14 DAY TRIAL // Although the Santa-Clara based company isn't doing so well these days, its channel partners are confident in its technology. As if to prove this, if proof is required, they are releasing a number of products based on NVIDIA's latest chips. One of the manufacturers in question is ZOTAC that, besides having released an AMP version of NVIDIA's GT200-series card, has also announced a new NVIDIA-based board.
Said motherboard is GeForce 8100-enabled and, obviously, provides support for AMD's latest processors. The newly announced board has been built to offer high-performance to those users that need or want to push the limits of their high-end gaming rigs. Thanks to it, users can benefit from the computing power of AMD's latest Phenom processors and NVIDIA's latest GeForce graphics cards. But, in order to let you better understand what the board is really capable of, we should be heading on to its specification list.
The board sports an AM2+ socket with support for HyperTransport 3.0. The GeForce 8100 chipset will provide users with DDR2 1066MHz memory, which can go as high as 4GB on the two memory slots. As far as graphics are concerned, the board features one PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot with two additional PCI slots meant for other expansion cards.
The built-in 8100 IGP will give you DirectX 10 and Shader Model 3.0 support, directly out of the box. This actually means that once you have acquired this card, you won't necessarily need a discrete graphics card in order to run your Windows Vista operating system. The VGA and DVI port are different from NVIDIA's reference design, which includes a VGA and HDMI port but, then again, the former?s board is also a bit larger, when compared with ZOTAC's version.
The board comes to fit Micro-ATX case designs or anything above. At this point in time, little is known on the board's availability date or price tag, but such details should be revealed soon.