The Official Gigabyte N650SLI-DS4 Thread

clocka · 24 Feb 2007 at 00:00

This board is due in stock in shops next week, will be a lot more expensive than current 650i boards. its gunna be around £110, compared to £65-85 for the 650i boards that are already out.

i shall update this page when there are detailed specs available.

Minstadave · 24 Feb 2007 at 02:05

Looks good, all solid state caps, but for £110 I want more than 4 SATA ports.

clocka · 24 Feb 2007 at 18:02

minstadave, i have same ram as you, it will do 4-4-3-4 @ 469mhz with 2.15v. so lower you timings from 4-4-4-12 to 4-4-3-4.

BUFF · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:31

I really can't see why abit, Asus, MSI etc. 650is are ~£70-80 & the Gigabyte is £30 more. :confused:

P.S. I can only see 2 fan headers - anyone spot a 3rd?

Minstadave · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:54

Someone mentioned earlier they saw it at £82 for preorder, thats a lot more like it.

clocka · 24 Feb 2007 at 21:06

ive seen it for pre-order for £110, i guess we will see in a few days, think its out on monday, so there should be a few places with it on weds.

BUFF · 24 Feb 2007 at 21:15

Minstadave said:
Someone mentioned earlier they saw it at £82 for preorder, thats a lot more like it.

No, that's the abit FP-IN9

Minstadave · 24 Feb 2007 at 21:26

BUFF said:
No, that's the abit FP-IN9

Are you sure, not what the guy says in this thread from how I read it:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17689574

BUFF · 24 Feb 2007 at 21:42

Minstadave said:
Are you sure, not what the guy says in this thread from how I read it:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17689574

HugeChopper said:
I found one for £82.24 pre-order

The Gigabyte GA-N650Sli-DQ4 is also due out soon

HugeChopper said:
Yes i know the Abit board is, i'm talking about the Gigabyte 650 sli

I read it as he found the abit for £82 not the Gigabyte.

pastymuncher · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:08

The Abit is between £74.99 and £87.99 depending on where you look but this Gigabyte is between £109 and £115. Can't see why though. MSI is bringing out a Platinum version of the P6N 650i which has far superior cooling than the other boards so that can be expected to come in at over £100 as well.

BUFF · 25 Feb 2007 at 14:30

pastymuncher said:
MSI is bringing out a Platinum version of the P6N 650i which has far superior cooling than the other boards so that can be expected to come in at over £100 as well.

Listed on a couple of sites at just over £100 - still slightly cheaper than the Gigabyte.

WJA96 · 27 Feb 2007 at 10:01

pastymuncher said:
MSI is bringing out a Platinum version of the P6N 650i which, from photographs I have seen, looks like it has far superior cooling than the other boards so that can be expected to come in at over £100 as well.

Corrected for truth, surely. Also - do bear in mind that the 680i generic boards all have a heatpipe cooler across the board and none of them run cool without a fan on the Northbridge.

WJA96 · 27 Feb 2007 at 10:05

clocka said:

Given how hot the ASUS P5N-E SLi Northbridge gets with a heatsink twice that size, and based purely on the above photograph, I would have grave concerns about the ability of that board to take much additional voltage through the Northbridge.

SpudMaster · 27 Feb 2007 at 16:16

so this hopefully be out next week? think i'll give it another week or 2 then before deciding on which board to get. All i want is minimal vdroop and atleast 420fsb x9. Heres hoping

BillytheImpaler · 27 Feb 2007 at 16:19

What does this board offer than other competing boards, either on 680i or 965p, do not offer. It seems expensive and not so feature-rich. :confused:

WJA96 · 27 Feb 2007 at 16:39

SpudMaster said:
All i want is minimal vdroop and atleast 420fsb x9. Heres hoping

429 x 9 is a lot, even with water cooling.

BUFF · 28 Feb 2007 at 00:46

BillytheImpaler said:
What does this board offer than other competing boards, either on 680i or 965p, do not offer. It seems expensive and not so feature-rich.

I want to know what it offers that the abit, Asus 650i etc. at 2/3 the price don't

Girdag · 28 Feb 2007 at 10:34

Do any of the 650i motherboards offer more than 4 SATA ports? I'm looking to use 2 SATA optical drives, and 3 SATA hard drives, so this knocks 'em all out for me, as far as I can see.

BUFF · 1 Mar 2007 at 01:18

Girdag said:
Do any of the 650i motherboards offer more than 4 SATA ports?

Yes, but usually the extra is setup as an eSATA on the back.
No problem with PATA devices if you wanted to use 1 PATA optical instead of a SATA though.

SpudMaster · 3 Mar 2007 at 19:36

anymore news on this thing?

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