[Pc_Support] Gigabyte's $400 dual-S940, $60-100 mainboard+video rebate offer ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

For those of you who crave performance, Gigabyte is drumming up some
noise with their new GA-2CEWH dual Socket-940 (_not_ the forthcoming
AMD AM2 slot, but Opteron 2xx) mainboard:  
  http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Promos/2CEWH.html 

A very, _very_ modern design with not only the full nVidia nForce Pro
2200+2050 combination, but a full dual PCI-X 2.0 AMD8132 tunnel with
two (2) slots at the full 133MHz (or slower, for backward
compatibility, of course) for the ultimate in I/O capability.  Best
of all, the price undercuts most older designs at $400.

Gigabyte is currently running an offer of a $60 rebate if you
purchase either their $300-400 GeForce 6800GS or 7800GT (not even the
full 7800 GTX), or $100 if you buy a pair for SLI.  So overall this
saves you 10% or so, if you were interested in the dual S940
solution.
  http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Promos/2CEWH.html  

The cost of Opteron 2xx isn't much more than uniprocessor Athlon 64
or Opteron 1xx.  The real kicker is the Registered ECC DDR SDRAM
requirement, which isn't as commodity.  But if you want the ultimate
in power and I/O , this is a far better way to put the same amount of
money that you might drop in an Athlon FX SLI solution into a serious
and true dual Socket performer with a full 32 PCIe channels -- 16 on
each socket.


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Bryan J. Smith     Professional, Technical Annoyance
b.j.smith at ieee.org      http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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