Gigabyte's EP45-Extreme, M912, More

[JMcEntegart]

Not to be forgotten in all the netbook/laptop madness happening at Computex, Gigabyte has launched the M912 notebook.

Gigabyte's EP45-Extreme, M912, More : Read more

 

[surt]

...the new board is equipped with Gigabyte’s LAN Teaming technology.

Users need to keep in mind here that the GA-EP45-EXTREME does not have the LAN Teaming technology.

What?

 

[gxsolace]

Uh surt notice the article talks about a series of boards? and just so happens that the EP45Extreme doesn't have it, but the others do. RTFA.

 

[hawler]

gxsolace,
the problem is in the sentence before hey state the GA-EP45-EXTREME does not have LAN Teaming they say they are keeping their eye on the very same board because it HAS LAN teaming. I assume they meant to say the GA-EP45-DQ6 and GA-EP45-DS5 didn't have it while the extreme does

 

[alantlchan]

Someone above misunderstood the article.

The original article does say
"the new board is equipped with Gigabyte’s LAN Teaming technology"
and
"Users need to keep in mind here that the GA-EP45-EXTREME does not have the 4Gb/sec. LAN Teaming technology"
but GA-EP45-EXTREME does have LAN teaming (but 2 ports only)

Please refer to
http://www.gigabyte.pl/news/231.html
(English URL)
and you can find "dual LAN with teaming functionality" in the board

 

[alantlchan]

Hawler,

GA-EP45-DQ6, GA-EP45-DS5 and GA-EP45-EXTREME all have LAN Teaming

GA-EP45-DQ6 has Quad port LAN teaming

The following board of Gigabyte has dual port LAN teaming
GA-EP45-EXTREME
GA-EP45-DS5
GA-EP45-DS4
GA-EP45-DS4P
GA-EP45-DS3
GA-EP45-DS3R
GA-EP45-DS3P

More info:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/motherboard/Default.aspx?CPUType=Socket%20775&ChipsetType=Intel%20P45&IsChked=N

 

[alantlchan]

More spec about Gigabyte P45 boards:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/WebPage/mb_080516_des_advanced/data/tech_080516_des-a-models.htm

TPM chip has not menioned in the above URL, but not very useful unless you use Vista BitLocker encryption which is in Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate only.

 

[slyck]

This "LAN teaming" isn't even worth arguing about. The next step after Gig-e should be 10Gig-e. This 4 port synchronization thing sounds ridiculous.

 

[alantlchan]

Agree with slyck, I think 2 port LAN teaming is good enough for most people

For 10GbE (regardless teaming or not), we still need to wait until 10GbE cables, switch, plugs and etc... to become more popular and cheap enough

 

[Joe_The_Dragon]

4 ports in a non sever board that dose not have true hardware raid?

 

[Karlsbad]

How about getting these damned things in US stores already? They've been in the EU and Asia for weeks now, wtf!

 

[alantlchan]

[citation][nom]Karlsbad[/nom]How about getting these damned things in US stores already? They've been in the EU and Asia for weeks now, wtf![/citation]

Still not available in Hong Kong.