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Computex Day 1 Coverage Yes we know it's a bit late, but we want to bring you the best of what we see right. Remember those crush boards you saw on our main page ? Our main page will be updated daily with special and hopefully exclusive information. For the full details of our actions, you would like to tune in daily. The first day was in fact the most hectic one for us. In fact, all my schedules were all messed up due to the long waiting queue at the registration counter. We waited for almost 40 mins to get our pre-registration done. I have no choice but to push back and cancel some of important meetings and re-schedule them on Tuesday and Wednesday. At 11am, we managed to squeeze into the Hall 1, which showcases the latest chipsets and peripherals, I was wonder where are the mainboards? Well they are in another exhibition hall - Hall 2 which is "linked" by feeder bus. This is really tough for me, wearing a long sleeve shirt and carrying the notebook and digital camera running around with our whole gang of review writes from our Singapore and Taiwanese team (Our UK team, do you want to go to CEBIT Asia this August) ? Ok. so much of talking, let me bring your around with photos of what we saw on Monday in the following pages. The first booth that attracted our attention is the VIA booth. "Deep Blue" has found it's way onto VIA reference boards too. This reference boards is the P4X266 which supports the P4 Socket 423. From our understanding, VIA is releasing a number of new chipsets for the different segments of the market although this particular chipset has some licensing issues to be sorted out with Intel.
The blue colour reference boards below is the P4X266 reference board from VIA.
Next, we moved on to the Gigabyte booth and found some of the newer Intel stuff on show. It looks like Gigabyte is also pushing their P4 solutions being 423 or 478. On the other hand, Gigabyte also demonstrates it's high end server boards. The one you see below is GA-6EXDR Dual CPU board based on the ServerWorks LE edition
GA-8IDX is a Socket 478 Brookdale board supporting SDRAM
In fact, most people are interested I know are interested to see this mainboard, Gigabyte's nVIDIA offering GA-7NTM, a miroATX nVIDIA Crush 12 mainboard.
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