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Most of the people making media PC's or workplace PC's intend to use the onboard video because it's cheap, powerful enough and quiet so they don't care that the slot is x4 because it's probably going to be empty. However if you want to game on the machine you'll be needing a real video card at...

worth having a respectful gaze at this SG03 watercooling: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1286040

I'm not sure anyone really knows. Only mATX users would consider running a high end video card in a deficient motherboard. Almost all the benchmarks are done using motherboards with PCIe2 16x only. Tom's hardware has an older article which seems to suggest there is ample bandwidth, but...

Thanks for that confirmation pissboy, settles the matter rather definitively.

I agree. Really odd that the low end board has the more sensible layout. The difference between this and the P5Q-EM is max 8Gb of ram and a slower onboard video. Neither of which are much of an issue for a gaming system. The only concern I have is that both newegg and the Asus page don't...

I e-mailed DFI as well, but it looks like the answer is pretty clear. The lack of flexibility is somewhat disappointing. It means for a single video card I might as well have bought the GA-G33M-DS2R many months ago. Not so interested in a benchmark on a 4850. FPS on a high resolution game...

I'm pretty sure it mentioned the lanes being jumper selectable but that might have been for the full size board as info was a bit confused early on. Certainly the manual seems to give fairly complete coverage of the available jumpers and there's nothing pertaining to PCIe that I can see. Maybe a...

The block diagram for the P45 makes it fairly clear the x1 slot is independent. However it's going to be physically blocked if you want to run a double slot card (eg. 4870x2 / GTX) and can't get 16 lanes while it's in the lower x16 slot. I have the feeling they've just hardwired it to always...

Given ATI is doing fairly well at the moment I think these CF boards have a market. I downloaded the manual and it is entirely silent on how the expansion slots function. It looks like there's no jumpers so speed selection must be automatic / bios. The manual disturbingly says: • 2 PCI...

As I understand it you can use jumpers to set one of the PCIe slots to x16 if you're running a single card. Can you decide which of the two slots becomes x16 or is it always the one closest to the CPU? If not that means the board would have your video card, a covered over x1, a dead slot and...

Upgrading my aging P4 system myself. The performance gains being quoted for nehalem are unreliable. You can't use a single "per clock" speed when the difference is a much larger number of cores. Actual performance gain will depend on usage and the software taking advantage of cores which will...

Taken long enough for these to show up. It will be an interesting battle between this and the DFI P45 LP JR for the best gaming mATX case. If you don't need crossfire (which given the power of the Gx280 / 4870x2 is pretty niche) the two boards look close. This one has a better sound card I...

I figure it should be fine in an SG03, with 2 120mm fans it draws in a pretty decent amount of air. From looking at the video card situation I'm not sure this motherboard actually makes much sense though. If would only be an advantage if you are going to run two ATI cards. And given that the...

I'm looking for an external (eg. Mobile, plus my box is SFF), reliable (eg. Raid) and high capacity storage solution. I'd prefer it to be eSATA for speed and convenience plus the ability to swap drives in and out since naked drives are incredibly cheap media now. I've seen a couple of products...

That web-page is interesting. Most of the pictures have been the T2RS but that's a T3RS / DDR3 version? Seems pretty cool to be supporting high end RAM on a mATX motherboard.