Gigabyte G1-975X and ASUS P5N32-SLI Shootout

T-break takes a look at two motherboards for the Pentium platform that are being targeted as gaming boards, the Gigabyte G1-975X (Intel 975X) and the ASUS P4N32-SLI Deluxe (NVIDIA nForce X16):

Feature-wise, we like the ASUS board better mainly because it has SLI. While the Gigabyte board supports CrossFire and has Creative audio onboard, we feel that SLI is a better solution for now and you can always add your preferred audio card in one of the expansion slots. ASUS also offers dual Gigabit Network controllers and an additional SATA controller allowing you to hook a total of ten storage devices compared to Gigabyte’s eight.

If we were to chose either of these boards as our home server, it would definitely be the Gigabyte simply because its based on an Intel chipset. However, if we were to use one of these boards as an everyday machine that we game on as well then it would be the ASUS.

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