"The First Motherboard With a Second Processor"

[josedawg]

Abit Releases AI7

Is this more marketing gimmicks or proven to actually help? Lets get Anand to look at this baby.

 

[AndrewKu]

We will follow up with ABIT. Hang on for a bit.

 

[mrgoblin]

There has been alot of info on this. Aparently its an artificial intelligence system made by a taiwanese company and it is supposed to detect the right settings for your cpu. It can sense cpu and such and can accomidate accordingly. Not sure how much this will take away from processor performance but it seems like a waste to me. Then again computers can do things much better than people can so i may or may not be right 🙂

 

[Electrode]

Inadequate cooling and inferior hardware could result in system burnout, financial hardship, or even death!

🙂

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: Electrode

Inadequate cooling and inferior hardware could result in system burnout, financial hardship, or even death!

🙂

GrRrRrrrrrrr... I got beat to it again!

Bill

 

[GTaudiophile]

It looks like some sort of selectable overclocking feature. You select a preset, and the mobo does the rest.

 

[McCarthy]

So do we get to count all chips on a motherboard as auxiliary processors? If so I've got a northbridge, southbridge as well as the CPU...already over two and I don't have this Abit. Hmm, guess not.

 

[imported_Phil]

WARNING: When using F1 performance take the necessary precautions! Inadequate cooling and inferior hardware could result in system burnout, financial hardship, or even death!

Arf.
"Yeah I overclocked too much, God. Let me in..."

 

[AndrewKu]

Basically, it is a proprietary hardware monitoring chip, like MSI's CoreCell. The big difference is that it has memory storage, so that you can save OC settings. This is something that DFI is doing as well. ABIT is also emphazing their "Black Box," which is a feature that users can select to automatically email ABIT FAE so that engineers get techincal details about the error.

 

[jhu]

that's great, but does it run linux?

imagine a beowulf cluster of thiese!

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: Electrode

Inadequate cooling and inferior hardware could result in system burnout, financial hardship, or even death!

🙂

you'll seriously die if YOU do not get inadequate cooling... get an AC

and financial hardship? heat will cause you to bid $50k on ebay for that 1986 carolla with 200k miles on it!

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: DopeFiend

WARNING: When using F1 performance take the necessary precautions! Inadequate cooling and inferior hardware could result in system burnout, financial hardship, or even death!

Arf. "Yeah I overclocked too much, God. Let me in..."

I guess they are covering themseleves from people like the one's who sued McDonalds because the spilled coffee on themselves, and claimed the cup was not properly marked with warnings.