AnandTech has compiled a great big list of cases and cooling products that they discovered at Computex, which went on earlier this month. Quite a number of case manufacturers creating BTX products, although many of them now have a big…
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eWeek reports on a bug that could prevent people from booting up their operating systems if they happen to have a new Intel 915/925 chipset based motherboards with the ICH6R southbridge. A bit of a black mark for the company…
Read more Bug Plagues Intel Chipset
DigiTimes has some predictions on just what will drive Intel 915/925 chipset sales this coming year. It seems that Intel will be launching three new Celeron processors at low price points which may drive sales of motherboards with the new…
Read more Celerons to Spark i915 Sales
Motherboards.org has a review of the ASUS A8V Deluxe WiFi, one of the first Socket 939 boards in the market designed for AMD’s latest batch of 64-bit chips. They’ve managed to include a large number of features in the board…
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Sudhian Media has an interview with Thomas Loza, Intel’s Technology Initiative Manager concerning the new high definition audio specification Intel has come up with to replace the good old AC’97 spec. HD Audio should provide for much better standard/built-in audio…
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Hexus.net has a few details and pictures of the Silverstone TJ-06 PC chassis that appears to use a WTX-like form factor where the motherboard is flipped giving the CPU first shot at incoming cooler case air. Innovative design and an…
Read more Silverstone TJ-06 Preview
PC Perspective had access to three AMD Athlon 64 (Socket 939) based motherboards from the likes of MSI, Asus, and a reference design by NVIDIA coupled with a beefy Athlon 64 FX-53 they’re sure to chew through tasks. This is…
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The Tech Report has been busy. This time around they have a review of the Abit KV8 Pro motherboard designed for the AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754-pin configuration. The board sports the latest VIA K8T800 Pro chipset and since it’s…
Read more The Last (Socket 754) Hurrah?
The Tech Report has a small blurb on the possibility that AMD Athlon 64/Opteron based motherboard manufacturers would not be able to use the BTX form factor for its products. It appears to be due to the unique design of…
Read more No BTX for Athlon 64?
Intel has started to bundle CPUs with some of its motherboards in the European market putting motherboard makers in a tough situation. Sounds like an odd move to alienate your “partners” with, but no specific bundles are mentioned and no…
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The Tech Report has a whopper of a 28 page comparison between a handful of motherboards with varying chipsets and a whole bunch of software in order to figure out which chipset manufacturer has the better Serial ATA/RAID performance. Some…
Read more Serial ATA Performance Article
