For example, the first revision of Core 2 Duo contained 67 bugs! When reporters paid attention to this fact, this document was removed from the Intel web site. No delays or reductions in deliveries followed. The company just promised to fix 20 out of 67 bugs in the nearest revisions. We still don't know whether the company fixed the remaining bugs, by the way.
We only know that new bugs were added in the 45 nm revision. However, this fact will hardly affect Intel's plans, to say nothing about deliveries of already manufactured CPUs. You have the right to hold up this approach to cheating, but it will hardly damage Intel's reputation.
What's important, your chances to face these bugs are purely theoretical, be it 45 nm Core 2 eXtreme QX or Phenom. What does it mean in practice? The above mentioned QX has a higher clock rate and performance than the existing Phenom products, of course. But despite all these factors, a Phenom processor can be used to assemble a good computer, which will be equal to a single QX processor in price.
In other words, Phenom processors are quite competitive even now they might have been even more attractive, if they had been delivered in sufficient volumes to lower retail prices. Why do I touch upon this issue in a motherboard review? Firstly, as you might have already noticed, we review processors and motherboards in compliance with modern trends to unite these components into commercial platforms in the same section.
It's politically incorrect to skip usability issues of a given product. Thirdly, this very motherboard currently comes at the time this article was written at the lowest price among motherboards on this chipset, which also sounds practical.
OK, let's proceed to the main topic of our review. The central feature of this motherboard, which can be used by MSI as a competitive advantage, is alternating graphics and non-graphics slots. So you can build a Quad CrossFire system even with two-slot graphics cards, for example, Radeon HD with the reference cooler.
However, the other devices in this case will have to be connected to peripheral ports only, because two PCI and PCIEx1 ports will be blocked. However, firstly, you can find almost any device now in the external modification for USB or FireWire. They will be more expensive, but this fact shouldn't confuse users with such high requirements. Secondly, a gaming computer with several graphics cards is not an all-purpose system, and it cannot be approached with general requirements.
It's a specialized system used mostly for games. Users of such systems are likely to have other computers for example, a notebook and a media center , so there is no need to install a built-in TV tuner or a professional sound card in this computer. External Mfg. Website: MSI. Max Page. Motherboard Highlights Photo Gallery Pg 3.
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