Fall Comdex '98 Coverage
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 21, 1998 11:19 AM EST- Posted in
- Trade Shows
The above picture was the first thing that caught my eye as I approached the Gigabyte booth. Apparently the folks over at Gigabyte got an engineering sample of the Intel Pentium II Xeon 500, and overclocked it to a whopping 600MHz without using any added cooling methods on one of their dual processor motherboards. I received some contact information from a few public relations officials at Gigabyte, and I've been assured that AnandTech should be able to receive some Gigabyte motherboards for review in the future.
Multi-processor motherboards were also big at this year's Fall Comdex, Gigabyte took that trend one step further as they used their booth to display their first 4-way multiprocessor Xeon motherboard, the GA-6GXQU as can be seen to the right. It is a huge motherboard, however one of the most significant features of the motherboard aside from its incredible multiprocessing power, is its ability to utilize FSB settings up to 133MHz, meaning a user can actually overclock the Xeon using a higher FSB setting, can we say Quad 504MHz Xeon Systems? (yep, as long as you can say "second mortgage on your home to pay for it all") |
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Shuttle
Shuttle had a hefty selection of motherboards in their booth, among which were quite a few new faces I had never seen before. As soon as I get back from Comdex I'll contact Shuttle about reviewing some of the boards you're about to see. In order to make things easier, you can click below for full size JPEG's of some of the upcoming motherboards from Shuttle:
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