motherboard

by Rafael Hernandez on September 21, 2005 · 0 comments

HardOCP tested the Abit AX8 v1 motherboard and has some interesting results to share. The board features VIA’s K8T890 chipset for the AMD Socket939 CPUs bringing along PCI Express support and good performance. A solid product, overall, but it’s a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2005 · 0 comments

OCPrices has a comparison of six SLI capable motherboards. The AMD Socket 939 boards feature the impressive nForce4 SLI chipset which makes multi-Nvidia graphics card environments possible. A thorough look at the most popular versions on the market….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has tested a reference motherboard featuring the SiS 756 chipset. It supports AMDs Socket 939, and, presumably, 754 processors while bringing PCIe and SATA support. A nice all-around choice but this option is a little late to the party,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 12, 2005 · 0 comments

HardOCP takes a crack at the Abit AN8 Ultra motherboard. The motherboard supports Socket939 CPUs from AMD and brings in PCI Express action by using Nvidia’s capable nForce 4 Ultra chipset. Their cooling solution is interesting, a single heatpipe pulls…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 7, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard. Asus’ bargain brand, ASRock, selects different chipsets and does things a bit differently. This time around they use the ULi M1695/M1567 chipsets which supports both PCIe and AGP graphics cards….

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 29, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a look at the SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation A9RX480 motherboard. The board makes fine usage of ATI’s Radeon XPRESS 200P chipset and has been engineered with the constant tinkerers in mind. A nice alternative to DFI and Abit but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has the Jetway 939GT4-SLI motherboard on their testbench today. It uses the Nvidia nForce 4 SLI chipset ensuring SLI support for their graphics card lineup but they do things a little differently which may alleviate some dongle card/dip switch…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2005 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a review of the AOpen i915GMm-HFS MicroATX motherboard. The board is designed for Intel’s Pentium M CPU bringing in PCI Express support with the newer i915GM chipset. Cool running, small footprint, integrated video and PCI-E coupled with a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Sapphire PI-A9RX480 motherboard. Sapphire has a good thing going with their ATI Radeon line of graphics boards so they’ve decided to branch out into the performance motherboard market. Quite the looker and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 18, 2005 · 0 comments

Adrian’s Rojak Pot has a look at the Asus PEG Link Mode feature found on their newer PCI Express capable motherboards. The feature is capable of pushing a graphic card’s clock speeds higher than its stock settings which would give…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 16, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has tested a number of different motherboards all of which support Intel’s dual core Pentium D’s. The trio of chipsets, two from Intel and one from Nvidia, may support two cores but they decided to test the…

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