From the halways of beta-testing...ABIT's NF5 mobo.

[cadaveca]

Here it is folks....

Abit "The DAN 5up4too1" OC AMD AM2 NForce5z Mainboard SLI PCI-Express x32 DDR2-1066 Azalia Surround Sound SATA II RAID Dual G-LAN IEEE1394

http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/attac...1&d=1140657632
Remember that you saw it here first!

[tiamat63]

No active bridge cooling?
7 SATA headers - nice...

I wonder what this line will be like, ever since DFI snagged ABIT's top engineers' they lost a helluva lot of market share.

[Pitch]

That's ugly.

[cadaveca]

I doubt reatil boards will appear the same...merely a soldermask to expose the leaker, IMHO.

[Favu]

Originally Posted by Pitch

That's ugly.

And I was about to say I liked it!

[Gizmo]

Front Page, Cad! www.aoaforums.com

[cadaveca]

I wonder what nVidia thinks...

[Gizmo]

BTW, have you got any other data on this mobo, Cad?

[cadaveca]

Not really. Pic and a few sketchy details. got more dirt on other things...

[tiamat63]

This is some info I've dug up...

C51XE+MCP55PXE:

Features 2 x16 SLI slots (total 46 lanes, 9 links) and supports FX and Athlon series of M2 CPUs. Six SATA ports with RAID5, dual Gigabit LAN with ActiveArmor and UAA Audio, high overclocking potential reported.

MCP55P SLI:

Features 2 x8 SLI slots (total 28 lanes, 6 links) and supports Athlon series of M2 CPUs. Six SATA ports with RAID5, Dual Gigabit LAN with ActiveArmor and UAA Audio - Havent heard any "personal" details yet.

MCP55 Ultra:

Features 1 x16 slot (total 20 lanes, 5 links) and supports Athlon series of M2 CPUs. Six SATA ports with RAID5, Dual Gigabit LAN with Active Armor and UAA Audio. - Likewise on the acutual use

Then there's another board I'm trying to find more info on, supposably strictly aimed for those on budget, its supporting Sempron M2's....I'll look for more stuff one I get outta class. Then again, I have to work tonight and tommorrow, might just be a couple days...


@CAD

The info about that mobo states '32x".....doesnt that mean 2^16x, or really 32??

[Gizmo]

AFAIK, there is no PCIe x32 specification, and that board has two x16 slots....

[cadaveca]

Originally Posted by Seperah

@CAD

The info about that mobo states '32x".....doesnt that mean 2^16x, or really 32??

to answer:

Originally Posted by gizmo

AFAIK, there is no PCIe x32 specification, and that board has two x16 slots....

However, that doesn't mean there isn't one in the works.


But this board, however, should be 2x16 lanes. Another revision wit h2 chipsets might accomodate 32x32 pci-e connectivity, but the need of such is not there yet...multiple datastreams on each lane will come first, IMHO, similar to a DDR interface.

AFAIK, there's actually 42 lanes of pci-e support on this chipset...or maybe that was ATI's

[madcatmk3]

I actuly like the purple.

[dsio]

24-Pin ATX connector, 4-pin +12V ATX connector and a 4-pin Molex connector?

Tis going to be a lot of wiring on that board! Love the name. Also love the flowers in the solder mask. Thats something I've never seen before.

[cadaveca]

the current gen of DFI board feature EPS12v, molex or floppy, and 24pin. allows for less power traces throughout the board, and less actual circuitry on the board itself.

[Aedan]

Power is usually implemented as power planes internally on the PCB, rather than traces. Traces radiate too much RFI.

[Wolf2000me]

Cadaveca, thanks for sharing man

Maybe someone wanted to use this abit board as valentine present? It looks like it's made for the female hardware enthousiast ^^

[cadaveca]

Originally Posted by Áedán

Power is usually implemented as power planes internally on the PCB, rather than traces. Traces radiate too much RFI.

lol aedan. and how many people are going to know what a power plane is, in compariason to a trace. I'm trying to dumb it down a bit, there mate.

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by Áedán

Power is usually implemented as power planes internally on the PCB, rather than traces. Traces radiate too much RFI.

A plane is going to radiate RFI as well, since it still has sharp corners and such (there are always cutouts in the planes to allow for routing signals that just wouldn't fit anywere else). The main thing about power planes is that they drastically reduce the bus impedance, thus allowing for more efficient power distribution. A side benefit is that reducing the bus impedance makes it a lot harder to generate RFI in the first place.

[cadaveca]

bus impendeance = load



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