huh! am i missing something? the intel i975x beats the nvidia 590 in almost every benchmark!

i dont see what's so great about this chipset

(it is not clear whether the different graphic cards had anything to do with this-i wish it they had both been tested with the same graphic cards; one ATI an one NVDA in both chipsets)

the reason why the mobo won't do 1000FSB is because of a shoddy south bridge. MC19 they need to put it in the bin

Psionic Wibbly
huh! am i missing something? the intel i975x beats the nvidia 590 in almost every benchmark!

i dont see what's so great about this chipset

(it is not clear whether the different graphic cards had anything to do with this-i wish it they had both been tested with the same graphic cards; one ATI an one NVDA in both chipsets)

I scanned thru this but i didn't get this impression. On several of the graphs i saw theywere neck and neck and in others sometimes the nvidia would peak ahead others it would be the intel peaking ahead. THey seemed pretty evenly matched.

I found the chipset comparison intresting, I think I may hold off on buying an asus p5w as I like the fact the nvidia 590 supports 6 sata drives as opposed to intels 4. Then again 4 should be enuff…

You would have thought that Intel would be able to design a chipset that would be the best available for their own CPU's, but that's not so clear cut as it would appear…

I am very interested to see how well the Core 2 Duo chips do - will they live up to the early test results done on reference a few weeks back? One was cited as an FX-beater, yet was only likely to require an outlay of between £130 and £160…

Matt.

Don't know if i missed this in the report (probably did) but do we know when these boards are available in the UK?

Trevulate
Don't know if i missed this in the report (probably did) but do we know when these boards are available in the UK?

I'm sorry, I don't know about a UK release date. Actually, I'm still waiting for them to announce the US release date, which everone says is “soon.” This and a case coming out this week are the only two things I'm waiting on to build my first custom rig.

Well here is ASUS' nVidia 590 SLi board! only question is…when are they releasing the damn thing!

http://zeus.asus.com/hq/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=337&model=1325&modelmenu=1