This is NOT a joke! TUBE MOBO by AOpen!

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http://www.aopen.com/products/mb/ax4b-533tube.htm

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[christiaan]

sorry, old news
Do a search for a-open and you'll find a couple of threads about this motherboard.

 

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Sorry, but the damn search button has been so unreliable lately that I only scanned the top 2 pages of this forum and saw nothing...

...and posted.

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[RWhite]

Hey, a revolutionary product like this deserves all the press it can get...

 

[WATYF]

To bad it still uses the AC'97 CODEC... *cough*crap*cough*



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here's what a friend of mine who's been designing guitar amps for the past 20 years had to say:

Pure bull....They are doing tube preamplifiers which may or may not have any effect, depending upon the design. Since it is in a digital system, the levels are quite well known so I really doubt that it is doing much if anything at all.....

Since they are doing 5.1, this tube has to be in the middle of the processing and not in any power stage where it really counts.....

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