Computex 2005 Early Bird Coverage 43
zbojnik83 writes "
Today was the official start of this year's Computex, but as always
we were able to get a sneak peak at the show before the floor actually opened. With the show a day barely underway, we've already seen the first AMD BTX motherboard, a number of NVIDIA G70 graphics cards, an Intel motherboard that can be switched to an Socket-939 board by just purchasing a single card and the details of ATI's new multi-GPU chipset."
Re:Does anyone know? (Score:2)
*sigh* (Score:2)
I miss the good-ol-days when everything used the same socket. It silly stuff like this a non-issue.
Re:*sigh* (Score:2)
"an Intel motherboard that can be switched to an Socket-939 board by just purchasing a single card"
I miss the good-ol-days when everything used the same socket. It silly stuff like this a non-issue.
Re:*sigh* (Score:2)
Re:*sigh* (Score:2)
It ironic stuff like this a +5 Funny!
Re:Not enough (Score:4, Insightful)
For one, it was designed such to accomodate Intel's excessively power wasteful chips that aren't proving to be worth the power they waste.
For another, most of the changes to accomodate these wasteful chips could have been done as simple tweaks of ATX, call it ATX 3.0. Without having to contend with nearly so much of a change, ATX 3.0 cases could still have housed ATX 2.0 boards. ATX 2.0 case designs would have only needed a few changes to work. Granted, ATX 3 boards might not work so well in ATX 2 cases because the older cases wouldn't have the necessary mount points to take the stress of the extra heatsink weight.
PicoBTX is nice but given the acceptance of the small form factor ATX systems, I don't see how picoBTX is different enough to be more accepted.
Re:Not enough (Score:2)
I thought the (supposed) advantage of picoBTX was the efficient cooling system that's already part of the spec, which can be easily (and cheaply) implemented by any case maker. The components that need cooling (CPU, chipset, and GPU) are in-line with the BTX airflow and the fan/heatsink/thermal module is part of the CPU.
Quiet small form factor ATX systems tend t
Re:Not enough (Score:1)
All connectors were on a seperate back-plate, or you could punch out a cover and mount the serial, parallel, game port, SCSI connectors, and everything else except the keyboard connector. So building a system meant you had to connect every one of these connectors via a small ribbon cable to the motherboard. Tod
Re:Is it just me or.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is it just me or.. (Score:2)
Re:Is it just me or.. (Score:2)
They do have the latest personal air filtration technology, but they pulled the batteries from them to power up a more important technology that needed the power. (laptop, PDA, cell phone).
Where is it? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Maybe you, like I, are wondering, Where is it?. One would find Computex 2005 in Taipei.
More information... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:More information... (Score:1)
Re:More information... (Score:2)
Too bad, that now, once it's in public domain, it can't be patented so they probably won't pick it
Re:More information... (Score:1)
i guess when i wasn't looking hd manufacturers boosted hd performance 100x...
or that because this product transfers thru the aging pci, it is limited to 133 (max theoritcal rate) MB/s.
these should have been out ages ago and been only held back by the price of ram at the time. i see no reason why this isn't just a godawful cheap hack.
it deserves no applaud. it only took about 10 years for someone to come out with a cheap gadget that could do this f
Re:More information... (Score:2)
They love to show MAXIMUM hdd transfers, which are close to ramdisk speeds, because of cache reads, high speed of disk spinning and data density in a sector. Therefore a single, continuous big file read is really fast. But the seek times still suck - physically moving the head takes a lot of time and only the data from cache can be transferred in the meantime. Read speed of multiple small files scattered over the drive will take much long
Bad link to "ATI's new multi-GPU chipset" (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Bad link to "ATI's new multi-GPU chipset" (Score:1)
Re:The sad thing is.. (Score:1)
Re:lack of interest (Score:1)