by Rafael Hernandez on August 17, 2004
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AnandTech has a preview of an interesting motherboard which brings together Intel’s new Socket 775 processors with their previous generation 865PE chipset. The Soltek SL-865Pro-775 allows people to salvage their “old” DDR memory and AGP video cards and upgrade to…
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by Rafael Hernandez on August 12, 2004
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AnandTech has allowed some of the initial “new product launch frenzy” dust to settle and has gathered five motherboards, all sporting Intel’s 925X chipset, and ran them through the usual barrage of tests. They all give similar performance numbers at…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 30, 2004
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AnandTech put together a round up of motherboards that support AMD’s latest Socket 939 processors. They grabbed the top boards from the well known manufacturers and give you the low-down on each of the board’s features and their performance compared…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2004
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AnandTech has an early look at the new, budget line of CPUs from AMD called Sempron. They have a Socket A and Socket 754 version on the testbed today and the results are rather speedy for what’s supposed to be…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2004
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MSI, one of the largest motherboard and peripheral manufacturers, is planning to continue branding and packaging drives despite the rumored sale of its optical drive making unit. This DigiTimes newsbit mentions that MSI’s unit only makes simple optical drives and…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 23, 2004
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DigiTimes writes of Intel’s plans to bundle some of ATI’s video cards with their 915/925 based motherboards. The deal makes a lot of sense as it is somewhat difficult to find PCI Express based video cards even though the choice…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 9, 2004
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The Tech Report got around to testing the Abit AA8 DuraMax motherboard based around the Intel 925X chipset and designed for the new Socket T Pentium 4s. As always, with Abit motherboards, they go the extra mile with features and…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 3, 2004
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DigiTimes has word that ATI is planning to launch a pair of motherboard chipsets with integrated graphics for both the Intel and AMD. The chipset’s graphics performance is expected to be above par with the current choices out there, which…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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TweakTown has the goods on four pairs of high speed DDR memory sticks from the likes of OCZ, Kingmax, Mushkin, and TwinMOS. Many current and future motherboards support dual channel memory which does give a nice performance boost so memory…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2004
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AnandTech questions if RAID 0 is worth the money and effort on a desktop system. There have been a number of motherboard chipsets shipping with RAID functionality built-in and with storage prices as low as they are many have been…
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by Rafael Hernandez on June 28, 2004
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Hi-techreviews has a look at the Morex 3677 chassis, a Mini-ITX form-factor case designed for one of the smaller motherboard products in the market. It appears to be a solid product that does what it was designed for but Mini-ITX…
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