Intel Desktop Board D975XBX2

Written by Richard Swinburne

February 27, 2007 | 13:34

Tags: #2 #975x #core #crossfire #ddr2 #desktop #firewire #high-definition #ich7r #overclocking #performance #reference #review #sata #spdif #stability #torture #usb #workstation

Companies: #ati #intel #test

Gaming Performance:



High resolution gaming performance is again consistently fast, and whilst not performing the absoulte fastest there's very little difference across the board.
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Posted by DarkLord7854 - Tue Feb 27 2007 14:48

That motherboard is rather.. pathetic. Special considering the pretty high price for it. Makes me think of a phrase: "attrape niggaut" (French) which means it's a like, a trap for er.. un-informed people (different wording could be used but it'd be a bit offensive :p)

Posted by randosome - Tue Feb 27 2007 17:42

uhh :S there are 3 PCI-E slots, a x16 x8 and x4

so why when you use crossfire does it drop the first slot to x8, when the second slot doesn't get any speed increase
Did i completely drop the ball or does this seem completely stupid to you too ?

Posted by Guest-16 - Tue Feb 27 2007 18:26

I'm unsure. The manual says they are x16, x8 and x4 but then change to x8 by x8. Now every 975X board I've ever used is either x16 and x1 OR x8 and x8. I'm only going by what Intel has stated and I have to go on, but my gut feeling would be it's x16 and x1 or x8 and x8.

Posted by randosome - Tue Feb 27 2007 20:05

that would make sense, but that means that the slots are either x16 x1 x4 or x8 x8 x4 ... (although they will fit x16 x8 and x4 cards, not that it matters as a knife can make them all support x16 cards)
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