GamePC has a review of the Asus A8V-E Deluxe. The AMD Athlon 64 based board features VIA’s new KT890 chipset which supports PCI-E cards, but no Nvidia SLI support, as well as an on-board 802.11G wireless chip with antenna connector….
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The Tech Report has a review of the Shuttle XPC SN25P barebones small form factor PC. Shuttle has finally gotten around to creating a performance minded AMD Ahtlon 64 (s939) machine. The system is based around Nvidia’s nForce4 chipset and…
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Hardware Analysis has an interesting article on the perceived “quirkyness” of chipsets for AMD’s various CPUs. Third party companies such as VIA, Nvidia, ATI, and SiS create system chipsets that allow AMD CPUs to communicate with the rest of a…
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PCSTATS has a look at the AOpen n250a-FR motherboard for AMD’s older socket 754 Athlon 64s and Semprons. The board makes good use of the Nvidia nForce3-250 chipset and performs well compared to the socket 939 based chips/motherboards. An inexpensive…
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The Tech Report has a look at an inexpensive Nvidia nForce 4 based motherboard from Foxconn. The WinFast NF4UK8AA features most of the modern features nForce 4 boards are known for but some enthusiast friendly options are notably missing. A…
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HardOCP has a review of the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI motherboard. It comes in with an Nvidia nForce4 chipset and ties in their SLI technology and on-board audio provided by a Creative SoundBlaster Live! chip. The HardOCP gang was able…
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GamePC has a review of the top-of-the-line, PCI Express, dual-slot cooled ATI Radeon X850XT. The board holds quite the speed record in many a game title compared to other single card setups. Nvidia’s SLI technology is capable of performing faster…
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Hexus.net has a look at a motherboard from a little-known company, the EQS A58XK9-ALF. The board supports AMD Athlon 64 (s939) CPUs and uses ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200P chipset combo. Impressive numbers keep it competitive with Nvidia’s time-tested nForce3 250Gb…
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Legion Hardware has a look at the Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard. The K8NXP-SLI uses Nvidia’s nForce4 chipset and supports their SLI technology. A nice feature is its Dual Power System which will surely help keep things stable when pushing this board…
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Nvidia has released a new set of drivers for its nForce4 system chipset bringing them to version 6.39. The drivers feature a number of bug fixes and should work on any nForce4 based motherboard. You can grab versions for Windows…
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Driver Heaven has a look at the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard for the AMD Athlon 64 (s939) CPUs. PCI Express has been a popular feature touted by board makers with new nForce 4 based products to hawk but this…
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