ABIT IX38 QUADGT ETHERNET DRIVER DOWNLOAD

So if you are pushing your hardware to the extreme and experiment with risky settings, you now have a an easy and convenient way to go back to save grounds. Pros Very good performance at its default speed settings; dedicated CMOS, power and reset buttons on the board, ran reliably with a MHz front side bus supports up to MHz. Abit's IX38 QuadGT wears the GT moniker with some justification; it was fast in most of our tests and has plenty of features that will tickle many an enthusiasts fancy. Hardware Monitoring Monitor temperatures, voltages and fan settings in real time and with zero CPU usage. All up though, it's well built, has good features and runs quietly.

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Abit Computer IX38 QuadGT Review: - PC Components - Motherboards - PC World Australia

So if you are pushing your hardware to the extreme and experiment with risky settings, you now have a an easy and convenient way to go back to save grounds. However, the downside is that they are generally more expensive to use and detract from a traditional board design.

In addition this special design utilizes the airflow of the CPU cooler to blow heat out of your case through the back panel.

Their placement is generally excellent, apart from the Firewire pin-out which is in the middle of the expansion ports. The Digital PWM silent cooling heat sink consists of extra slim and extra high fins thereby effectively increasing cooling.

Sign in with LinkedIn Sign in with Facebook. However, it does reduce the component count on the motherboard and allows for a much cleaner area around the CPU socket.

This is very much a board for enthusiasts. View our privacy policy before signing up.

Extendor Silent Dual Pipe Cooling. All up though, it's well built, has good features and runs quietly. Abit has released its IP35 series motherboards, which are not surprisingly based on Intel's P35 Bearlake chipset. Unfortunately, it wasn't all peaches and cream for the QuadGT during our tests.

ABIT IX38 QuadGT - motherboard - ATX - LGA Socket - X38 Overview - CNET

The pin-outs are colour coordinated though, but they don't detract from the overall look and add a necessary differentiation to allow users to tell ethernett they all are.

Abit on the other hand seems to claim that it only has advantages, such as lower noise interference, longer component life span and lower heat output. Then again, if you buy this board, you're probably gong to be too caught up playing games or watching movies to notice the lack of noise, but it'll come in handy ethefnet you leave your PC on overnight.

Reproduction and distribution in any form without permission is strictly prohibited. While the power and reset buttons are located near the qaudgt for the front panel connections, the "clear Sbit button is on the rear port cluster, so there's no need to fiddle with jumpers inside the PC case any time a BIOS setting doesn't go to plan.

Abit OCs Core 2 Quad to 4. Digital PWMs are preferred by some designers because they take up a smaller physical footprint on the board and it is also easier for the manufacturer to provide a far greater precision for voltage adjustments.

Abit has gone with a digital PWM design and this seems to have been something of a fad and many of the motherboard manufacturers we've talked to aren't too keen on using this type of PWM as they claim it's not great for overclocking. There's also a third x16 slot which has x4 bandwidth, a x1 slot and two PCI slots.

Not only are they meant to run far cooler, but they are also meant to offer a smaller voltage drop, ethernrt vDroop, when the CPU is loaded. Digital PWMs offer most precise and consistent voltage supply for reduced power consumption, less heat and increased components' life. Bottom Line This is very much a board for enthusiasts.

Ix388 is a day late with their announcement, but the company also has an X38 board ready to go and it's the IX38 QuadGT. There is no shortage of "GT" and "GTS" naming conventions for graphics cards and motherboards these days, which, much like sports cars, are supposed to attach a hint of speed and reliability to a particular product.

The entire board has solid aluminium capped capacitors, however the digital PWM implementation means there's no need for these types of capacitors around the CPU socket - instead there are far smaller, tehernet mounted ceramic capacitors, which help to make the space around the CPU socket seem a xi38 clearer.

Overclockers at Abit's stand here at Computex etherent managed to get quad core Core 2 processor to a massive 4.

How about a "Grand Touring" version of a motherboard, anyone? It's suitable for gaming, music and movie output, but if you want to record music, a dedicated sound card, such as a Creative X-Fi, is recommended. I need power and lots of it.

Just like the Asus Republic of Gamers, we now have under-lit and labelled power, reset and clear CMOS buttons on board instead of, well, just plain old momentary switches. The copper based dual-heatpipe heat sink with extra slim fins and an additional cooling Extendor maximizes heat dissipation by linking the North Bridge high-fin heat-sink via a heatpipe to on extra high-fin heat-sink.

ABIT IX38 QuadGT - motherboard - ATX - LGA775 Socket - X38

We couldn't get its Windows-based uGuru overclocking utility to run properly on our Vista-based system -- it kept re-starting our machine. Its encoding time in iTunes improved to 48sec. Written by Richard Swinburne.