Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal Review - Pentium 4 SLI Motherboard

The nForce 4 SLi Intel Edition chipset is still an unproven platform and the new Gigabyte GA-8N-SLi Royal is the first production board available for review. But if this first board is anything to go by, Intel will be looking at some stiff competition in the motherboard chipset market for its own CPUs.

One of the most interesting features of the nForce 4 SLi Intel Edition is that it has native support for 667MHz DDR2 memory. This is not yet a ratified standard, but Corsair is already offering memory which will run at this speed and faster. The new Twin2X CM2X512A-5400UL modules we were sent to test the GA-8N-SLi Royal with worked flawlessly at 667MHz on a 1066MHz bus with a 3.73GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition CPU.

..Our sample of the Gigabyte GA-8N-SLi Royal might not be quite retail ready, but it put in some impressive benchmark numbers in the tests that I managed to run. The board also has a wide range of features apart from the SLi core – just make sure you need the complete feature set before putting down a wad of cash.

Gigabyte GA-8N-SLi Royal Review
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