facebook rss twitter

FEATURED MAINBOARD CONTENT


ALL CHASSIS COOLING CPU GRAPHICS LAPTOP MAINBOARD MONITORS NETWORK PSU RAM STORAGE SYSTEMS +
INDUSTRY PERIPHERALS SOFTWARE

  • Review: ABIT IC7-MAX3

    16 September 2003, 00:00

    What's clearly evident is that the ABIT IC7-MAX3 is an extremely fast board that packs a hard performance and benchmarking punch. Whether it\\\'s for you depends upon your needs. If ...

    x13

  • Review: MSI KT6 DELTA-FIS2R KT600

    15 September 2003, 00:00

    If MSI can market this board at, say, £20 lower than a similarly specified nForce2 Ultra 400, we can see a number of OEM system integrators opting for it. The ...

    x0

  • Review: VIA PT800 Chipset

    29 August 2003, 00:00

    We feel that VIA needs to ensure that volume chipset supplies are available to its partners, and the partners need to get the boards out to market forthwith. Intel, it ...

    x

  • Review: DFI LANParty NFII ULTRA

    30 July 2003, 00:00

    In conclusion, then, one of the finer nForce2 Ultra 400 boards if features, individuality and bundle is high on your list of priorities. Tentative pricing puts it at around £120, ...

    x7

  • Review: DFI LANPARTY PRO875 CANTERWOOD

    20 July 2003, 00:00

    The DFI's Canterwood heritage and name will count against it when considered in relation to a number of excellent Springdale boards that have flooded the market recently. It's hard to ...

    x0

  • Review: Shuttle AB60RS Springdale

    16 July 2003, 00:00

    Shuttle's task is a difficult one. Because they're not as well known in the U.K as, say, ASUS or ABIT, they have to make their boards better than these truly ...

    x0

  • Review: Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro II Deluxe Limited

    15 July 2003, 00:00

    In the absence of pricing information, a bad decision or not, full marks to the Leadtek, a great end of era motherboard for the Athlon XP platform.

    x0

  • Review: MSI i865PE Neo2 FIS2R

    9 July 2003, 00:00

    Another decent board from the MSI Deluxe stable. Brimming full of usable features and having a BIOS that's a tad scary, it does most things right. This MSI is for ...

    x0

  • Review: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0

    7 July 2003, 00:00

    If you're in the market for something solid, feature packed and that overclocks nicely due to the use of the new chipset, do yourself a favour and put the ASUS ...

    x0

  • Review: EpoX 4PDA2+ i865PE Springdale

    3 July 2003, 00:00

    This 4PDA2+ sample was a prodigious FSB overclocker, a features champion and a paradigm of stability. As long as EPoX launch a BIOS that corrects the Vcore failings found on ...

    x0

  • Review: Shuttle AN35N nForce2 Ultra

    27 June 2003, 00:00

    Bar the odd latency issue, the AN35N is another solid if unexciting board. The trouble for Shuttle is that most of the major players have excellent boards already, so a ...

    x0

  • Review: VIA KT600 / EPoX 8KRA2

    26 June 2003, 00:00

    The VIA KT600 chipset is a step in the right direction. VIA needed to match NVIDIA on pure specification before they took them on from a performance viewpoint. The 'upgrade' ...

    x0

  • Review: VIA KT400A Roundup

    26 June 2003, 00:00

    There's a board for everyone in this review and providing you got here (probably by skipping right up, past the good stuff) without dropping off, I'm sure you've found one ...

    x0

  • Review: ABIT IS7 [865PE] Motherboard

    12 June 2003, 00:00

    ABIT try to woo the potential customer with a number of high performance boards. Do they succeed in their mission ?. The answer is a probable yes. Brand loyalty will ...

    x0

  • Review: ABIT IC7-G

    5 June 2003, 00:00

    IDE RAID, a touch more DDR voltage, a fan-less Northbridge heatsink, and a modicum of extra performance would have made this a sure-fire winner. But let's make no mistake about ...

    x0

  • Review: ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [i865PE] Motherboard

    21 May 2003, 00:00

    Our first foray into the performance Springdale chipset unearthed a few surprises. It seemed to be stupendously fast when set to SPD (DDR-400) timings at 200FSB, comfortably beating the Canterwood ...

    x0

  • Review: EPoX EP-8RDA3+ nForce2 Ultra 400

    20 May 2003, 00:00

    The 8RDA3+ is still an excellent foundation on which to build an AMD powerhouse of a system. Its considerable merits outweigh the slight qualms we may have. It's fast, it's ...

    x0

  • Review: 3-way Canterwood comparison

    14 May 2003, 00:00

    What\'ll sell each respective board is brand loyalty, features and price. At the outset we alluded to the difficulty in manufacturing a \'bad\' Canterwood. With a wealth of features and ...

    x0

  • Review: MSI 850 Pro5 Motherboard

    10 May 2003, 00:00

    While it's only the first P4 solution I've used, we all have to start somewhere and I would recommend the 850 Pro5 if it fits your present and future expansion ...

    x

  • Review: Shuttle AB48PN i845PE 800FSB

    28 April 2003, 00:00

    In summary, a stable, potentially fast motherboard that should appeal to system integrators and budget-orientated enthusiasts. A little voltage adjustment and a slightly better package would have made it that ...

    x0

  • Review: Intel i875P Canterwood

    14 April 2003, 00:00

    The Canterwood, in summary, gives the P4 a definitive performance advantage of its arch-rival. It's also both faster and more feature rich than the present Granite-Bay motherboard. High performance has ...

    x0

  • Review: Shuttle MN31N micro-ATX nForce2

    31 March 2003, 00:00

    It\'s safe to say that a well-executed motherboard based on the nForce2 chipset is going to be a decent performer. The Shuttle MN31N takes all the best bits from the ...

    x0

  • Review: Leadtek K7NCR18G Pro

    29 March 2003, 00:00

    In fact, I only have two problems with this board, the ATX connector layout and the AGP driver issue in Linux. Both I can live with, the 2nd is even ...

    x0

  • Review: MSI GNB MAX2-L Granite Bay

    25 March 2003, 00:00

    As the GNB MAX2 range contain a number of different motherboards touting certain features, our sample seemed to be aimed at both the enthusiast and workstation sector. The former would ...

    x0

  • Review: ABIT BH7 i845PE

    18 March 2003, 00:00

    Performance-wise, running at default settings of 133FSB and 166MHz RAM, the ABIT BH7 performs just like a well-tuned i845PE motherboard. That's of no surprise as manufacturers know how to release ...

    x0

  • Review: EPoX EP-8RGA

    16 March 2003, 00:00

    The big question is. How could EPoX improve on such a good board? – Well the latest evolution, the 8RGA+ does not seem to be a great improvement, but merely ...

    x0

  • Review: MSI 655 MAX

    9 March 2003, 00:00

    MSI are the first motherboard manufacturer we have seen to utilise the new SIS 655 Chipset. This chipset is set to give Intel’s Granite Bay a run for its money ...

    x0

  • Review: MSI K7N2-L

    5 March 2003, 00:00

    I like the board, it's just hard to recommend despite the price. For the truly budget user looking to get in on some nForce2 action it's a decent board.

    x0

  • IDF Spring '03 : PCI-Express

    20 February 2003, 00:00

    Another year another evolution, we have heard a lot about PCI-X recently, and it appears that this technology will become redundant a lot quicker than initially was suspected.

    x0

  • Review: Intel D845PEBT2

    9 February 2003, 00:00

    It's a high quality, fast, well presented DDR motherboard with an above average audio solution and excellent peripheral feature set. It's all about the features with the BT2 and it's ...

    x0

  • Review: Asus P4G8X Deluxe

    24 January 2003, 00:00

    We had already found that the Granite Bay chipset has the potential to overclock well from our review of the DFI NB80. The Asus P4G8X has the additional benefit of ...

    x0

  • Review: SOYO SY-P4I 845PE

    17 January 2003, 00:00

    In summation, the SOYO SY-P4I 845PE is another good example of an Intel-based motherboard. The only trouble is that there's already a number of excellent motherboards that are vying for ...

    x0

  • Review: VIA P4X400 Chipset

    5 January 2003, 00:00

    The P4B Ultra is a feature-rich, stable motherboard. The troubling aspect is that many others from differing chipsets can offer the same number of features and stability with a greater ...

    x0

< MORE CONTENT