Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal NF4-SLI Intel Edition Review

To no-one’s surprise, as a Tier-one manufacturer, Gigabyte is one of the first companies to release a ‘Crush 19′ nForce4-SLI Intel Edition motherboard.

In this exclusive review, PCSTATS is benchmarking Gigabyte’s initial offering, the regally named GA-8N-SLI Royal motherboard. Like AMD-based NF4-SLi boards, this motherboard sports dual PCI Express x16 slots which can be used singly or together with SLi-compatible nVidia graphics cards. SLI for the Intel Pentium4 processor has arrived!

The Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal motherboard has all the makings of a great motherboard. Integrated peripherals include an additional Promise Serial ATA II/IDE/ RAID controller, IEEE 1394b Firewire, two Gigabit NICs, 7.1-channel audio and of course Gigabyte’s trademark dual BIOSes. Also included for good measure is a Bluetooth wireless USB device. Six SATA II drive connections are available, and the board can also support six IDE devices. A pair of PCIe x1 slots provide for future expansion while two more standard 32-bit PCI slots cover current legacy needs.

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