
Board Revision:
BIOS Version: F2 (December 2, 2002)
Gigabyte has really adopted the term "dual" through and through. The 8INXP is being advertised as the "six-dual miracle." This includes: a dual logic processor (Pentium 4 with HyperThreading), dual-channel DDR, dual RAID, dual BIOS, dual power system and dual cooling. While the first few terms are comprehensible, dual power system and dual cooling reveal a curiosity of this board: all significant voltage converters are doubled (dual power system). Half of them are on a little board that sticks up. Gigabyte uses its own fan for cooling. The fact that this is the second fan, in addition to the one on the Northbridge, makes the sixth feature: dual cooling.
Gigabyte souped up the hardware offerings: a Gigabit Ethernet controller from Intel ensures optimal connection to networks; a smart card interface provides a connection for card readers; and an AC97-standard sound system guarantees audio finesse. However, the real attention went to the memory controller: an IDE RAID controller from Promise (PDC20276) was apparently not good enough for the developers, so there is also a serial chip from Silicon Image on the board (Sil3112). Overall, approximately ten hard drives can be operated without additional controllers.
One feature that has not been seen up to now is the possibility of operating a serial device outside the computer as well. Gigabyte includes a special slot bracket for this - very good!
Last but not least, this board delivers the best performance in this test, but it was significantly improved by a CPU speed of 3108 MHz. This is not how to win in a comparison - overclocking is up to the user!

- Introduction
- Clocking Games, Synchronous Transfer And 1530 MHz Arms Races
- E7205, Alias Granite Bay: Technical Details
- Dual DDR: Following The Footsteps Of RDRAM
- Ready For The Future, Thanks To Serial ATA
- The Boards
- AOpen AX4R Plus, Continued
- Asus P4G8X
- Asus P4G8X, Continued
- Asus P4G8X, Continued
- DFI NB80-EA
- Gigabyte GA-8INXP: The Dual Perfectionist
- Gigabyte GA-8INXP, Continued
- Gigabyte GA-8INXP, Continued
- IWill P4 GB
- IWill P4 GB, Continued
- MSI MS-6565, Alias GNB Max
- MSI MS-6565, Alias GNB Max, Continued
- Tyan Trinity I7205 (S2662)
- Test Setup And Details
- Benchmark Results
- Comanche 4
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- Lame 3.92
- SYSmark 2002
- SPECviewperf 7
- WinAce 2.11
- Cimema 4D 8.0
- Summary: Features Win Out Over Performance
- Feature Tables
- Features Table, Continued