Broadwater Almost Invisible

With Intel so active in promoting Conroe at IDF, we really thougth everyone would have a Broadwater, or Intel 965, motherboard for display at Cebit. In fact there were very few Broadwater boards being shown by any vendors. This is very surprising for a chipset due to launch this quarter.

Abit was the only vendor with an Intel 965 that was photo-ready during our pre-Cebit visit to Taiwan.


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The Abit AW8D-Max revives the Abit MAX name for a top-of-the-line enthusiast board. This should definitely fit a board designed to house the upcoming Conroe processor.

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  • RichUK - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link

    I think the cooling solution on the Aopen board is pretty good, silence and passive cooling is the way forward IMO. I think these days motherboard manufacturers focus a lot more on their cooling designs, which is a good thing because loud chipset fans suck hard.
  • vailr - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link

    Re: "no where to be found"
    According to the Microsoft Encarta Dictionary (print edition), "nowhere" is a single word. "no where" is incorrect usage.
  • Wesley Fink - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link

    Gee, Thanks!
  • DarthPierce - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link

    Am I somehow getting this stuff before it's ready to be published? most pictures arent there, and the next page thing (to go to page 5) sends me to never-never land....
  • Wesley Fink - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link

    Sometimes our posting engine has a mind of its own. The article was posting while it was being entered in the engine - even though Post Status was NO.

    Everything should be up and working now.

    We talk in general terms about the 7900GTX/GT launch in this article, and we also cover the AOpen 975X DualCore board and Broadwater. You should see the full 7900GTX launch article just posted for a complete review of the nVidia 7900GTX.

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