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  • Computex 2005: VIA fuses C3 and CN400 to give birth to Luke

    31 May 2005, 00:00

    Amidst another bout of furious sweating, I slithered along to VIA's stand to have a peek at what they, and S3 Graphics, were showing off. It's a quiet Computex for ...

  • Review: Intel i945G chipset

    31 May 2005, 00:00

    In short, the i945G (or i945P) is a reasonable proposition for all but the die-hard enthusiast who needs the ability to run two graphics cards in tandem. I hope that ...

  • Review: ABIT AN8 Fatal1ty S939 Motherboard

    24 May 2005, 00:00

    £120 is a lot to pay for a motherboard these days, and ABIT's Fatal1ty AN8 isn't the most feature-rich out there. What you're paying for, in essence, is a board ...

  • Review: MSI P4N Diamond nForce4 SLI I.E Mainboard

    22 May 2005, 00:00

    In summary, then, MSI's taken on NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipset and incorporated a sensible array of features that make the P4N Diamond into a true deluxe mainboard. General ...

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  • Review: ECS PF88 Extreme Hybrid Mainboard

    12 May 2005, 00:00

    ECS has brought something very new to the table - a motherboard that carries a number of modern features and one that opens up the way for multi-CPU support. In ...

  • Review: ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE i925XE Mainboard

    3 May 2005, 00:00

    Ask yourself exactly what you want out of a motherboard. Do you want the best feature set for £150? If so, look elsewhere. Do you want a board that, other ...

  • Review: ABIT AX8 VIA K8T890 Mainboard

    26 April 2005, 00:00

    ABIT, then, has taken VIA's K8T890 core-logic and engineered a stable, fast, and inexpensive motherboard that carries a reasonable feature-set. Presentation, as usual, is excellent, and enthusiast-orientated options are up ...

  • Review: Gigabyte's GA-8AENXP-D Mainboard

    17 April 2005, 00:00

    If I have to say something bad about the board, it's that the aesthetic makes me decidedly unwell. Go forth and seek, should high-performance, feature-packed, well-presented Pentium 4 be your ...

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  • Review: EPoX EP-5LWA + i925XE Mainboard

    11 April 2005, 00:00

    The most important decision a potential i925XE purchaser needs to make is whether they really need third-party SATA/PATA RAID and wireless networking integrated into a motherboard. If you do, look ...

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  • Review: NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition

    5 April 2005, 00:00

    NVIDIA has made a successful transition of its SLI tech. over to an Intel-based platform. SLI works exactly in the same way it does on a current AMD machine, and ...

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  • Review: Gigabyte 8IPE775-G 'Springdale' Motherboard

    24 March 2005, 00:00

    But if you've got your heart set on Socket-T in the near future and have decent RAM and at least a midrange AGP graphics card already in your system, the ...

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  • Review: DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2

    24 March 2005, 00:00

    There\'s plenty of decent 900-series boards doing the rounds right now, and DFI\'s 925X-T2 is decent. The problem is, as far as I can see, that other manufacturers now offer ...

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  • Review: ECS ELITEGROUP 915-A Mainboard

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    Not a horribly bad board, but unless you desperately want the GMA900 in order to do dual display with another discrete card, there's no reason to consider it, given other ...

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  • NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI for Pentium 4 - first benchmark results

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    Last October NVIDIA launched its exceptionally good nForce 4 system chipset to support AMD Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Opteron processors.

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  • CEBIT 2005: NVIDIA chats about nForce4 SLI for Intel Pentium 4

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    I had a chat with NVIDIA yesterday in a meeting where they admitted slight frustration at certain pockets of press claiming that nForce4 SLI Edition for Intel Pentium 4 is ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: ASUS - Intel 955

    14 March 2005, 00:00

    ASUS were also showing off some upcoming Intel i955-based mainboards. 955 is to be paired with Intel's next generation I/O processors, ICH7 and ICH7R. More on that core logic in ...

  • CEBIT 2005: Sapphire's GROUPER to take on nForce 4

    13 March 2005, 00:00

    Here at the Sapphire Stand at CeBIT 2005, Team HEXUS has been hard at work dismantling Sapphire’s latest mainboard, codenamed GROUPER. To the horror of Steve Morgan, Sales Director for ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: Everyone's PC Partner?

    13 March 2005, 00:00

    PC Partner is a company that may not be familiar to a great many of you, but its new Chief Executive Officer seems on a drive to change just that. ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: EPoX 9NPA+ SLI

    12 March 2005, 00:00

    Just a short post and a couple of pics of EPoX's nForce4 SLI board. It's got the same feature set as pretty much all the other high-end SLI mainboards, but ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: ASUS - Dual Graphics (inc MVP from ATI)

    12 March 2005, 00:00

    CeBit is a lot of walking. A lot. As a CeBit virgin, walking in my brand new shoes this morning, I passed ASUS's stand and spotted more than a couple ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: AMD or Intel? Same Motherboard!

    12 March 2005, 00:00

    Here at CeBIT 2005, you see innovation galore, but at the ECS stand they have something truly special that stands out as being one of the hottest products of the ...

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  • IDF Spring 2005: Manufacturing Enhancements to CMOS Technology

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    Another Spring, another IDF, without doubt at this IDF we will be bashed about with Dual Core and Vanderpool technology, as well as Intel screaming at us about how well ...

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  • Review: ASUSTeK A8N-SLI Deluxe -vs- DFI LanParty UT nF4 SLI-D

    28 February 2005, 00:00

    Both come recommended, but the DFI has strings to its bow that you will not find elsewhere. Go forth and purchase, there's absolutely no finer Athlon 64 mainboard at the ...

  • Review: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI

    14 February 2005, 00:00

    Buying an SLI capable nForce4 motherboard, you know you are paying a premium for the cutting edge technology it represents, and thus expect a lot for your money. The GA-K8NXP-SLI ...

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  • Review: ASUS P5AD2-E Premium

    12 February 2005, 00:00

    ASUS has taken the simple step of updating its already impressive 925X Premium board with this incarnation. It's fast, solid and overclocks well. Users looking to migrate to a 925XE-based ...

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  • Review: EQS A58XK9-ALF Radeon Xpress 200P motherboard

    11 February 2005, 00:00

    While I wasn't expecting this particular motherboard to offer a plethora of overclocking options, as it simply isn't aimed towards that market, what I would expect is at least the ...

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  • Review: VIA's PT880 Pro and PT894 Core Logic Preview

    31 January 2005, 00:00

    Starting with PT894, setup alongside VT8251, it\'s clear that VIA have created a low-cost, feature-rich alternative to Intel\'s premium core logic products. PT894 supports the same memory, CPU and graphics ...

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  • NVIDIA's nForce4 Professional Launch

    30 January 2005, 00:00

    Socket 940 just got sexy again. Uniprocessor Opteron and Athlon FX systems get PCI Express and arguably the best disk and networking controllers on the market. SMP Opteron gets everything ...

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  • Review: ECS KN1 Extreme

    10 January 2005, 00:00

    Performance wise, the KN1 Extreme is good without being stellar, finding itself unable to match a board equipped with the Radeon Xpress 200 chipset, but still often finding itself ahead ...

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  • Review: Soltek 8KAN2E-GR nForce3 250Gb S754 Motherboard

    14 December 2004, 00:00

    There are quite a number of decent S754 motherboards crowding the marketplace right now. Soltek, I feel, has added to that crowd by producing a stable, solid board which is ...

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  • Review: EPoX 9NDA3 S939 nForce3 Ultra

    1 December 2004, 00:00

    EPoX has manufactured a solid nForce3 Ultra motherboard with the 9NDA3+. The problem that currently exists in Socket-939 land is that nearly everyone else can produce a solid, stable, and ...

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  • Review: ATI XPRESS 200

    17 November 2004, 00:00

    ATI has designed a multi-purpose chipset that will appeal to a wide range of users. On the one hand, the enthusiast has the choice of opting for a competitive chipset ...

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  • Review: ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe

    5 November 2004, 00:00

    We're more than pleasantly surprised by the P4S800D-E Deluxe, in fact we're positively enthusiastic about its price/performance showing. We're happy to recommend it and be sure to put it on ...

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