Event Coverage

CeBIT 2009 - Part 1

By Vijay Anand - 5 Mar 2009

ASRock and Axle Booths

ASRock's Booth

 ASRock is getting more aggressive these days by keeping up with times and introducing motherboards based on the latest chipsets. Take for example; this board here is the X58 SuperComputer. With four PEG slots supporting Quad SLI and Quad CrossFireX, dual Gigabit LAN with teaming functionality and supporting DDR3 ECC buffered memory, ASRock is not only aiming high but is also aiming at the workstation market with their marketing tactics as it supports single-socket Xeon 3500 processors. With one less Gigabit LAN controller and some marketing fluff, ASRock has the X58 Deluxe motherboard for the rest of us consumers.

 Of course they are still very much into unique board designs for the cost conscious and here we have an nForce 740i SLI chipset based board (N7AD-SLI) supporting the latest Intel Core 2 Duo and Quad processors. Supports 1600MHz FSB processors, dual-channel DDR2-800, dual PEG slots with a switch card to split the single PCIe x16 interface to dual PCIe x8 interfaces to enable SLI, dual FireWire 400 ports, one Gigabit LAN and one eSATA port.

 Over on the AMD side of things, they are also equally updated with this M3A790GXH/128M based on the AMD 790GX chipset supporting AM3 processors and DDR3 memory. The board integrates a 128MB SidePort frame buffer memory for the integrated IGP. More interesting though is its triple PCIe graphics card slots - the first two operate at x8 speeds while the last orange slot manages an x4 speed. Otherwise, the board supports all the expected features from the AMD 790GX chipset.

Axle's Booth

 Would you have guessed that this is a GeForce 9500 GT? Quite a large cooler from Arctic Cooling keeps this mainstream Axle card operating as cool as possible. The card itself has standard specs and nothing out of the ordinary.

 And would you have guessed that this is a GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card? We didn't either till we checked its tech specs.

 Those who require a more powerful cooling solution with the intention of overclocking and the likes, you should consider their better endowed GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card.

 

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