CeBIT 2007: bit-tech Hardware Roundup

Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove
Did you get any idea of the price on the Ramdisk thingy? probably to expensive anyway...:(

Nice roundup guys, I presume there was a mod contest and that you will show us pictures of that at some point?????

The CeBIT mods article is penciled in for next week, but as usual things are subject to change round here.

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi
The CeBIT mods article is penciled in for next week, but as usual things are subject to change round here.

Sweet, looking forward to it :D

real nice gear on its way ill be waiting forever to get an uber rig

"As for PCI to PCI-Express conversion, I don't think they are necessarily ********ting: PCI-Express *is* tailored towards high bandwidth, larger packets and Hyper Transport is tailored to smaller, more frequent trips. For a hardware solution, it's harder because you'd have to go back and completely engineer the silicon rather than something that palms data off to the CPU. Asus' solution is CPU based also, so it doesn't really compare. Having said that, Creative is a massive company, and I don't think hardware engineers know how to write Vista drivers somehow."

well the same thing was said about the ISA > PCI transistoion as the same staments can be made in comparison and yet no one thinks twice about how much harder it is to interface PCI over ISA. Put it like this in my A2 project I need an ethernet card and am planning to to interface it to a PIC chip, due to the complexity I can't even consider using a PCI card and have to use an old ISA card (forcing it into 8bit mode at the same time). But creative surley have better people than me and they should be able to figure stuff like this out :|

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi
The CeBIT mods article is penciled in for next week, but as usual things are subject to change round here.

Do you even have pens next to your schedule?

Hehe, our plugs can handle it. 10Amps at 240V = 2400W
But that is rediculous. What are they using? Quad Crossfired X2900XTX OC Duel or even Quad Quad core (Intel style no less) And 25 Hard drives? And then you would be comming up on 2KW. 1KW for quad crossfire, 500W for quad quad cores, 250W for hard drives, with 250 Watts left for other things like fans, pumps and DVD drives.

The ICH9 southbridge family now comes in a few flavours: ICH9, ICH9DH and ICH9DO. All iterations of the southbridge support twelve USB ports, six PCI-Express x1 ports, six SATA 3Gbps ports with eSATA and Matrix RAID support, Intel HD Audio and a single PATA port.

Have intel decided to add back in a PATA port after removing it from the P965? Nice to see the ICH9 is officially eSATA capable!

Based on the size of the heatsinks covering the upcoming Nvidia IGP chipsets it looks like they have made VAST improvements in power consumption. Any idea what process they're made on. The Bearlake chipsets are supposedly built on 65nm so will be interesting to see their power consumption as well.

I'm very interested in the X-Fi notebook card. Would love to see a review on bit for that when it's released!

So has Razer changed their name?! lol just kidding, otherwise great article.

Originally Posted by Renoir
Have intel decided to add back in a PATA port after removing it from the P965? Nice to see the ICH9 is officially eSATA capable!

Based on the size of the heatsinks covering the upcoming Nvidia IGP chipsets it looks like they have made VAST improvements in power consumption. Any idea what process they're made on. The Bearlake chipsets are supposedly built on 65nm so will be interesting to see their power consumption as well.

I'm very interested in the X-Fi notebook card. Would love to see a review on bit for that when it's released!

ICH8 and NVIDIA 6-series MCPs are also eSATA capable.

I asked about the PATA thing and couldn't get an affirmative despite it being in the P35 flow chat, so I honestly don't know yet.

I'll be sure to verify what process that are made on, at a guess, because it's a simple, small chipset I'd suggest 65nm.

The review for the X-Fi notebook card might be on here, or TR, or both, we're not sure yet. :)

No booth babes? Tch, hardly worth going ;)

The V1 looks pretty cool (hoho).

Nice roundup - it was only last night that I was looking around for a half-decent roundup of relevant hardware at CeBit.

ICH8 and NVIDIA 6-series MCPs are also eSATA capable.

Good to know. Any idea about the SB600?

I asked about the PATA thing and couldn't get an affirmative despite it being in the P35 flow chat, so I honestly don't know yet.

Interesting. Adding it in would likely be an admission of having made a mistake leaving it out in the ICH8.

I'll be sure to verify what process that are made on, at a guess, because it's a simple, small chipset I'd suggest 65nm.

Given it's a single chip and yet still has a small heatsink I would also have thought it must be a 65nm chip.

The review for the X-Fi notebook card might be on here, or TR, or both, we're not sure yet. :)

Look forward to it :) Although I don't visit trusted reviews so hopefully it gets mentioned on this site when it gets published.