Event Coverage

Computex 2008 - Part 1

By Vincent Chang - 5 Jun 2008

Computex 2008: Bigger Than Ever

Computex 2008: Bigger Than Ever

Computex has never been bigger, with this year's show spilling over to a new venue, the Nangang Exhibition Hall. With up to 1725 exhibitors from 27 countries, this represents an increase of 27% in the number of exhibitors. This just means more fodder for us as we cover the ground to bring you the latest upcoming products from the industry's movers and shakers. Watch this space as this part is the first of many from www.hardwarezone.com, with the best from Computex 2008.

 The start of Computex 2008.

abit's Booth

 Motherboards have been abit's strong suit and unsurprisingly, the booth was all about that, with the latest chipsets for both AMD and Intel processors.

 The first abit's P45 motherboards that we saw is the IP45-MAX, which has four DDR3 DIMM slots (1600/1333MHz). The rest of the specifications look typical for a P45 board, with abit including only one Gigabit Ethernet unlike some other vendors. abit does include its own patented uGuru and Silent OTES technology. However, there is no exotic cooling solution for the board besides the now common heat pipe based cooler.

 Similar to the MAX except for its use of DDR2 instead of DDR3 memory, the IP45 Pro has a more appealing color scheme in our opinion. The feature set remains however.

 Eschewing the Silent OTES and heat pipes on the MAX or Pro, this is the basic P45 model from abit. There's no uGuru either and the DDR2 memory support is 1066/800 and not 1200/1066 like on the Pro.

 While it has been available already, let's not forget the X48 chipsets amidst all the P45/43 releases. Here's abit's IX48-MAX, which supports up to 4 DIMM of DDR3 1600 memory and has 2 PCIe x 16 Gen 2 slots but no CrossFireX (no dual x8). It does have abit's proprietary uGuru and OTES technologies.

 The abit IP43 Pro has the associated abit technologies but since it's based on Intel's P43 and ICH10 chipsets, there's no RAID functionality. Only one PCIe x 16 is also found instead of two.

 Remove the abit technologies and degrade the DDR2 memory support to 1066/800 from the IP43 Pro and you'll get the base model, IP43. See the trend here?

 

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