Gigabyte Responds to Intel's Exit from Desktop Motherboards

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[citation][nom]tourist[/nom]What about APU"s ?[/citation]
Exactly. Some people are only thinking about uber-gamers who want to play the absolute highest-end games with everything maxed out and forget that the casual and non-gamers account for the lions' share of the desktop PC market.

AMD's Trinity APUs are the first generation of truly viable IGPs for low-end and even some mid-range gaming and future generations from both AMD and Intel should get much better. However, mainstream IGPs will quickly hit a ceiling from dual-channel memory controllers.

If AMD/Intel want to get really serious with IGP performance in about two years from now, they will likely have to step up to quad-channel DDR4 at 2.4GT/s or use eDRAM.

 

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[citation][nom]joebob2000[/nom]full ATX will be the full tower case of the early 2000's: sure you can get one but why the **** would you want to? MicroITX is the new reference size, even miniATX/microATX is too big for modern designs. Why would you want to take up so much space, when the CPU die basically does everything from video to networking, audio, and the rest?[/citation]
Because you may want to put an optical drive and a few hard drives inside that case, I have a relatively chunky MicroITX case I use as a HTPC and can only fit 1 x 3.5" HDD, 1 x SSD and a DVD drive, I would like it to have 2 x 3.5" HDD
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No such thing as one-size-fits-all anymore, die shrinks are more to do with power efficiency and transistor density than saving space

 

[Non-Euclidean]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Because you may want to put an optical drive and a few hard drives inside that case, I have a relatively chunky MicroITX case I use as a HTPC and can only fit 1 x 3.5" HDD, 1 x SSD and a DVD drive, I would like it to have 2 x 3.5" HDD...No such thing as one-size-fits-all anymore, die shrinks are more to do with power efficiency and transistor density than saving space[/citation]

No, but there is a one-size fits 95%, and that isnt full ATX. For the majority of people, something the form factor a mac mini will do fine for them. Load it up (SSD boot/1TB internal/8-16G RAM/4000 series graphics) and that will be all they ever need. Heck, I am getting a Synology NAS for storage so I can access from all PCs/Tablet/Phone, so I dont want more drives inside the PC.

Quit thinking 1990s. I know. I built 5 machines (DX4-120,Dual P300,K7,Athlon 64,Phenom x4 955) and each was a full tower. I am most impressed by my tiny Mac Mini (i5 2.5G) that shreds the W7 Phenom while running MakeMKV and Handbrake simultaneously. Its an incredible all-in-one solution which will solve a lot of peoples needs, and take up marginal space instead.

Storm Sniper PC 2.8 cubic feet/80K cubic cm
Mac Mini .048 cubic feet/1.3K cubic cm

There is the reason that Intel is leaving the desktop MB market. And if all you have is "I can put more crap in mine" you are babbling about what 5% max of the market needs. Congratulations on being 5% correct.

 

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Anyone remember the article on Tom's about Intel's MB test lab? They had sound tests (for ringing chokes), EMI tests, static discharge tests, shipping vibration damage tests, and who knows what else. How much similar testing do you think ASrock, ECS, Foxconn, etc. perform on their own designs?

I have an Intel D955XBK from 2005. It has one cap that is a little worse for wear from a wiring mistake I made, but is otherwise still going strong. That, even after sitting in a media cabinet for 5 years overheating, running 24x7.

I have a Foxconn A9DA. After the experiences I've had with this board, I will think carefully before I consider buying another Foxconn. The BIOS caused windows to crash with 16 GB installed, among other things.

I also have an ASrock Z77 Pro or something like that. Fugly Fatal1ty branding aside, this board too has some bugs. BIOS / UEFI doesn't recognize wireless keyboards, for starters, while the D955XBK did. Board design is clearly lower quality. This board gave me a true sense of "you don't know what you've got until it's gone." Flimsy board, circuit devices on underside, mediocre layout, buggy UEFI. And bit-streaming protected audio still doesn't work. If there had been a comparable Intel board with the features I needed at the time I bought this, I would have gotten that instead. In a heartbeat.

The nice thing about having a company like Intel in the market is that they helped keep the other board makers honest. If other makers' quality dropped too far, Intel was like a safety net that customers could fall back on and the demand shift would cause other makers to rethink their quality levels. With Intel gone, there is no such board maker out there.

 

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who ever buy intel motherboard...they are more like second tier.

 

[f-14]

interesting how gigabyte is making it sounds like intel will no longer be making motherboards they already have from 'no longer engineering new motherboards' and trying to give gigabytes sales team an easy win.

 

[classicmicro]

You idiots that dish Intel motherboards are probably hobbyists, and to the gentleman that has built a hundred non-Intel systems, well I've built probably thousands since joining Intel IPD program. Yes there are other good motherboards, and over the years there have been some Intel motherboards not as good as others, but Intel brings top or near-top reliability, best compatibility testing, best warranty procedure, best warranty, and best overall support to the system builder community. I am very disappointed they are exiting this market, I think they began offering TOO many motherboard choices in recent years and should have stayed in this business with at least their business series products. Their leadership will be missed.

 

[ibjeepr]

You idiots that dish Intel motherboards are probably hobbyists, and to the gentleman that has built a hundred non-Intel systems, well I've built probably thousands since joining Intel IPD program. Yes there are other good motherboards, and over the years there have been some Intel motherboards not as good as others, but Intel brings top or near-top reliability, best compatibility testing, best warranty procedure, best warranty, and best overall support to the system builder community. I am very disappointed they are exiting this market, I think they began offering TOO many motherboard choices in recent years and should have stayed in this business with at least their business series products. Their leadership will be missed.

Read my post again and the one it responeded to. I think you missed the point of my post. I said Intel was good but the person I responded to said everyone else was bad. My point was the non-intel boards are good as well. As I said, I never had any issue with a non-Intel board (well one now). I'm not taking anything away from Intel.

 

[danwat1234]

Better than the Asus response. It actually has a slightly human quality to it

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]joebob2000[/nom]full ATX will be the full tower case of the early 2000's: sure you can get one but why the **** would you want to? MicroITX is the new reference size, even miniATX/microATX is too big for modern designs. Why would you want to take up so much space, when the CPU die basically does everything from video to networking, audio, and the rest?[/citation]


either you are trying to make a good joke , or you are totally clueless LOL

 

[Guest]

Intel denies its going to kill the motherboard market. Intel then quietly leaves the motherboard market. I'm surprised so many people are missing this connection. The future is NUC folks. Once Intel gets SOC to a point it's happy with, all these other vendors are meaningless and will be stomped on.

 

[chrisafp07]

If you think this was vague read the response from Asus on this topic... it's an advertisement they don't even mention Intel once. I read this after that and was at least pleased they spoke of Intel's importance

 

[peshbon]

never bought an intel mobo since then, so i don't think its a big deal

 

[masmotors]

any 1 saying asus msi and etc are off brands not good and supermicro is best are wrong sm is way overpriced when you can a a decent z87 asus msi etc..