17 October 2005, 20:03
Our quick profile of ECS and trip up to the U.K HQ was intended to show you that sales volume and brand exposure don't necessarily go hand-in-hand in the PC ...
11 October 2005, 13:32
As someone who sees nothing much past the finished retail product, it was nice to take a look at the other side of the fence, where products are launched, strategies ...

7 October 2005, 16:34
In summary, then, NVIDIA's plugged the gap that existed in its current chipset lineup by introducing a few new SKUs that feature integrated graphics. The launch is just an evolution ...
20 September 2005, 00:00
Piggybacking NVIDIA's MCP and IGP announcements today, Biostar has announced an nForce 410 based motherboard.
20 September 2005, 00:00
Tarinder will have the full review for you very soon. Today's announcement merely whets the appetite for an on-paper product with lots of promise.
16 September 2005, 00:00
If i955X still appeals to you, we can recommend both the ABIT AW8-MAX and Gigabyte 8I955X Royal as decent examples of what retail, high-end i955X implementations are all about. Given ...
15 September 2005, 00:00
NVIDIA SLi is most commonly associated with high powered systems with more graphics power than we really know what to do with. However, SLI is also trying to break through ...
29 August 2005, 00:00
SAPPHIRE Technology is launching a mainboard for AMD Socket 939 processors with all the enthusiast-orientated bells and whistles, and performance, it says, is, well, class-leading. The SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 ...
24 August 2005, 00:00
With all of the enhancements in systems today it is a suprise that we still have to use the DOS styled BIOS to configure and give our systems the performance ...

23 August 2005, 00:00
Opening IDF today Intel's CEO Paul Ottelini told Developers, Partners, Press and Analysts about their new Architecture.
Currently Intel have Netburst and Mobile Microarchitecture- today they are talking about ...
16 August 2005, 00:00
Having joined ATI from General Electric in the summer of 1996, John's been part of the team that's launched products from the very first mobile ATI graphics part - Rage ...
2 August 2005, 00:00
HEXUS remember the days when ATi Technologies, was generally a rather conservative operation, but it seems that those days are fading fast...
25 July 2005, 00:00
The ECS PF5 Extreme isn't a bad board by any means. We feel as if a few tweaks here and there will make it into a real contender in the ...
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 ...
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 ...

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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