Originally posted by: najames
The mob awaits at Gary's front door, it is getting ugly, and the chant has started again.
ROUND-UP, round-up, ROUND-UP, round-up, ROUND-UP, round-up,ROUND-UP, round-up...
I am sorry... little things like this -
Lost the HDMI Test Files - have created a bottleneck.
1. MSI and ASUS provided their full retail kits for their 690G boards, there were differences in the performance and options compared to our production samples. I am about six hours away from finishing the testing. Our MSI board can run decent memory timings now while the ASUS board offers an extremely clean HDMI signal off the riser card that was not present before.
2. abit F-I90HD is still undergoing torture testing. I have three boards, one failed last night at 268 hours, the other two are still going strong. I have several emails on this subject from concerned readers and we are trying to figure out what the issue is with abit at this time. On a side note, unless noted otherwise in the review, all of our boards have to make it to 300 hours before we publish and results are confirmed against retail kits if one was not provided.
3. The new ATI CAT 7.3 drivers made some significant improvements in video quality under Vista so all 690G boards were retested.
4. Intel also released new drivers, some good changes in quality, performance remains so-so. However, we have permission to post numbers with the soon to be released beta performance driver.
5. The CPU choices in our 690G preview article were controversial so we added the 3600+ and E4300 to the mix.
6. I am so very tired but writing has commenced finally and my wife might not file for divorce now. :laugh:
7. I will update everyone this weekend as to the schedule slot.
8. NVIDIA is releasing the 7050 board on 4/16, however, it appears now that we might not get our first review sample until 4/14. I had some lengthy conversations with NV/Biostar and from a performance viewpoint, no real differences, features will be enhanced.