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  • Review: ABIT AN7

    3 January 2004, 00:00

    ...µGuru and NF7-S combine to give ABIT a new excuse for a product. Let's see if anything has changed from the base NF7-S specification in the transition to AN7...

  • Review: EPoX EP-4PLAI

    30 December 2003, 00:00

    It's a very bare package and it feels like unless you're on a really tight budget, you'd get much better value for a little more investment higher up the P4 ...

  • Review: Albatron K8X800 Pro II

    19 December 2003, 00:00

    You know that feeling of disappointment you get when you're really excited about something that seems so promising, only to be let down by a couple of niggling little details? ...

  • Review: ABIT KV8-MAX3 S754

    4 December 2003, 00:00

    ABIT's first stab at S754 glory is a decent enough attempt. We'd prefer a revised layout that makes installation easier and a newer BIOS that uses AMD's Cool'n'Quiet tech. to ...

  • Review: ABIT AI7 Springdale

    1 December 2003, 00:00

    In summary, a new twist on a proven formula. The AI7 is a decent and stable board. The problem is that there's plenty of those floating around. Add a PAT-like ...

  • Review: Biostar K8VHA Pro vs. K8NHA Pro

    23 November 2003, 00:00

    Two boards that highlight the power of the Athlon 64 3200+ to the fullest. Both are extremely fast and carry a reasonable feature set. Yet we feel as if both ...

  • Review: DFI LanParty NFII Ultra B

    23 November 2003, 00:00

    4 port SATA, lots of USB2.0 and FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet, the FrontX and Transpo hardware, class topping Socket A performance, excellent audio, attractive looks. I'm struggling to think what else ...

  • Review: VIA PT880

    18 November 2003, 00:00

    VIA has come into the dual-channel game a little late for it to make a major impact immediately. It needs to ensure that partners utilise the best parts of the ...

  • Review: Biostar M7NCG 400 and K8NHA-M mATX boards

    11 November 2003, 00:00

    I believe we\'ve proved that it\'s a fallacy to state microATX boards cannot compete with full-blown desktop offerings in most respects. Manufacturers have become acutely aware that the form factor ...

  • Review: DFI 865PE INFINITY

    16 October 2003, 00:00

    It\'s very fast, stable, feature rich and should be aggressively priced. If DFI can iron out one or two presentation and overclocking problems it has the potential to be one ...

  • Review: SiS655FX dual-channel P4 chipset

    9 October 2003, 00:00

    We'll wait on retail examples' performance before passing judgment, but it does appear that there's another viable proposition for users demanding dual-channel power from Intel's latest CPUs. It's just a ...

  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 3200 , VIA K8T800, nForce3 150

    6 October 2003, 00:00

    It\'s far too early to say which chipset complements the Athlon 64 better. What's clear is that AMD has risen to a new performance plane with the Athlon 64. Multiplier ...

  • NVIDIA Crush K8 Solution

    18 September 2003, 00:00

    We got sent in some shots of the latest NF3 Pro silicon - we can't comment on performance since we have some of the silicon in for real testing but ...

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  • Review: EPoX 8RDA3G nForce2 Ultra 400

    18 September 2003, 00:00

    Excepting a couple of idiosyncratic features exhibited by the sample board (FSB fluctuation in Windows and under-volting), the 8RDA3G is an decent introduction into NVIDIA nForce2 power. If your budget ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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' ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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