GIGA-BYTE GA-P43-ES3G Desktop Board – Intel P43 Express – Enhanced SpeedStep Technology – Socket T – 1333 MHz, 1066 MHz, 800 MHz FSB – 16 GB – DDR2 SDRAM – DDR2-1200/PC2-9600, DDR2-1066/PC2-8500, DDR2-800/PC2-6400, DDR2-667/PC2-5300 – ATX

GA-P43-ES3G motherboard provides the highest levels of performance and maximum overclocking potential. GA-P43-ES3G delivers several advanced GIGABYTE innovations including Easy Energy Saver, DualBIOS design which provide optimized power savings, ultra cooling and ultra safe data protection.

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GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

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The ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo is an inexpensive, solid motherboard for any computer going for $100-150 USD. The P5Q Pro Turbo supports all Intel processors except the new Core i7. The motherboard has 2 PCI Express 2.0 slots for video cards. It has 4 RAM slots and supports DDR2 ram up to 1300MHZ.

La compañía especializada en tecnología y fabricación de motherboard y placas de video presenta la nueva plataforma gráfica integrada perteneciente a la serie 785G. En Argentina ya se encuentra disponible para Placas DDR2, GA-MA785GM-US2H. Basada en el nuevo chip AMD785G, posee Radeon HD 4200 incorporado, ideal para imágenes HD y reproducción de Blu-ray.

La nueva serie GIGABYTE 785G de motherboards, está diseñada para obtener de la IGP (Plataforma Gráfica Integrada) una reproducción más intensa y realista. Proporcionan imágenes de alta definición incluso para los entusiastas de HTPC más exigentes. Con soporte para UVD 2.0, incorpora aceleración hardware y ofrece la posibilidad de reproducir video Blu-ray al tiempo que logra bajos consumos de energía de la CPU. Además integra DirectX 10.1, para el nuevo Windows 7.

Está equipada con un amplio abanico de opciones de conectividad, incluyendo DVI así como soporte para HDMI 1.3, para disfrutar de una excepcional reproducción multimedia de alta definición. Todos los modelos incorporan una interfaz PCI-E 2.0 X16 adicional para soportar la tecnología Hybrid Graphics de ATI, permitiendo combinar la potencia del núcleo gráfico ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrado, y añadiendo una placa de video separada para mejorar las prestaciones en los juegos así como la productividad y la eficiencia energética.

La GA-MA785GM-US2H de GIGABYTE llega a un precio estimado de 110 dólares + IVA.

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ntel still hasn’t planned to integrate native USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gbits/s within its chipsets, and now the inclusion of SATA 6 Gbits/s on P55 motherboards for socket 1156, originally planned for the autumn, also seems compromised.

The additional Marvell 88SE9123 that offers this support is suffering from a fault that will require a new revision of the chip, which means that manufacturers have had to put it on hold for now. Marvell says that the problem isn’t with support for SATA 6 Gbits/s but with PATA!

Does this mean that SATA 6 Gbits/s is going to be sacrificed on the altar of PATA ? This is the curious choice that would seem to be being made by motherboard manufacturers, unless of course Marvell isn’t telling us everything in terms of the bugs that are affecting the chip. If the problem does indeed concern PATA, high end motherboards in 2010 could simply have not used this feature on the chip!

In any case, if the manufacturers want PATA support, they are going to have to find a solution quickly: lets hope that the previous version of the chip (SATA 3 Gbits/s) was pin to pin compatible as this would avoid having to rework the design of motherboards at the last minute.

A recent motherboard from Gigabyte’s MA790FXT-UD5P and the main focus goes on the box is “Ultra Durable 3″ technology. Mobo box featured with dual-Gigabit LAN, dual-BIOS technology and supports plug and play hardware RAID with upto 4 SATA devices.

Layout of this motherboard is very much standard. The fourth Heatsink below the Southbridge is what differs from other boards. It helps to cool down the SATA2 Chip. Unfortunately, there is no connector like the ASUS Q-connector which simplifies the connection of the switches, LEDs and speaker. On each side are the system fan headers. One has four pins so the fan can be controlled dynamically.

It would have been great to see more than two PCI-E x16 slots on the MA790FXT-UD5P. What if you wanted to run three HD4890 in CrossfireX ? Too bad, you can’t, even if the 790FX chip can handle up to four graphics cards. On the MA790XT-UD4P, it is quite understandable that there are only two of these slots, since the 790X chip can support maximum two cards. Besides the Realtek chip is the CD in and SPDIF connectors. A bit more at the right is the Chassis Intrusion connector. Finally, the northbridge fan header is hidden between the top PCI-E x1 and first x16 slot.

The I/O panel comprises a total of eight USB ports, the two Ethernet ports for the dual-Gigabit LAN, the standard and mini Firewire, and the old PS/2 ports. Adds to that the optical, coaxial and analog audio connectors.

Bundled with the motherboard is the standard stuff from Gigabyte. There are four SATA cables, an IDE and floppy cable, and all what is needed to add an eSATA connector to the back of the case. Obviously there is an I/O shield along with the user’s manual and the driver/utility DVD.

I’ve pointed out before that several of the foundations of electrical engineering, especially subatomic particles, are more mysterious than scientist-witches let on. However, I have not made the connection to technology explicit. Careful readers will be aware of my affinity for Luddite critic Neil Postman who, like Michael Jackson, Benazir Bhutto, and Heath Ledger,  is dead. My conclusions about technology are even more unsettling than Postman’s for, combined with his, they demonstrate that Technopoly is actually Cultic Technopoly – for technology in addition to exercising pre-rational control over our culture, is also magical.

My basic claim is that many technological devices in their current states cannot be explained within a consistent historical progression connecting to primitive inventions and discoveries – e.g. fire, the wheel, and language. In this sense technology is irreducibly complex. Put another way: there are evolutionary gaps in the development of technology.

EXAMPLE NUMBER ONE: THE CURIOUS CASE OF CELLULAR TELEPHONES
My first example comes from communication technology, especially cell phones. A long time ago it was discovered that you could talk into a tube and it would help the sound along quite a distance, and someone could hear you on the other end, maybe a few feet away. Then, there was a tangential invention of making lights (fires) light up and little bleeping sounds happen and these could be translated into language. Irrelevant. What I’m really interested in is the development of the telephone. We basically jumped to the development of the telephone. How did we learn that voices could magically – and silently (!) – be transported across great distances, even oceans (!), and come out on the other end completely intelligible? Add to that the fact that millions of voices can exist, perfectly separate and unconfused, in the same tiny thin wire! Add to that the fact that phone lines still work when the power is out and therefore need zero energy to operate! Add to that the fact that phone companies can add people to phone service without adding anything to the wires! Add to that the fact that you could be swimming in the Pacific and run into a phone line somewhere (?). Add to that the fact that there are satallites! How did we get from magically sending endless silent transfigured audio information which morphs back into voices through wires, to magically sending it through the air??!? The air, a.k.a empty space? You’ve got to be kidding me. Sometimes I talk through the air directly, and people don’t understand what I’m saying. What if I try talking to someone in China through the air, where my voice has to make several stops before getting there. Somehow, because of a box I hold into my ear, and some kind of spacecraft allegedly in outer space, and a box in their ear, and big towers with bleeping lights at the top so they don’t get hit by airplanes, they can hear me perfectly. Something fishy is going on here. Where’s the transitional development between talking through a short tube without electricity and talking into a magic box which sends invisible nothings into outer space and back through the atmosphere? What? It’s unbelievable. Wrap your mind around it, you can’t. To fully grasp the massive gaps in the history of technology, consider the diagram below of the evolution of telecommunication.

EXAMPLE NUMBER TWO: COMPUTERS; OR, THE DEVIL’S TOOL
Academics are always making the completely asinine claim that such-and-such was the “first computer,” where “such-and-such” often is an abacus, and occasionally the human brain. Sorry, there is not legitimate connection between some guys playing with beads at a table and Google Earth. There are too many differences which cannot be bridged by any transitional cultural technological fossils. For one thing, computers today use electricity, which no one understands. We know how to conjure it, how to stop it from killing us in some cases, and that’s it. Try having a scientists explain electricity to you sometime. It’s complete bullshit (see glossary), like when a theologian tries to explain the doctrine of the trinity. At least the trinity doesn’t use electricity (usually).  In addition to the sudden transition from non-electric to electric, there is a transition from visible to invisible. We can all understand simple machines, like windmills or crowbars. But many parts of the computer, most everything aside from the cooling fan, are invisible. Look at a motherboard. What do you see? You see nothing useful. Consider the bizarre photographic representation below.

What do you see? Nothing. Some white lines. A lot of spider-looking things. Some blue strips. A collection of things that look like a toy city, like when you’re in an airplane, and so on. Certainly nothing that looks like what shows up on your computer monitor screen. So how do we get to the point where we can make these things? Certainly none of the parts are useful by themselves. Many people will say: we have robots build them, since our hands are too big to build tiny things. But we built the robots in the first place! And besides, the only way we can tell robots what to do is with computers. And how did we know what invisible things to do on a flat board in order to make movies with Matt Damon appear on a shiny screen (which, by the way, is connected via a single wire)?

Computer technology also lends itself to many reductio ad absurdum arguments. For example, it means that the law of the conservation of things is false. For example, when I download the new Regina Spektor album, what have I added to my computer? Nothing. Magnets have just shifted around or something. Magnets, which by the way are essential to Hinduism. In any case, how can magnets produce Matt Damon’s face anyway? But back to the reductios. In addition to it being absurd that I can create something on my computer out of nothing, a.k.a Ex-Nihilism, it is additionally absurd that I could theoretically create a movie simply by moving magnets around, which hasn’t been created yet. According to computer science this is possible.

A third example of how technology is irreducibly complex which I don’t presently have the time to get into is the video camera, which cannot be explained with any coherency. For one thing, video cameras are supposedly not actually recording motion, they are recording frames of still images. This leads to the conclusion that video cameras are not video camera, a rather Orwellian turn of events if you ask me.

Atingir a produção de 3,5 milhões de placas-mãe até o final do ano: esta é uma das arrojadas metas da Digitron, líder na fabricação de placas-mãe no Brasil. Para alcançar suas expectativas, investiu em um forte plano de incentivo a vendas junto ao distribuidor e “alocou” seis de seus oito especialistas de campo contratados, nesses canais. Os outros dois profissionais circulam nos principais centros de informática do país, situados nas cidades de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro.

A fabricante conta atualmente com 12 distribuidores, que trabalham com as marcas para as quais produz motherboards – Intel, MSI, SUPERMICRO, MEGA e PC Ware – e definiu os critérios de apoio a partir do volume/mês de compras das placas-mãe por esse mercado. No total, seis distribuidores contam com especialistas exclusivos da Digitron.

A ação foi implantada em março e gera frutos que vão além da redução do número de placas-mãe nos estoques. A fabricante se aproximou fortemente de seus distribuidores, com um atendimento mais efetivo e a linearidade de vendas também está maior. O volume de comercialização/mês sobe continuamente e traz uma evolução de 10% a 15% de produção mensal de motherboards na fábrica da Digitron, em Manaus.

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