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Gigabyte 8I945GMF Motherboard

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Gigabyte 8I945GMF Motherboard 
Price:

Rs 6,499 (3-yrs warranty) 
Key Specs:

Intel 945 chipset, support for Pentium D and Intel 64-bit extensions 
Contact:

Gigabyte Technologies, Mumbai. Tel: 30616666. E-mail: gigabytesales@gigabyte.in 



RQS# E58 or SMS 131258 to 9811800601

Meant for moderate gamers, this board from Gigabyte is

built on Intel's 945G Express chipset, and supports Intel's latest Pentium D

dual core processor. It has LGA 775 socket and supports 1066 MHz front side bus.

The motherboard has 4 DIMM memory slots that can take up to 4 GB of dual channel

DDR II 667 MHz RAM. It's also 64-bit ready, supporting Intel's Extended

Memory 64 Technology. The onboard videos are based on Intel's Graphics Media

Accelerator 950, which gave pretty good graphics performance. Other features

include 4 SATA II and a single PATA connector but we wished it had two. The

board also has a PCI-E X16 slot for adding a better graphics card, one PCIE X1

and two PCI slots. It also has a Gigabit Ethernet port, three FireWire and eight

USB 2.0 ports. The board also supports 8-channels audio.

Besides hardware, the board also has an Intelligent Tweaker,

CPU Intelligent Accelerator, Memory Intelligent Booster, System Overclock Saver,





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and Corporate Online Management (see the other Gigabyte board review for

details on these). The board also has Easy Tune 5, a useful Windows-based

utility to allow full hardware monitoring and control by easy overclocking and

regulation. Norton Internet Security Suite 05 is also bundled along.

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We used the same tests and test bed as used in the Gigabyte

8I915ME board. It scored 34.3 and 52.9 in the Business and Multimedia Content

Creation Winstone respectively. Though the board had lower BW and MCCW scores,

it outperformed in 3D Mark with a score of 468, and in Doom3 with 7.4 fps at

1024x768 resolution and 32 bit color depth.  We also tested the board with

an nVidia 7800GT high-end graphics card, which obviously shot the scores to 6410

and 62.7 fps respectively. The 3D Mark score with this graphics card was the

highest as compared to that in our October motherboard shootout.

Bottom Line: A good future proof board for moderate

gamers at a decent price tag.

Anubhav Verma



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