Pentium 4 Mainboard From Gigabyte

[utopia]

Taken from: http://www.ixbt-labs.com/news/#968600308

As we have already mentioned in our news earlier, ASUS and Gigabyte will be the first to showcase mainboards for Pentium 4 at Comdex in November. We have already told you about ASUS WMTA mainboard. This time ? a few words about Gigabyte GA-8TX (according to OCWorkBench).
GA-8TX is a full-size ATX board for Socket423 built on i850 (Tehama) chipset. There are 4 RIMM slots supporting up to 2GB RDRAM. BTW, all RIMM modules should be installed into the slots only in pars because of the dual-pipeline Rambus architecture by i850. Besides, the mainboard also has an AGP Pro slot, 1 CNR and 5 PCI slots. ICH2 stands for the South Bridge, which ensures 4 USB ports and ATA/100. as for the cost of GA-8TX, it will hardly be low, because i850 chipset only costs nearly twice as much as i815, for instance.

 

[Rand]

Am I the only one that thinks it STINKS that you have to install RAM in pairs with dual channel RAMBUS?

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

With Rambust prices droping the way they are, I think RDRAM will cost about 200 $US/PC800 128 MB module when P4 is released in October. Intel will subsidized each RDRAM equiped computer by about 100 $US, effectively making the cost of 2 RIMMs 300 $US, or about the same as 256 MB of PC133. Whether RDRAM will perform is still one huge question mark however. People are highly skeptical, and I don't blame them at all.

 

[Warrenton]

Well my SDRAM @ 140Mhz 222 on a VIA133A chipset is faster than single channel RAMBUS PC800.

 

[Sunner]

K7 mobos were damn expensive once cause of the high requirements when it comes to PCB quality etc, much cause of the 200 MHz bus.
I wonder what these mobos will cost, with an incredibly expensive chipset like that, and PCB's that probabaly wont be too cheap either.