The Tech Report throws everything they have at Intel’s Pentium Extreme Edition 840 CPU. The chip is Intel’s first dual-core “consumer” chip and is capable of mighty good performance. The downsides are that it requires a new, pricey, motherboard, pumps…
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t-break has a review of the MSI P4N Diamond motherboard. The board sports Nvidia’s nForce 4 SLI chipset for Intel’s Pentium 4 CPU with on-board audio being handled by a Creative SB Live! chipset. A feature-rich board aimed at the…
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HotHardware has a look at the Epox 5LWA+ i925XE motherboard. The 5LWA+ uses Inte’s current top-of-the-line chipset offering the highest front side bus speeds for their Pentium 4 LGA775 CPUs. A good looking board with tons of features and top…
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DriverHeaven has a look at the Asus P5RD1-V motherboard. The P5RD1-V is decked out with ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset for Intel CPUs which features reasonable performance from its integrated video. A well-rounded Pentium 4 solution that sticks with the…
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AnandTech ran their suite of tests on an AMD Sempron 3300+ CPU. The chip is part of AMD’s “value” line, for socket 754 motherboards, which features a higher clock speed and SSE3 support. Good performance from the CPU although an…
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HotHardware has a look at the AMD Sempron 3300+ processor. The CPU is designed for socket 754 motherboards and sports a few enhancements over previous versions, such as SSE3 support, but it comes in with half the cache of the…
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AnandTech has some fun at the expense of an Nvidia nForce4 Intel Edition motherboard and an Intel 955X based board. The two were tested using an Intel dual-core CPU making it a pair of powerhouse setups. Nvidia’s solution holds a…
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CoolTechZone has a review of the Abit KV8 Pro motherboard. The board is designed for AMD’s Athlon 64 socket 754 line which has seen a number of new products drop in supporting it. It looks like a solid board, overall,…
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ExtremeTech has a review of the MSI RS480M2-IL MicroATX motherboard. The board uses ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset which happens to have an on-board graphics unit making a preliminary upgrade to this board a little less costly. Another solid MSI…
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PCSTATS has a look at the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboard. The board comes equipped with the versatile Nvidia nForce 4 Ultra chipset (no SLI here) and a solid BIOS setup which allows for some moderate tweaking without going overboard…
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Hexus.net has tested the EPoX EP-5LWA+, i925XE based, motherboard. The board can contently handle most LGA775 Intel Pentium 4s and integrates all sorts of great expansion options. The board is not dual-core capable though so if that’s in your future…
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