Asus announces new Core 2 Duo motherboards! (Gibbo?)

[Explicit]

There finally appear to be some SLI mobos for Conroe.

http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=3801

Taipei, Taiwan; July 27, 2006 - ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), the worldwide leader in motherboards, today introduced a comprehensive lineup of new motherboards supporting the latest Intel ® Core™ 2 processors - Core2 Duo and Core2 Extreme. From workstations to entry-level systems, ASUS' new offerings satisfy different user demands with drastic performance hike.

Gibbo, any chance of getting these in? In particular: P5WDG2 WS PRO, P5N32-SLI SE DELUXE, P5NSLI

 

[=assassin=]

You could put it in the product suggestions section as well?

 

[Wee]

Very cool.

Got a question about them though. Does uATX mean mATX? Have never been sure about that.

 

[Arc]

Yup uATX and mATX both refer to micro ATX .

The small m stands for micro and the u is normally used in scientific notation to represent micro (although it should have a long tail on it to).

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Yup uATX and mATX both refer to micro ATX .

The small m stands for micro and the u is normally used in scientific notation to represent micro (although it should have a long tail on it to).

It the Greek letter mu. μ Ooh, pretty long tail-y thing.

 

[shadowscotland]

uATX boards also have a different component layout (to reduce path of wires) but are identical in size to mATX - see below

Asus_P5VD2_MX - this is a mATX board

asus_p5bvm - this is a uATX board note location of connectors for drives/power etc

Hope that helps

 

[Devious]

There finally appear to be some SLI mobos for Conroe.

http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=3801



Gibbo, any chance of getting these in? In particular: P5WDG2 WS PRO, P5N32-SLI SE DELUXE, P5NSLI

Dont forget the even newer P5W64 WS Pro with 4 x PCI-E slots

P5WDG WS Pro on the left P5W64 WS Pro on the right

 

[ted34]

The ws pro board is still xfire but from some of the posts at xtreme it looks like the best out there so far - less vdrop than p5wdh and higher fsb's.

Best bit is everyone grumbles about how expensive it is but then say its a workstation board that has some extra features (overclocking) and companies wont hesiate at its price and will just run it at stock. If this is what the board was intended at then why put any overclocking features in it - asus knew loads of overclockers would buy it and it is obviously intended as a overclocking board rather than an actual business style workstation board