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  • HEXUS.opinion: Never mind the hyperbole

    20 July 2005, 00:00

    Yes, this is the industry where everybody's a "leader" and you can always add another superlative or make up a new technology by (cleverly?) combining two words that are completely ...

  • Review: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI S939 Motherboard

    28 June 2005, 00:00

    Think carefully about what you want from a S939 board. If it's features above all else, look elsewhere, frankly. If it's the promise of sky-high overclocks and care and attention ...

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  • Review: EPoX EP-9NPA+ SLI Motherboard

    26 June 2005, 00:00

    Priced at around £105, the 9NPA+ SLI matches other manufacturers\' similarly priced efforts in both features and performance, making it worthy of consideration if you want a fast, stable board ...

  • ECS Production Tour 2005: How to build a mainboard, ECS style

    24 June 2005, 00:00

    I hope you've enjoyed the quick tour around Biloda and ECSM, to see how ECS make a mainboard from PCB upwards. Their staff work extremely hard, and to the highest ...

  • Computex 2005: MSI 64 and dual core

    5 June 2005, 00:00

    With the 955X Platinum mainboard, MSI are utilizing the 955X ICH7R chipset o give full support for the Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 EM64T processor along with Dual Core and Celeron ...

  • Computex 2005: Jetway puts Socket 754 and 939 on the same mainboard

    3 June 2005, 00:00

    Last of all, literally, since this is my last story from Computex 2005, they've got a pair of SLI mainboards for Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 that do away with ...

  • Computex 2005: ECS demos Socket 939 board with AGP and PCI-E, and the other SIMA cards for the PF88

    2 June 2005, 00:00

    ECS, in the middle of a big revival right now with their mainboard business as they create some fine mainboards and show off some serious engineering talent, are demonstrating more ...

  • Computex 2005: ABIT heatpipes the C19

    1 June 2005, 00:00

    ABIT have revealed their cooling solution for the NI8 SLI, with a funky heatpipe drawing off from the Northbridge to a set of fins mounted on the back panel of ...

  • Computex 2005: ABIT ring the changes with Guru Clock

    1 June 2005, 00:00

    With Guru came easy overclocking for everyone as the software would sort out all the settings for your ABIT mainboard without the risk of frying your CPU and saving you ...

  • Computex 2005: VIA K8T890 Pro runs NVIDIA SLI

    1 June 2005, 00:00

    In Hall 4 at Computex, if you look hard enough on VIA's joint show area with S3 Graphics, you'll see them showing off a K8T890 Pro reference board running NVIDIA ...

  • Computex 2005: New VIA mainboards might be needed for dual-core

    1 June 2005, 00:00

    VIA are showing off the dual-core Athlon X2 on their stand, running with the company's K8T890 Pro core logic on a reference board. When I covered X2 on its launch, ...

  • Computex 2005: VIA get SLI working, certifying with NVIDIA

    1 June 2005, 00:00

    VIA have chosen their AMD K8T890 Pro core logic to first bring up SLI, which makes perfect sense from a gamer's perspective, AMD's processors having the general run on anything ...

  • 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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