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Review: DFI LANPARTY PRO875B Canterwood

22 June 2004, 00:00

DFI\'s produced another well-rounded motherboard that demands to be shortlisted for top-end S478 machines. Priced in the neighbourhood of £120, it also represents good i875P value. Our reservations lie in ...

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Review: ASUS P4C800-E i875P Motherboard

22 June 2004, 00:00

Priced at just below the £140 mark makes it an expensive motherboard. We feel that it has enough going for it to justify that price tag. It may not be ...

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Review: Albatron PX875P Pro

22 June 2004, 00:00

Overall, provided it\'s cheap, it\'s recommended. You can buy better, there\'s no getting away from that, but you can buy much much worse at the same time. Above average from ...

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Review: Intel's 915P and 925X w/ LGA775, DDR-II and PCI-Express

19 June 2004, 00:00

The fears surrounding the operation of the socket itself are unfounded, at least in this reviewers eyes, my cack-handed penchant for mishandling hardware not troubling the new socket one bit. ...

Review: Chaintech Zenith ZNF3-250

18 June 2004, 00:00

There's nothing much intrinsically wrong with the Zenith ZNF3-250. Great audio. FireWire, external boxes and a mouth-watering bundle are definite plusses. We, however, would recommend a revision B board with ...

Review: MSI K8N Neo Platinum Edition nF3 250Gb

27 May 2004, 00:00

We just need a revised BIOS that allows the enthusiast really push the board to the limit. The AGP/PCI lock is in place but it\'s of questionable value when multiplier ...

Review: ABIT KV8 Pro K8T800 Pro Motherboard

25 May 2004, 00:00

This will undoubtedly be ABIT's cheaper S754 VIA K8T800 Pro motherboard. Expect a MAX3 model soon, and we're sure it'll be laden with various cooling gadgets and a few extra ...

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Review: VIA K8T800 Pro (S940) Chipset

24 May 2004, 00:00

The reference board has shown that motherboard manufacturers will have an easy time in switching between present K8T800-based production to Pro boards. We've seen most major manufacturers produce press releases ...

Review: Jetway N2VIEW

12 May 2004, 00:00

With an onboard graphics core and decent performance from Athlon XP, the N2VIEW makes a lot more sense as a MagicTwin platform, compared to the PT800TWIN. Low cost processors, no ...

Review: EPoX 8KDA3+ nForce3 250Gb

6 May 2004, 00:00

The NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb is a step forward for Socket-754, albeit one that's taken six months to arrive. Fortunately EPoX has done a decent job with the 8KDA3+. The lack ...

Review: ASUS P4R800-V Deluxe Motherboard

17 April 2004, 00:00

Given the street price of ~£75 and the wealth of features on offer from ASUS, the P4R800-V Deluxe is an excellent motherboard if pure performance isn\'t your primary aim. ASUS ...

Review: ASUS SK8V

8 April 2004, 00:00

If you're new to the market and know you want FX-5x (53 is going to be avaliable to buy soon), wait for the K8T800 Pro version if you want to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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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