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3 Way SLI Revived: Asus Striker II Extreme NVIDIA 790i Motherboard
Chips & More Chips
Written by yantronic and filed under Reviews > Chipsets & Motherboards
Published on March 14, 2008, 12:26 pm
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Slashdot Semiconductors make the world go round these days, so let's focus on the leggy creatures on the Striker II Extreme.
C73XE, aka nFORCE 790i Ultra SLI.
Southbridge duties: MCP55P.
JMicron JMB363: eats up PCIe x1 and spits out 2xSATAII + 1xPATA ports.
Marvell GbE.
Miscellaneous uContoller, presumably for driving the diagnostic LCD.
Winbond GPIO (SuperIO).
Winbond supplies the BIOS ROM.
W38791G: Winbond's Hardware Monitoring solution.