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The other interesting feature of this mobo, "Express Gate", which seems to be<br>
a 5 second boot into something that will support a browser, seems to require<br>
Windows, something I will not do.<br></blockquote><div> <br>I've played with this Express gate a little. It actually uses a linux core on a flash chip on supported motherboards and is more generally known as Splashtop.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop</a><br><br>Basically you've got a linux based netbook OS available on your expensive motherboard. I failed to see the usefulness of this on a desktop machine but YMMV especially if your machine is located somewhere central in your house where you might want to browse the web quickly and then shut down again.<br>
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Doers anyone know anything pertinent about this "Hybrid SLI" or should I just<br>
ignore it and use this as a standard motherboard?<br></blockquote><div><br>According to this thread Hybrid SLI is only available on vista (and my guess win7 also). Nvidia's forums are down right now but the google cache has some info: <a href="http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:gpnBzCxEW8QJ:forums.nvidia.com/index.php%3Fshowtopic%3D71052+nvidia+hybrid+sli+linux">http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:gpnBzCxEW8QJ:forums.nvidia.com/index.php%3Fshowtopic%3D71052+nvidia+hybrid+sli+linux</a><br>
<br>Matt<br></div></div>