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It is no secret that the Pentium Extreme Edition CPU is Intel’s push on the enthusiast market. The Pentium-XE as we call it supports two cores with Hyper-Threading on each allowing a maximum of four recognisable CPU’s. Now for current games, w...
It’s clear that the battle between the big names is one that is an extremely close race. Gigabyte today has shown that it has ability to produce one of the most feature packed boards on the market as well as back it up with great performance to boot...
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Simple to set up and rock solid during testing, this board is definitely one to go for if youre going to be using the Pentium Extreme Edition CPU. It supports a 1066MHz frontside bus for that CPU and can accommodate 667MHz DDR2 memory modules.
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tbreak.ae Updated: 2016-12-27 23:05:30
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Gigabyte is always re-branding their high-end motherboard series when new chipsets are released. We remember the GT 2004 series, the Performance Extreme (PX) series and of course, their last 8 Sigma series. With the 955X chipset, they introduce us to a...
We would also like start off with the SATA cables again that Gigabyte provides with this board- they’re just awesome. We think that all motherboard manufacturers should use cables like this one which lock into the device and the onboard connecter an...
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Rare jewels (diamond), precious metals (platinum), positions of distinction (royal)... all of these are common themes used by manufacturers to distinguish its flagship products from the rest of the pack. For Gigabyte, the theme is royalty, and the boa...
Great performance, Excellent and useful bundles, Nice overclocking ability and options, Great and unique features (DualBIOS, U-Plus D.P.S, etc)...
Crowding issues near CPU socket, UPlus D.P.S. limits coolers you can use...
My experience with the Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal has been a very positive one. In addition to packing in many great features, the board prooved to be very stable and performed pretty well. I was pleasantly surprised by the overclocking-friendly BIOS an...
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The Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal motherboard is a dual core Pentium 4 processor compatible platform, built around Intels very own 955X chipset.
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digital-daily.com Updated: 2014-10-12 02:27:41
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First motherboards built on the most recent i955X chipset...
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Along with the new Intel Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition processors there came a requirement for a new chipset to go along with them. From Intel, this came in the form of the 955X core logic. We have initially previewed the 955X chipset and co...
The Gigabyte 8I955X Royal motherboard had a lot to live up to being the first of the new dual core capable motherboards to reach us for the Intel platform. Intel’s 955X chipset doesn’t really offer anything new and exciting over...
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hardwareunboxed.com Updated: 2014-10-12 02:27:41
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Intel has recently released a new chipset designed to support the current Pentium 4 Prescott and Extreme Edition processors, along with the dual-core Smithfield processors. This chipset is now known as the 955X Express and is the new Intel flagship pro...
By far the best part about the Gigabyte 8I955X Royal was its overclocking abilities, I found myself wasting away many hours overclocking this motherboard. While I could have shown the biggest FSB reached or the biggest frequency achieved, I decided to...
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