motherboard

by Rafael Hernandez on September 14, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a fresh look at the very much alive and kicking AMD Athlon64/Socket 754 segment of the market. The Socket 939 chips brought about many doomsday calls for the older platform but this look at three new motherboards points…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 10, 2004 · 0 comments

HotHardware has one of those nifty hardware roundups where they compare and contrast products then benchmark the hell out of them. This time they have a collection of Socket 939 motherboards which accept AMD’s latest, top-end, consumer level Athlon 64s….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 9, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC, once again, gets the coolest gear first. This time they test out the Tyan Thunder i7525 and Supermicro X6DAE-G2. Each board can handle two CPUs, tons of memory, and PCI Express making them some heavy duty server or workstation…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 6, 2004 · 0 comments

TweakTown has tested the performance of 4 different audio cards and NVIDIA’s very own Soundstorm solution, found in some nForce2 based motherboards, in various games and benchmarks. The numbers do give higher priced sound cards the nod in this roundup…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 31, 2004 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at 12 motherboards which all support the recently released Intel LGA 775 CPUs. The boards feature either the Intel 925 or the 915 chipset which gives manufacturers tons of options for connectivity and features they can…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 31, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has taken a liking to the feature-rich Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard for the Socket 939 variety of AMD Athlon 64s. They pack in a ton of features into the board including a WiFi card all for a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2004 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a review of the Lian Li PC-V1000 all aluminum case. The chassis has a somewhat different design with a WTX setup for the motherboard, which theoretically allows cooler air to hit a PC’s process first but Lian Li…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2004 · 0 comments

Burning Issues has a look at the highly capable Iwill DK8N Dual AMD Opteron motherboard. The board sports NVIDIA’s NFORCE3 Pro/250 and when paired with a proper OS to make use of its features it displays some monsterous performance numbers….

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2004 · 0 comments

BleedinEdge has a review of the budget priced Chaintech VNF3-250 motherboard which can be host to a Socket 754 Athlon 64 processor. The board is lacking, somewhat, feature wise, but for the price, it’s pretty tough to beat the board’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 18, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has the skinny on AOpen’s latest small form factor barebones the XC Cube EX915. The company managed to fit an Intel 915G chipset/LGA 775 motherboard into a compact case while maintaining all of the advanced features (sans DDR2) usually…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 17, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a review of the Abit AV8 AMD Athlon 64 based motherboard sporting the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. The usual plethora of expansion ports and connections are all there as well as the settings packed BIOS that Abit is…

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