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  • Review: AOpen AK86-L K8T800 S754 Motherboard

    26 March 2004, 00:00

    If evaluated in context of its intended pricing structure the AOpen AK86-L deserves to be included on at least a shortlist of boards. It doesn't particularly excel in any one ...

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  • Review: nForce3 250 Chipset

    10 March 2004, 00:00

    With NVIDIA giving the 250-series chips a feature upgrade, a 'fixed' HyperTransport implementation, some new disk based ability with the changed ATA and SATA controller, 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet capability to let ...

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  • Review: VIA KT880 Chipset

    9 March 2004, 00:00

    nForce2 Ultra 400 has been around since July 2003, some seven months. Plain nForce2 has been around for over a year. While KT880 may boast better base features than nForce2 ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: Day 2: Grantsdale

    18 February 2004, 00:00

    Intel wants to use the Grantsdale platform to help to increase consumer usage models, the idea of the Grantsdale which can help with the increase of adoption and usage in ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: Pre-Day 1: Chipsets, Digital Home and LCOS

    16 February 2004, 00:00

    In 2004 Grantsdale offers several feature sets which are targeted at the digital home. Following is just a sampling of the upcoming technologies. PCI – Express 16X. The next generation ...

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  • Review: ASUS K8V Deluxe and K8V Deluxe Wireless Edition

    5 February 2004, 00:00

    Our first look at Model 3200+ Athlon 64 on K8T800 was an encouraging one. K8V is a well featured, well presented, well laid out board. It performs well, K8T800 deserves ...

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  • M11 Interview - Chris Hook

    4 February 2004, 00:00

    DR: We have noticed the recent Mercury figures and they show that you seem to have picked up on Mobile shipments, can you confirm the numbers?

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  • Review: DFI LANPARTY 865PE

    29 January 2004, 00:00

    The LANPARTY 865PE is a good board, there's little doubt of that. Is being good enough to warrant a purchase ?. The inherent trouble is that there are many good ...

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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...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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? ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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, ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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.

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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