Intel D975XBX: Intel brings their Bad-Axe to Market
by Gary Key on January 26, 2006 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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General Performance & Encoding
The Intel D975XBX performance is below that of all other boards. However, the differences between the Intel 975X boards are reasonable with the nForce4 providing excellent scores in this series of benchmarks. Based upon the history of Intel's BIOS releases, we can expect additional performance from this board.
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LoneWolf15 - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link
"Bad Axe" is also a city in the state of Michigan.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Axe,_Michigan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Axe,_Michigan
fishbits - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link
That they chose to call this (or anything else) "Bad Axe" will be both the funniest and saddest thing I read all day.JarredWalton - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link
I think it's a play off of "Bad Ass" - say it fast and "axe" sounds a lot like "ass" to me. Basically, it was a codename from Intel designed to sound cool. Love it or hate it, that's what they used. Intel has geeks working there too, it seems! :)BATCH71 - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link
I really wanted this board to be a SLI-screamer. I guess that is not the case. Next processor will be an AMD.