This system comes to use when it fits the hardware being tested and represents the lower end of a 3D retrogaming PC. It is fast enough for early 3D titles, but is also very useful for exhibiting CPU bottlenecks when compared to faster systems with the same graphics card. The… Continue reading
Introduction Gigabyte was about four to six weeks later to the market than many other “big players” with their KT133A board, the GA-7ZXR (Rev. 2.1). But unlike Asus, Abit and MSI for example, they made a lot of changes to the vanilla GA-7ZXR (Rev. 1.x), their previous KT133 offering. From… Continue reading
Introduction Prior to the GA-7DXR, Gigabyte released another AMD760 based motherboard – the GA-7DX(C). While the name suggest, that “the R” is just a slightly refined version of the vanilla GA-7DX (which was one of the first, if not the first overall AMD760 based motherboards released in its “C” version),… Continue reading
Introduction Gigabyte’s GA-7IXE4 is a special motherboard in many regards. It is based on AMDs 750 “Irongate” chipset, which was originally developped for the Slot A Athlon “Classic” and the launch chipset for that platform. This also means, that the Irongate is roughly at least a full year older than… Continue reading
