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  • Review: VIA VPSD P4B-UR P4X333 Motherboard

    25 June 2002, 00:00

    VIA technologies, the Taiwanese chipset designer, have been working hard in recent years to firmly establish themselves n the motherboard ranks. This they have done with a good deal of ...

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  • Review: MSI 845E MAX2-BLR Motherboard

    18 June 2002, 00:00

    It was only natural for most manufacturers to update their Intel 845 DDR motherboards once Intel themselves announced a move from a 400 to a 533 MHz FSB for their ...

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  • Review: Asus A7V333

    7 June 2002, 00:00

    Asus are well known for quality of build in its products. The A7V333 motherboard is no exception. This particular motherboard is based on the VIA KT333 chipset which has the ...

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  • Review: MSI SiS645DX 645E MAX-LRU

    2 June 2002, 00:00

    It seems as if just a few short months have passed since SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) launched their competitive SiS645 Pentium4 DDR chipset to critical acclaim. SiS showed that there ...

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  • Review: ABIT NV7-133R

    20 May 2002, 00:00

    It wasn\'t long ago that I looked at Abit\'s other nForce based solution, the NV7m. The NV7m is a micro ATX offering with limited expansion but it features everything that\'s ...

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  • Review: VIA P4PA-UL P4X266A Motherboard

    10 May 2002, 00:00

    If you've ever owned an AMD Athlon processor in any of its incarnations, you'll no doubt know all about VIA technologies. VIA, the large Taiwanese chipset manufacturer, have produced Slot ...

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  • Review: ABIT AT7 Motherboard

    6 May 2002, 00:00

    Change seems to happen quickly in the personal computer market doesn't it? It took us over 10 years to break the magical 1GHz barrier in a consumer microprocessor but less ...

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  • Review: ABIT IT7 I845E Motherboard

    2 May 2002, 00:00

    ABIT, the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, recently announced their MAX series of 'boards. The MAX-based motherboards, starting initially with the AT7 (AMD KT333CE chipset-based) and IT7 (Intel I845E chipset-based) aim to ...

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  • Review: AMD 760MPX Chipset Overview

    1 May 2002, 00:00

    Chipset support for multi processor systems is one thing but the CPU also needs to have certain features present before it can be used with a supporting chipset. To take ...

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  • Review: DFI NB70-SC

    1 May 2002, 00:00

    The keywords for this board when you are thinking about purchasing it are stability and high out of the box performance.

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  • Review: EPoX 8K3A

    14 April 2002, 00:00

    So what is the EPoX 8K3A like in practise after all the benchmarks are run and all the talk about KT333 is over? It's one of the most stable boards ...

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  • Review: Asus A7V266-E RAID Motherboard

    14 April 2002, 00:00

    We feel that Asus have done a pretty good job with the A7V266-E. It's well presented, has a multitude of features and is a champion in the stability stakes. The ...

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  • Review: Epox SiS 645 4SDA

    8 April 2002, 00:00

    The Epox 4SDA is rather barren on the features front. We didn't have RAID (athough the 4SDA+ does), decent on-board sound or additional features such as USB 2.0. We can ...

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  • Review: MSI SiS 645 Ultra

    3 April 2002, 00:00

    The pricing of the 645 Ultra is keen, too. We've been scouring the online retailing community and have seen it as low as £76, an excellent price for such a ...

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  • Review: ABIT TH7-II

    3 April 2002, 00:00

    I have been extremely impressed with the Abit TH7-II throughout testing, it has not failed once, and stability has been excellent. Despite pushing the limits of my CPU, and constantly ...

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  • Review: MSI KT3 Ultra ARU

    13 March 2002, 00:00

    We at Hexus like to see just how far we can push our kit. MSI, historically, have not paid too much attention to the overclocking community. This seems to have ...

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  • Review: Shuttle AK-31

    13 March 2002, 00:00

    I noted recently how the tide of products we've looked at here at Hexus had become distinctly Intel dominated with boards and processor keeping us busy. Well it seems the ...

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  • Review: ABIT NV7M

    5 March 2002, 00:00

    Performance using the GF3 in the AGP slot was excellent and the best we've seen from a Socket A AMD system using this processor however I can't see a GF3 ...

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  • Review: IWill XP333-R

    26 February 2002, 00:00

    While focus on VIA's chipset rightfully draws attention with VIA being the main chipset supplier for AMD based systems, we shouldn't forget that another chipset has supported DDR333 memory for ...

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  • Review: Soyo Dragon Plus First Look

    21 February 2002, 00:00

    The updated Dragon with the KT266A Northbridge is an excellent performer stuffed full of features and from this first look we have high hopes for the concluding part of the ...

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  • ABIT Packaging Change

    23 January 2002, 00:00

    Our spies over at ABIT have been working hard to find us some exclusive information about ABIT. This may not be much but I am sure most of you will ...

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  • Review: Shuttle AV40

    11 January 2002, 00:00

    So what do we think of the P4X266 compared to Intel's official DDR chipset and have Shuttle done the chipset justice? The chipset performs on a par with or even ...

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  • Review: Soyo SY-K7V Dragon

    11 January 2002, 00:00

    The concept of 'designer' hardware seems to have sprung up fairly recently due to the increasing popularity of the case modification scene. Personal Computers have long since passed being the ...

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  • Review: ABIT KR7A-RAID

    7 January 2002, 00:00

    Overall it was a pleasure to use, but nothing special, except in the performance. It seems like the extra time spent by Abit has paid off, not in feature count ...

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  • Review: MSI 845 Ultra ARU

    23 December 2001, 00:00

    MSI has taken the chipset and ran with it on this motherboard. New technologies, especially USB 2.0, are a welcome inclusion and ATA133 RAID will keep some people happy who ...

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  • Review: MSI 845i Pro2

    17 December 2001, 00:00

    Overall it\'s another great effort from MSI. It\'s the best i845 board we\'ve seen as yet and since there are no more on the pile at Hexus it\'s the board ...

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  • Review: DFI NB72-SR

    16 December 2001, 00:00

    Overall the feature set is fine and I'm a fan of the ICH2 AC'97 audio provided by the board. Unremarkable performance but extremely solid are the keywords to describe things ...

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  • Review: Asus P4B

    13 December 2001, 00:00

    use with them. We now have SiS and their SiS645 DDR333 chipset, VIA with P4X266 and P4X266A and Intel with i850 (RAMBUS) and i845 and i845D (SDR and DDR)

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  • Review: MSI nForce Motherboard

    11 December 2001, 00:00

    With nForce having been around for a little while but not in serious quantity, we were eager to get our hands on a board. MSI were happy to oblige with ...

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  • ABIT KR7-Raid Scoop

    9 December 2001, 00:00

    This board is due out toward the end of October with an estimated street price of £145 or $160.

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  • Review: Gigabyte GA-7VTXH

    30 November 2001, 00:00

    I eventually decided on an Athlon XP system (I’ve tried a P4 system and although impressed by the whole package found that’s it’s def one for the future and worth ...

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  • Review: Asus P4T-E

    23 November 2001, 00:00

    At the end of my first ever i850 chipset board review I hoped that I'd see more boards soon since I enjoyed using the platform and had a lot of ...

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  • Review: ABIT KG7 RAID

    21 September 2001, 00:00

    It seems that Abit have entered this class of motherboard market later than the others. Epox have had its 8K7A and 8K7A+ boards out for a while and Asus with ...

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