X58 Roundup: Seven $200-300 Core i7 Boards

jmke · 19th March 2009, 12:22

This instead turned out to be one of the most interesting roundups in recent memory, and for all the wrong reasons. Of the ten candidates previously committed to today’s feature, one manufacturer forgot to send a sample, another missed our submission deadline, and the sample from a third manufacturer never even reached POST (Power-On Self-Test) in spite of several attempts to get it running with different processors, RAM, and graphics cards. If those sound like mundane issues, perhaps you’ll find it interesting that one of the remaining samples couldn’t live up to the power demands of Core i7 overclocking without resetting, another model that lacked such protection suffered catastrophic failure, and a third sample died so spectacularly that it killed our favorite CPU in the process.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...d-i7,2252.html

jmke · 19th March 2009, 12:25

reviewer failure or bad luck? He tried two Asrock X58 mobo's and killed both; Massman pushed it to 222BCLK without http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=get...&articID= 903

Massman · 19th March 2009, 12:31

Not sure what the reviewer tried to accomplish with this board, but it seems it's not the board but the reviewer. Killing two samples is very unlikely to be 'just' bad luck.

19th March 2009, 14:45

that is just too much dam money for a motherboard

Where is the i7 motherboard for people with only 1 optical drive, 2 HDs and a single GPU (that make up 80% of all users)?

Massman · 19th March 2009, 14:47

There are already many products available under €200

jmke · 19th March 2009, 14:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rutar

Where is the i7 motherboard for people with only 1 optical drive, 2 HDs and a single GPU (that make up 80% of all users)?

i7 is not for those people

Core i5 will be for those, with P55 mobo's

19th March 2009, 16:44

Which is a waste of time because its only marginally faster than 775 (afterall, it should not cannibalitze 7 which wasn't the A64 like heavy hitter to begin with), where plenty of good motherboards and CPUs are available for not much money.

jmke · 19th March 2009, 17:00

? afaik Nehalem is clock for clock faster than Core 2 Duo; so imagine a Dual Core with HT enabled with lower power footprint, DDR3 and you got a platform which lands in between current S775 and Core i7.

19th March 2009, 12:22	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	X58 Roundup: Seven $200-300 Core i7 Boards This instead turned out to be one of the most interesting roundups in recent memory, and for all the wrong reasons. Of the ten candidates previously committed to today’s feature, one manufacturer forgot to send a sample, another missed our submission deadline, and the sample from a third manufacturer never even reached POST (Power-On Self-Test) in spite of several attempts to get it running with different processors, RAM, and graphics cards. If those sound like mundane issues, perhaps you’ll find it interesting that one of the remaining samples couldn’t live up to the power demands of Core i7 overclocking without resetting, another model that lacked such protection suffered catastrophic failure, and a third sample died so spectacularly that it killed our favorite CPU in the process. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...d-i7,2252.html __________________

19th March 2009, 12:25	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	reviewer failure or bad luck? He tried two Asrock X58 mobo's and killed both; Massman pushed it to 222BCLK without http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=get...&articID= 903 __________________

19th March 2009, 12:31	#3
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	Not sure what the reviewer tried to accomplish with this board, but it seems it's not the board but the reviewer. Killing two samples is very unlikely to be 'just' bad luck. __________________

19th March 2009, 14:47	#5
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	There are already many products available under €200 __________________

19th March 2009, 17:00	#8
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	? afaik Nehalem is clock for clock faster than Core 2 Duo; so imagine a Dual Core with HT enabled with lower power footprint, DDR3 and you got a platform which lands in between current S775 and Core i7. __________________

19th March 2009, 14:45	#4
Rutar Posts: n/a	that is just too much dam money for a motherboard Where is the i7 motherboard for people with only 1 optical drive, 2 HDs and a single GPU (that make up 80% of all users)?

19th March 2009, 16:44	#7
Rutar Posts: n/a	Which is a waste of time because its only marginally faster than 775 (afterall, it should not cannibalitze 7 which wasn't the A64 like heavy hitter to begin with), where plenty of good motherboards and CPUs are available for not much money.

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