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by Rafael Hernandez on November 10, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a quick test of Abit’s new Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard, a new product created in collaboration with one of the best competitive FPS gamers out there. Highly impressive piece of gear with the usual set of Abit tweaks make…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 9, 2004 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has a look at Abit’s popular AV8 motherboard for AMD’s Socket 939 Athlon 64 processors. The board is chock-full o’ BIOS options and tweaking capabilites which are second to none, which is what makes Abit’s products sought after…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 4, 2004 · 0 comments

DFI has earned a name for itself with its enthusiast/overclocker friendly motherboards and they don’t deviate from their formula with their new 855GME-MGF motherboard. The board can play host to Intel’s Pentium M processors usually found in “Centrino” based notebooks….

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 3, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has quite a bit of info, direct from the manufacturers, on varied subject matter. Their trip to Taiwan dug up details pertaining to new chip revisions from AMD, motherboard chipset popularity, and what we can expect to be on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 29, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech had a chance to toy around with NVIDIA’s SLI feature on an nForce4 based motherboard recently. Extremely impressive numbers for the GeForce 6800GTs although the 6600GTs are anemic performance wise, most people are better off purchasing a single 6800…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 28, 2004 · 0 comments

One of the lesser known motherboard manufacturer’s gets the star treatment from AnandTech today. The Soltek K8TPro-939 comes in at a nice price-point but it still offers all of the great features an AMD Athlon64 board is expected to deliver…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 26, 2004 · 0 comments

EPIACenter has a review of the IBASE MB860 Mini-ITX motherboard which sports the Transmeta Efficeon CPU, one of the first products to use the processor in a desktop feasible form factor. It certainly makes for an interesting mini-PC board but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 26, 2004 · 0 comments

PenStar Systems has word from NVIDIA that “SoundStorm is dead”. The integrated audio processor that was made popular by their nForce2 system chipset appears to be disliked by motherboard manufacturers. Considering the number of problems that crept up in the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 25, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at a somewhat late entry into the AMD Socket 939 motherboard arena, the Epox 9NDA3+. The board’s NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra chipset gives it a ton of onboard features but early BIOS problems give it a black…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 21, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the somewhat strange Asus NCCH-DL motherboard which sports support for dual Intel Xeon processors but forgoes the usual server chipsets and places the desktop friendly i875p chipset in the mix. Surprising performance and price for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2004 · 0 comments

Nothing better than a good round-up of products, this time HardwareZone has gathered seven (7) motherboards which feature a few different variants of the NVIDIA nForce3 250 chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 platform. Thirty (30) pages of details, benchmarks,…

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