We have interrogated NVIDIA France and their representative confirmed us that these were the same chipsets with a different name. We believe that this is a good thing that NVIDIA kept these cheaper chipsets featuring less functions than the other nForce series 5, but we regret that they had to change their names because of a purely marketing issue. We also found out that an nForce 520 would be released soon. It would be identical to the nForce 510 except that it will support 10 USB ports and 4 SATA instead of 8 and 2.