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11/14 - Gigabyte has come out with a new motherboard for high performance PCs. So what's so special about a new motherboard for high performance PCs, other than the fact that this one can drive 8 monitors? It's an Intel motherboard without a southbridge, that's what. Readers will recall that AMD is the platform that does away with the southbridge, since AMD integrates its memory controller on the CPU. Previous iterations of the nVidia chipset solution for Intel wed a northbridge and a southbridge via a HyperTransport link as the interconnect. Gigabyte offers one such solution, but also offers a flavor in which the southbridge is missing in action: "eliminating the separate southbridge chip freed up Gigabyte to implement more bandwidth for multiple displays".