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Thursday, August 11, 2005
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The Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal comes with the ICH7R Southbridge chipset, which replaces the ICH6 on all 955X and 945P boards. The Intel 955X Northbridge supports Intel Pentium Extreme Edition and Pentium D dual core processors as well as any other LGA775 Intel Pentium 4 or Celeron processor. Two PCI Express x1 slots and three conventional PCI slots take care of expansion needs and the GA-8I955X Royal can support up to six IDE and six SATA II devices. Onboard peripherals include a Silicon Image SATA/RAID controller, a GIGARaid IDE/RAID controller, A pair of BroadCom Gigabit LAN adaptors and 7.1 channel Intel 'High Definition' sound....
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Monday, May 16, 2005
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Overall, the Gigabyte's GA-8I955X Royal provided a strong debut for their Intel 955X Express lineup with a very desirable feature set. Overclockers would definitely be happy with the potential displayed too, but bear in mind that the higher memory timings may have helped it maintain stability in this area. The Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal has already begun trickling out into retail channels and users can expect to fork out between a range of US$230-240 for a spanking new board.
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Thursday, May 5, 2005
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Regarding the 8I955X-Royal, Gigabyte certainly has a board that's big on features and great on stability. We thought that the performance was a bit lacking in some areas and overclocking wasn't as great as we've experienced with other boards in the past. That is pretty much in a nutshell what this board is about. Basically, if you're planning on building a system that might act like a server with tons of storage devices, then we would certainly recommend the 8I955X-Royal as it seems like a reasonable solution to keep your data safe.
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