So, on March 25, 2010, in Moscow, presentations of new motherboards from Gigabyte and processors from Intel were held at the karting club "10 inches".

In general, at first we carefully listened to the news, and then ruthlessly chased on maps.
Who is this and that is interesting - Wellcome that cat.
I will tell you all our way, because he was a bit complicated.
When we met
Boomburum near the metro, we went to the club through the map, got lost, connected to the GPS, he gave us information on how to drive a car. All this was very long and we decided to go the railway to this club.
(as it turned out, it was easier to get to Savyolovskaya station and walk there for 15 minutes on a flat road through Sunrise)
')

Reached the karting club:

While walking to the audience, where everyone gathered, they saw beautiful cars:

And motorcycles. It is a pity that they could not ride

In general, because of all these misadventures, we were late and missed almost half of the Gigabyte presentation (forgive me for that).

To our delight, we were registered and given out gift bags with the following content:

As I understand it, the first part of the presentation was about the introduction of USB 3.0 technology on Gigabyte P55a series motherboards. And about USB 3x Power boost - technology that allows to increase the reliability of the connection and energy efficiency of the ports. And also about Sata 3.0, the greatest effect of the implementation of which will be on the example of arrays of RAID level 0. Also, we talked about the 24-phase VRM-module of the distributed power supply system to ensure high-quality power supply of the CPU for any type of load.
Well, I will say more about the technology Ultra Durable 3 - the thickness of the layers of power and grounding of printed circuit boards is 70 microns.
But the main thing in the presentation was the cooling of motherboards Hybrid Silent-Pipe 2 - this is a combined air and water cooling system with an additional radiator, which contributes to heat dissipation outside the system unit.
In general, we only managed to


And see the awards of Gigabyte compared to other "unrecognizable" firms.

And here the presentation ended.

This is how a new motherboard looks like:

After that, the presentation of Intel began without a break.

Which led Nikonov Vladislav:

It all started with the new processors i3, i5, i7. By the way, 3,5,7 is not the number of cores. These are just model numbers.

Next, we were told about the features of the new architecture. Everything can be seen in the schematic pictures.

And about the compatibility of motherboards and processors with integrated graphics. In general, it is better to have a video card in any case.

And here are the differences between 3,5,7. All architecture Nehalem, 4 threads. Well, the differences - in the photo

During this slide, we were told a story about soldiers who work so quickly, and with the advent of the ensign and the Russian word - they start working even faster.

Required parameters for Turbo Boost

And here is the performance management scheme

More details about the 6-core Intel Core i7

How it looks from the inside (just over a billion transistors)

Comparison with AMD competitor

Humorous comparison, which is not always 3 better than 2.

A bit about peak temperature. Now the computer will not shut down to 105 degrees Celsius. This does not mean that it is necessary to bring the processor to such a state, but if the temperature is about 60, then there is no need to sound the alarm.

By the way, in secret, in June, Intel will release the Core i7 875k and 665k - the first processors with an unlocked multiplication factor for the LGA 1156 socket.
Turning to the temperatures, at last we were told and showed new Intel coolers:


And after all these new products, we all went to ride cards.
Began the first race:

This is the award that awaited the winners:

While waiting for our arrival,
Boomburum and I
took pictures with cups (I'm to the right):

The Grand Prix

And here they are, the real winners of the tournament:

And by the way, so that no one thought, there were girls among us!


Company of the evening:
DeDal ,
Boomburum ,
slammsIn conclusion, I want to say only one thing: I hope that Gigabyte and Intel will continue to hold such interesting, educational and entertaining meetings! And even better.