Six 975X Enthusiast Motherboards for Today and Tomorrow

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The Northbridge cooling is pretty significant and should keep temperatures pretty low even under high loads.

Foxconn has a lot of confidence in its voltage regulators, because it only uses three phases. If you use a processor that draws 100+ watts, each phase has to cope with over 35 W!

This additional PCI Express SATA controller (Silicon Image SiL3132CNV) adds two more SATA ports and supports NCQ.

The 975X7AA features two Gigabit Ethernet controllers by Marvell.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

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