Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 @ Bjorn3D

**MIG-31** · Feb 25, 2008, 05:53 PM

we look back in twenty years, this decade maybe best described as the “Green Decade”. With the global warming becomes more of an increasing concern, we see the tech industry is also doing their parts producing greener products. Today, we can see that the next generation of processors and graphic cards are not only able to outperform the previous generation products, they also reduce the power consumption. Almost all processors and graphic cards on the market today have the ability to reduce their clockspeed when the demand is low in order to reduce power consumption.

One of the hardest components to reduce power consumption inside a PC would be the motherboard. The motherboard is not as simple as graphic cards and processors in terms of power reduction as it is composed of various parts and components. These components cannot be turned on and off on demand or throttle like the GPUs and CPUs. Of course, you can turn off certain ports on the motherboard but that only helps to reduce a tiny bit of power consumption. This is an area where the motherboard manufactures are starting to work on.
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swimtech · Feb 25, 2008, 06:26 PM

Thanks for this Mig-31, this is one of the very first reviews for this board.

However, looks like their specs on the PCIeX16 slots have the same typos from Gigabyte's own site from before the weekend just past.

Feb 25, 2008, 05:53 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 55,770 Rep Power: 444 System Specs	Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 @ Bjorn3D we look back in twenty years, this decade maybe best described as the “Green Decade”. With the global warming becomes more of an increasing concern, we see the tech industry is also doing their parts producing greener products. Today, we can see that the next generation of processors and graphic cards are not only able to outperform the previous generation products, they also reduce the power consumption. Almost all processors and graphic cards on the market today have the ability to reduce their clockspeed when the demand is low in order to reduce power consumption. One of the hardest components to reduce power consumption inside a PC would be the motherboard. The motherboard is not as simple as graphic cards and processors in terms of power reduction as it is composed of various parts and components. These components cannot be turned on and off on demand or throttle like the GPUs and CPUs. Of course, you can turn off certain ports on the motherboard but that only helps to reduce a tiny bit of power consumption. This is an area where the motherboard manufactures are starting to work on. ____________ Review: Bjorn3D __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Feb 25, 2008, 06:26 PM	#2
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 122 System Specs	Thanks for this Mig-31, this is one of the very first reviews for this board. However, looks like their specs on the PCIeX16 slots have the same typos from Gigabyte's own site from before the weekend just past. __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.