HD display slot :confused:

Is it me or do the heatsinks around the cpu area a cheap-looking rip-off of the asus rampage II's heatsinks...I'm also not liking the looong heatpipt to the southbridge - do they really need to be connected, it just looks cheap to me, would be better if both cooling solutions weren't linked...

I also assume that the dual x16 pci-e slots have to run in x8 x8 mode with 2 graphics cards as doesn't lynnfield only have (approx) x16 available? or have i remembered that wrong?

**edit**

also thinking about it that board doesn't have any video out, so maybe the hd video out is for an optional drop-in board that just provides the vga out if you have a lynnfield proc in with an integrated gpu.

also looks like if you have a large graphics card in the top pcie slot you can't change the ram as the clips would be against the back of the card...

Why does it look like there's a SODIMM slot on the right there? :wtf:

ASharpWhy does it look like there's a SODIMM slot on the right there? :wtf:

Intel turbo boost memory, i've seen another p55 based board that had a slot for turbo boost 2.0 memory (i assume that is for integrated gpu's on the cpu die and is faster than ddr3?)

I cannot find the 7th SATA...

I WILL NEVER BUY A JETWAY MOBO!!!! My friend bought one and only two ram slots where working! (there were 4):twitch:

why is there a horse on the board? does it mean the board is full of horsepoo?

Does the horse on Ferrari means their cars are full of horse poo?

Sorry for Off-topic...

sapettoHD display slot :confused:

I wonder who wrote that on the motherboard and thought it was a good idea.

h3llb3nd4I WILL NEVER BUY A JETWAY MOBO!!!! My friend bought one and only two ram slots where working! (there were 4):twitch:

Happens with every motherboard manufacturer. For example this month I have seen a asus board with only two working ram slots, an p5q that didn't work at all and a p5n-t died. All asus but I stand by them because these things happen.

The other friend also bought one but his is worse, only one works now...

h3llb3nd4The other friend also bought one but his is worse, only one works now...

Could be that jetway are bad but I've never had experience with them. I though asrock were bad because the three boards I had with them all died. Could have been a psu issue because back then I didn't think they were important.

A magazine rated a board that was made by jetway 40%

I don't like the spacing between PCIe slots.

jetway isn't bad because you had a friend that probably bought there cheapest mobo and had it die on them. go get a HA07 and tell me its crap all of the early WR's with P2 were made on that gem

well even cheap mobos shouldn't die so easily man!

h3llb3nd4well even cheap mobos shouldn't die so easily man!

Well you get what you pay for.

I had 3 asrock boards that I got cheap and died so fast I hadn't even opened the boxes yet.

h3llb3nd4well even cheap mobos shouldn't die so easily man!

i have 3 they all work as does my Asrock

better P55 cooler right now

as You should all know, most electronic stuff is manufactured in batches, and you might wonder how they test if they're in good condition...
first they randomly pick a product from that batch,
then they test it,
If it works then that whole batch passes the test...
Man, why don't they test every single product??(rhetorical question...)

I think it's supposed to be 6 SATA. It says so on the card to the right of the board.