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  • TA152H - Saturday, July 21, 2007 - link

    I see this Asus Blitzkrieg Extreme, but what it is? It kind of gets thrown in there with no explanation, but I can't find anything that describes it, or any mention of it on Asus's website.

    Don't you think you should have at least mentioned what this thing is? I mean, I gathered it's a P35 DDR3 motherboard, but then so is the P5K3. So, obviously something is different, but no explanation is given.
  • Chunga29 - Sunday, July 22, 2007 - link

    What's an ASUS Commando? Originally it was a P5B Deluxe plus $150. I would guess the Blitzkrieg is about the same: tuned for a bit higher OCing, but really just a more expensive mobo that isn't necessary for 99% of users.

    Review forthcoming, I'd assume, Gary?
  • TA152H - Saturday, July 21, 2007 - link

    Show me someone with a Nvidia chipset for Intel processors, and I'll show you an idiot. Why would anyone in their right mind even consider a non-Intel chipset, except for real low power uses (which even Intel does for some of their motherboards, from SIS). Intel easily makes the best chipsets and more importantly they are the standard and almost as importantly are extremely well supported by the parent company.

    Nvidia is fine for a minor company like AMD that can't make a decent chipset, or hasn't chosen to, but for Intel that makes a much broader line of products, which are not only excellent but extremely well supported, Nvidia makes no sense at all. It's not only that, they don't manufacture their products, and now that Intel is moving their chipsets to more modern manufacturing processes, it's obvious they are taking them very seriously.

    It's a good review though, just so everyone can see there is no point in Nvidia. Otherwise, there would be those lingering doubts.
  • ATWindsor - Saturday, July 21, 2007 - link

    Theese are extremly seriuos problems with a motherboard, why not focus abit more on functionality and stability and less on overclocking in the reviews, so the users won't get theese nasty suprises?

    AtW
  • rjm55 - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    nVidia can crow all they want about 1333 support, but the fact is their dhipsets don't support DDR3. With the new DDR3-1600, DDR3-1666, and DDR3-2000 low latency parts that have started shipping, nVidia has nothing to crow about. DDR2 has just become obsolete with these new DDR3 parts and nVidia can only handle DDR2. Guess these expensive boards will soon be on closeout at Newegg.
  • TA152H - Saturday, July 21, 2007 - link

    I agree, but they probably needed to do nothing to this part, just say it runs at 1333 MHz and thus is compatible with the newer products.

    Clearly they need a DDR3 chipset, but then again, what is the point of Nvidia chipsets for Intel processors anyway? It's not like Intel's aren't fantastic, or that they overprice them. I don't see any value-add to Nvidia in this space, they take too much power and offer essentially nothing. But, if they insist on staying, they need to get DDR3 out and fast. DDR2 is obsolete, and their chipsets thus are as well.
  • DigitalFreak - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    ROFLMAO! You have become obsolete.

    Here's your sign.
  • Owls - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    We lined up several 600i motherboards on the test bench, popped our QX6850 in each one, flipped the switch, and then took several deep breaths as board after board failed to run properly. A couple of boards would not even POST, a few worked fine, and some would boot into Vista and then act strange - not Britney Spears strange mind you; more like Paris Hilton behind bars. You just knew that QX6850 wanted to escape its confines and party all night long, but instead it was limited to a few whimpers and constant pleas for help from its socket induced hell.


    Get to the point. You don't get +1s for being funny in a professional article, what a joke.
  • gigahertz20 - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    Go somewhere else then if you don't like a little humor in the articles. I thought it was funny and plus it's not like we pay to read Anandtech articles, so stop bitching about something you get for free.
  • JKing76 - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    I notice that this is not a micro-ATX roundup. I notice that a week has elapsed from the specific day we were told the roundup would start. And of course, everyone in the uATX Results thread has noticed that we've been jerked around for three months about this supposed review.
  • FireTech - Saturday, July 21, 2007 - link

    quote:

    I notice that this is not a micro-ATX roundup. I notice that a week has elapsed from the specific day we were told the roundup would start. And of course, everyone in the uATX Results thread has noticed that we've been jerked around for three months about this supposed review.

    Seconded.
    Actually, it's over four months now. First post in http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid...">mATX Roundup was on 15/03/07....
    No matter, we do have another Intel focussed article to read while we wait for it ;)
  • DigitalFreak - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    quote:

    I notice that this is not a micro-ATX roundup.


    Good job! Want a cookie?
  • JKing76 - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    No thanks, the thrice-promised uATX roundup would be fine.
  • CrystalBay - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    It must get really boring to keep testing MB's without much more than 2% performance differences.... Parity blows.....
  • poohbear - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    quote:

    We thought about hiring a team of psychologists and maybe a good lawyer to help our performance challenged CPU out of this mess but then realized all we needed was a P35 board.


    nice article, but the above was a bit much for a "professional" article. no offense, i like anantech for their technical knowledge not their ability to ramble on w/ half-hearted jokes. do i really need to read all that before understanding all u needed was a P35 board?
  • Chunga29 - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    I actually thought the snarky comments at the beginning was the most enjoyable part. All NVIDIA's marketing hype kicking in bragging about their platform, when the reality is that it's nothing really special. The more pressing concern was the next sentence:
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    ...we should have saved any zingers for discussions about the complete lack of Vista driver updates for our 680i platform since February.

    Okay, so that's just one more reason to stick with XP for me, but seriously are you telling me that NVIDIA's launch Vista drivers were so perfect that no updates are necessary? I'd say their driver teams are probably overworked right now, but regardless if I were looking at Vista that situation wouldn't make me very happy.
  • BitJunkie - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    I've had this board and a 7950GX2 card from nvidia since December 2006 with an E6600 plugged in to it. It's been stable at a 1333 FSB with memory running at 1066 since then all be it with slack 5-5-5-15 timings.

    On the whole it's a fast(ish) and stable system BUT....and it's a BIG but the drivers have been the weak link since I installed Vista in January. Not real change for me in that time, I STILL get BSOD'd regularly, the SLI functionality is borked for the gfx card and up until new BIOS my raid array keept locking up on boot.

    Expecting them to deliver the goods for the newer 1333 fsb quad core CPUs is kind of like pissing in to the wind. I so hope amd / ati get their act together soon, this is getting old.
  • Sunrise089 - Friday, July 20, 2007 - link

    Agreed - I can find benchmarks anywhere, and this sort of article (unlike say the memory wall one) doesn't require a lot of technical expertise - so why not liven it up a bit.

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