I found this section a bit confusing though: (here)
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In comparison, Asus has made it so that if the P5K(3) uses the second PCI-Express x16 slot at its x4 bandwidth instead of x1, then the other extra PCI-Express x1 lanes are disabled. This way it gives priority to the included PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet controllers. You’ll not notice any difference if you are running a 10/100 network, but if you have the infrastructure and rely on Gigabit Ethernet bandwidth, the PCI solution will come out slower, especially if you have a bunch of PCI devices too.
Good review as ever. :)
Are you sure about the warranty section - afaik abit UK & USA have different policies?
Oh & knocking the board for having few USB ports when it supports 12 (albeit 8 x header & " It wouldn’t matter so much if Abit had included another few USB ports provided on a PCI bracket." - they did ;)) ...
what my friend free cable guy FCG fails to see is that using his method abit will take longer time (more money) to secure the cooling so they wont use nuts screws and washers
Originally Posted by BUFF Good review as ever. :)
Are you sure about the warranty section - afaik abit UK & USA have different policies?
Oh & knocking the board for having few USB ports when it supports 12 (albeit 8 x header & " It wouldn’t matter so much if Abit had included another few USB ports provided on a PCI bracket." - they did ;)) ...
he did say why not four usb ports on the pci bracket
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would the screws actully make that much difference temp wise?
Originally Posted by BUFF Good review as ever. :)
Are you sure about the warranty section - afaik abit UK & USA have different policies?
Oh & knocking the board for having few USB ports when it supports 12 (albeit 8 x header & " It wouldn’t matter so much if Abit had included another few USB ports provided on a PCI bracket." - they did ;)) ...
Few PROVIDED USB ports. I can't plug a mouse into pin-outs :P
Abit in total include 6/12 usable USB ports out the box, which means you'll have to find yourself some other PCI brackets etc to use the rest of the ports.
About Abit warranty: I've just been chatting to the guy from Abit Taiwan this morning and apparently it might be different in the UK but the Abit manual, site and forums provide no definitive answer, just most say 3 years.
Screws and temps: take off the shitty thermal pads, lap the base, use a touch of good quality thermal paste and those screws and you'll get a far far better contact. This is true for all boards. Pushpins are cheap and easy to use on the production line but they're oh so very crap: You wouldn't hold a CPU down with a couple would you? Chipsets will soon need a similar security.
Originally Posted by Bindibadgi Few PROVIDED USB ports. I can't plug a mouse into pin-outs :P
Abit in total include 6/12 usable USB ports out the box, which means you'll have to find yourself some other PCI brackets etc to use the rest of the ports.
chances are that your case has at least 2 more though.
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About Abit warranty: I've just been chatting to the guy from Abit Taiwan this morning and apparently it might be different in the UK but the Abit manual, site and forums provide no definitive answer, just most say 3 years.
In the US it's 3 years with the first 2 years being free but a $25 charge in the 3rd (they'll also accept a board with physical damage for RMA for a $25 charge which afaik is pretty unique).
Sean@abit UK has said that in the UK it's just 2 years.
This board is interesting. It is the only P35 based board I have seen that supports setting the command rate. Older Intel chipsets always ran it at 2T. I would expect a noticeable improvement in latency from that setting, but your results showed the opposite. I was wondering if during your review you noticed any performance difference between having 1T or 2T set in the bios???
With the move to one ide interface by many mobo manufacturers, why do they only include 6 sata ports? And then put 2 esata ports on?! Who uses esata? They'd be far more useful just being normal sata, so you end up having 8 sata ports on board. All my optical and hard drives are sata - that's 7 devices in total.
Originally Posted by kenco_uk With the move to one ide interface by many mobo manufacturers
you mean really mean the move to 0 by Intel forcing the mfrs to add an IDE controller to give at least 1 ...
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why do they only include 6 sata ports?
because that's how many the ICH9R has.
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And then put 2 esata ports on?! Who uses esata?
people with external storage (eSATA is far quicker than USB2 or Firewire).
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They'd be far more useful just being normal sata, so you end up having 8 sata ports on board. All my optical and hard drives are sata - that's 7 devices in total.
the 2 eSATA are on the JMicron & imo the best thing to do with that anyway is disable it in the BIOS ...
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I found this section a bit confusing though: (here)
- Thought they were just PCI controllers?
/end minor niggle;)
-sorry Rich-
Looks like a nice board, and as always, a good review!
Shot at 2007-07-12
Is that it?
If so, here is a review.
Are you sure about the warranty section - afaik abit UK & USA have different policies?
Oh & knocking the board for having few USB ports when it supports 12 (albeit 8 x header & " It wouldn’t matter so much if Abit had included another few USB ports provided on a PCI bracket." - they did ;)) ...
he did say why not four usb ports on the pci bracket
edit
would the screws actully make that much difference temp wise?
Few PROVIDED USB ports. I can't plug a mouse into pin-outs :P
Abit in total include 6/12 usable USB ports out the box, which means you'll have to find yourself some other PCI brackets etc to use the rest of the ports.
About Abit warranty: I've just been chatting to the guy from Abit Taiwan this morning and apparently it might be different in the UK but the Abit manual, site and forums provide no definitive answer, just most say 3 years.
Screws and temps: take off the shitty thermal pads, lap the base, use a touch of good quality thermal paste and those screws and you'll get a far far better contact. This is true for all boards. Pushpins are cheap and easy to use on the production line but they're oh so very crap: You wouldn't hold a CPU down with a couple would you? Chipsets will soon need a similar security.
Sean@abit UK has said that in the UK it's just 2 years.
Nice board...but a bit of a problem in the firewire department.
mmmmmhhh...unreleased intel C2E..yummy...
Yep I've just had confirmation that it's only 2 years in the UK. :(
Hi Max, didn't check mate, there will be some but I can't imagine it's very noticable.
bah, grumble, etc.