“The nForce 790i-powered Pinot Noir board is now showcased at CeBIT and shows what Asus’ engineers were working to appease overclockers. The board itself isn’t that spectacular feature wise but the cooling solution used for it is. Cutting the backplate connectors to a USB minimum the system features a couple of tubes that go towards the northbridge (as seen below) so as to maybe clear some space inside the case.
Going over the ‘standard’s the Pinot Noir has 45nm CPU and 1600 MHz support, four DDR3 modules, three PCi-Express 2.0 x16 slots and six SATA 3.0 Gbps connectors. The price tag of such a black beauty/beastie is yet unknown but you can bet it will make the X48 boards look affordable. ” -from TC Magazine
-picture courtesy of SX Team Forum
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