Originally Posted by azrael- Seems like most BIOS revisions from ASUS are beta these days. Is there even a non-beta BIOS revision for the original Maximus Formula yet?
Telling me - when we originally reviewed it we had all number of problems. Eventually we went live with a good but "meh" score, then further BIOS revisions came out that were better. However, the board had already been on sale for a month at this point.
Curiosity question time: what's the model number of that Sil chipset? The Silicon Image website doesn't list a product that specifically jumps-out and says 'I do fakeraid, yet non-fakeraid array spoofing to the OS', and Asus don't appear to have the specs up yet.
Missing your review-style image with all the components numbered! :D
Originally Posted by TomH Curiosity question time: what's the model number of that Sil chipset? The Silicon Image website doesn't list a product that specifically jumps-out and says 'I do fakeraid, yet non-fakeraid array spoofing to the OS', and Asus don't appear to have the specs up yet.
Bumpety-bump. Quite surprised no-one else (particularly those in the Linux circles) would like to know the answer to this, either!
Also: was there any mention of 10GigE in the ICH10R bridge? :)
Originally Posted by TomH Bumpety-bump. Quite surprised no-one else (particularly those in the Linux circles) would like to know the answer to this, either!
Also: was there any mention of 10GigE in the ICH10R bridge? :)
No mention of 10GigE, but then again I've still not had a peep out of Intel.
It's Sil5723
I don't do the number thingy in first looks - it takes too long to put together. It's really just a splash and dash because quite often layouts and sometimes chipsets change ;)
I'd love to see some simple testing of it in the full review, if you have the time. :D
As for Intel: I'm fairly certain 10GigE is possible in ICH10, but it's whether or not anyone chooses to implement it. You'd have to dedicate at least 4x PCI-E lanes to one single feature, just to feed a technology that nearly no-one's going to use (or use to its full effect). Suppose it's wishful thinking to see it this early-on. :)
Edit: Just found some details about another upcoming P45-based board. This Gigabyte uses two of the twin-port SiI5723 chips, each fed from a single JMicron SATA-300 channel. They're just port-multiplied. However, 150MB/sec is still more than enough for each drive, particularly when you get the benefit of hardware RAID. :)
Someone's finally done it. No more dmraid for me. :D
Originally Posted by TomH As for Intel: I'm fairly certain 10GigE is possible in ICH10, but it's whether or not anyone chooses to implement it. You'd have to dedicate at least 4x PCI-E lanes to one single feature, just to feed a technology that nearly no-one's going to use (or use to its full effect). Suppose it's wishful thinking to see it this early-on. :)
I woudnt expect to see that implemented in any desktop board this year, maybe Asus will bring out one that has it in their Workstation line... but the cost of it would be high, you would need storage media that can feed it (whats the point in the netwrok being faster than the hdd anyway?), not to mention that there is currently no 10gig network hw avalaible for the home market.
Originally Posted by naokaji I woudnt expect to see that implemented in any desktop board this year, maybe Asus will bring out one that has it in their Workstation line... but the cost of it would be high, you would need storage media that can feed it (whats the point in the netwrok being faster than the hdd anyway?), not to mention that there is currently no 10gig network hw avalaible for the home market.
Indeed, and (as above) I do agree. I've done a lot of research into 10GigE recently, and one of the things I can say from it is that someone needs to take the first step into the mainstream with it. Which might as well be Intel.
Gigabit was deemed pretty pointless at one point (and still is, really), so it's the same-old story. Still, I'd like to see the more mass-adopted hardware appearing sooner rather than later.
With the possibility of ICH10R coming with 10GigE, it also means that the server-class boards could soon be shipped with >Gigabit NICs. This is a good thing for SOHO NAS/SAN on the cheap! :)
Bumping this a bit late perhaps... But still, since Bit-tech haven't reviewed the Maximus II Formula yet... Will you please confirm stability with 8 Gb RAM, using all four slots? Referring of course to the recent article on memory, in which you used the P5Q Deluxe. A darn shame to, with the stability issues running 8 Gb / 4 DIMMs, since I was thinking of buying that particular board. Also, is there any real world performance difference between 2x16 PCI-E channels and 2x8, using for example two Radeon HD 4850/70 in CF?
would have left corssfire option open if gone £5 more for Rampage. can Bittech explain why would one want to sacrafice 2 full x16 PCIe speed for Maximus 2 at same cost?
Comments 26 to 35 of 35
That means that the Hybrid SLi and Hybrid Power are only supported on the newest nForce chipset, currently limited to AMD boards
The Intel versions are released soon and they'll also support it!
Telling me - when we originally reviewed it we had all number of problems. Eventually we went live with a good but "meh" score, then further BIOS revisions came out that were better. However, the board had already been on sale for a month at this point.
Missing your review-style image with all the components numbered! :D
Also: was there any mention of 10GigE in the ICH10R bridge? :)
No mention of 10GigE, but then again I've still not had a peep out of Intel.
It's Sil5723
I don't do the number thingy in first looks - it takes too long to put together. It's really just a splash and dash because quite often layouts and sometimes chipsets change ;)
I'd love to see some simple testing of it in the full review, if you have the time. :D
As for Intel: I'm fairly certain 10GigE is possible in ICH10, but it's whether or not anyone chooses to implement it. You'd have to dedicate at least 4x PCI-E lanes to one single feature, just to feed a technology that nearly no-one's going to use (or use to its full effect). Suppose it's wishful thinking to see it this early-on. :)
Edit: Just found some details about another upcoming P45-based board. This Gigabyte uses two of the twin-port SiI5723 chips, each fed from a single JMicron SATA-300 channel. They're just port-multiplied. However, 150MB/sec is still more than enough for each drive, particularly when you get the benefit of hardware RAID. :)
Someone's finally done it. No more dmraid for me. :D
I woudnt expect to see that implemented in any desktop board this year, maybe Asus will bring out one that has it in their Workstation line... but the cost of it would be high, you would need storage media that can feed it (whats the point in the netwrok being faster than the hdd anyway?), not to mention that there is currently no 10gig network hw avalaible for the home market.
Gigabit was deemed pretty pointless at one point (and still is, really), so it's the same-old story. Still, I'd like to see the more mass-adopted hardware appearing sooner rather than later.
With the possibility of ICH10R coming with 10GigE, it also means that the server-class boards could soon be shipped with >Gigabit NICs. This is a good thing for SOHO NAS/SAN on the cheap! :)
would have left corssfire option open if gone £5 more for Rampage. can Bittech explain why would one want to sacrafice 2 full x16 PCIe speed for Maximus 2 at same cost?