Motherboards and Video Cards at Cebit 2009

Tradeshow & OC events by massman @ 2009-03-14

Here at Madshrimps, we only have one business trip every year and that´s to Hannover, which is in Germany about six hours away from the home towns of the Belgian Madshrimps reviewers. Since the tradeshow is so close, there´s no point in rolling out our private jet, so we simply asked our driver to prepare our luxurious limousine and drive us to Hannover to check out the latest and greatest video cards and motherboards coming to end-users PCs this year!

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Asrock

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ASRock Inc., established in 2002, is an energetic company with the combination of technology and humanity. Devoting efforts to bring customers the innovative and reliable motherboards with the design concept of 3C, "Creative, Considerate, Cost-effective", ASRock has successfully established a well-known leading brand of the best price-performance motherboard in the industry. Facing the constantly changing technologies of motherboard, ASRock will always keep the vision of the future and develop future-proof products upon our 3C design concept to our customers. It is the commitment to our customers and products, like the spirit presented in our 2004 maxim: "Fly to the Future with ASRock!"

Previous reviews containing Asrock motherboards:

  • 7 Intel Core i7 X58 Motherboards Tested and Compared
  • Asrock Penryn1600SLIX3-WiFi S775 Motherboard Review
  • Tweaking the fastest AGP Based System - Part 1
  • ASRock 4Core1600 P35 WiFi+ S775 Motherboard Review
  • ASRock 4Core1333-eSATA2 R5.0 Intel P31 Motherboard Review
  • ASRock 4Core1333-Viiv and Intel E4400 Performance Review
  • ASRock ConRoe 1333-DVI/H & Intel E2140 Budget System Review




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    The AM3 platform solution from Asrock.

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    This is the supercomputer concept from Asrock, featuring of course the X58 Supercomputer motherboard as the leading star of this system. Asrock told us they have fixed bugs that occurred when installing three GTX295 cards and the board is fully capable now running 4 video accelerators and 6 memory banks filled.

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    Actually, we were wrong when we said Cebit didn't offer any novelties. Of course there's the GT250, but there's also Asrock, who seems to have the on of the most talented R&D teams of the market. This time, they don't bring a motherboard with agp/pci-e or support for different types of memory, this time they cracked the Crossfire code. Yes, it's now possible to run Crossfire on Nvidia chipset based motherboard. Apparently, it only took them three days to figure out the bios modifications necessary to enable crossfire ... impressive. Underneath you find the behind-the-scene pictures of the system running:

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    Comment from leeghoofd @ 2009/03/14
    At the boss aka Jmke :

    On the gainward page : We're expecting GHL editions soon,... :isn't that GLH editions ( GOES LIKE HELL ?)
    Comment from Massman @ 2009/03/14
    fixed

     

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