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NVIDIA's nForce4 Professional Launch [Article, Hexus]
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 in counts of two or four, over and
above the base CK8-04 configuration and feature set. Board partners seem to be
ignoring uniprocessor for the time being, dual and quad Opteron getting masses
of nForce4 love from the likes of Tyan. Wed, 09 Feb, 2005 | 18 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
VIA's PT880 Pro & PT894 Chipsets [Preview, legitreviews]
VIA has done a great job on making the transition to PCIe graphics and DDR2
memory as easy as possible for consumers. By launching chipsets that can offer
AGP/PCIe and DDR1/DDR2 they allow the consumer to upgrade at will, which is an
A+ in our book. No one likes being forced into buying an entirely new system
with each and every advance in technology... Wed, 09 Feb, 2005 | 19 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
VIA's PT880 Pro and PT894 Core Logic [Preview, Hexus]
PT880 Pro is just what the doctor ordered for those not interested in
Athlon 64. If you're a P4 fan and you want to continue on that path into 2005
and fancy a piecemeal upgrade to PCI Express and DDR2, PT880 Pro is for you.
Good performance matches obvious upgrade potential. The ability to bring AGP
and your existing DDR400 to a board that supplies LGA775, DDR2 and PCI Express
is not to be underestimated. Wed, 09 Feb, 2005 | 14 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
nForce Professional 2200/2050 Chipset Launch [Article, legitreviews]
Before NVIDIA introduces to the world their venture into Intel-based chipsets,
NVIDIA is making a move today to further grasp their hold on the AMD market
with a new release in the nForce Professional chipset series for servers and
workstations. Today we are going to give you the rundown on the new NVIDIA
nForce Professional 2200/NVIDIA nForce Professional 2050 chipsets. Sat, 29 Jan, 2005 | 28 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ATI XPRESS 200 [Review, Hexus]
ATI's 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 that appears to overclock as high as NVIDIA or
VIA's best. The business customer, meanwhile, can take advantage of an
IGP model and produce a low-cost, powerful system. Productivity may
suffer once employees understand and exploit its DX9 goodness, though.
What ATI and its partners need to do is flood the Athlon 64 market with
as many different examples of its XPRESS 200 chipset, both basic and
premium, before NVIDIA and VIA do. Timing is everything in this
business, and the proverbial clock is ticking. Sun, 12 Dec, 2004 | 50 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 Chipset Preview [Preview, LegitReviews]
The ATI Radeon Xpress 200 has arrived and offers another choice for those
users wanting a better integrated graphics solution. ATI may have a winner if
the final production boards look anything like this... Sat, 04 Dec, 2004 | 59 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ATI Radeon Xpress 200: Performance, PCI Express & DX9 for Athlon 64 [Review, Anandtech]
About 6 months ago, we reported that ATI would be introducing their first chipset for AMD Athlon 64. Between that first report and today's introduction of the ATI RX480 chipset, a lot has happened. In round 2 of the A64 chipset wars, the industry moved from the single-channel memory Socket 754 to the dual-channel Socket 939. VIA morphed their successful K8T800 chipset into the K8T800 PRO by adding 1000 Hyper Transport and a PCI/AGP lock. nVidia performed a more massive transformation of their nForce3 chipset, moving from the pedestrian nForce3-150 to the leading-edge nForce3-250 family in May. Clearly, the stakes for a new player in the Athlon 64 chipset market went up as Athlon 64 chipsets evolved. Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 59 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel 925XE chipset and 3.46GHz Extreme Edition CPU [Review, Hexus]
AMD has moved on but Intel's top-level performance has remained
largely the same, so whilst I'm a fan of all the good aspects of 925X/XE
chipsets, I find it hard to recommend it as a performance platform when
the Extreme Edition is still playing catchup, most notably in gaming.
Cast aside any company-specific favouritisms and ask yourself
objectively what you would rather have if money was not an issue - an
AMD FX-55/nForce4/DDR1 2-2-2-5 memory setup or 3.46GHz Extreme
Edition/i925XE/DDR2? Sat, 06 Nov, 2004 | 46 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
nForce4 Technology Preview [Preview, Bjorn3d]
The eagle has landed! nVidia's nForce4 is set to dominate the AMD64
marketplace, and it has plenty of features to offer to all levels. There is far
more to this new chipset than the much-hyped SLI architecture; in fact, in my
opinion the most exciting features are what will be offered to the average
customer. Last week I met with nVidia and witnessed the nForce4 for myself...
prepare to be impressed! Sat, 30 Oct, 2004 | 17 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
NVIDIA's nForce 4 [Preview, Hexus]
It's a really excellent bit of core logic for AMD CPUs. I know
many of you have been waiting for nForce4 before you upgraded to PCI
Express graphics cards. It's here, it performs great, features are top
notch and boards won't cost the earth. Sat, 30 Oct, 2004 | 12 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel 915 Graphics: Graphics Media Accelerator 900 [Article, AnandTech]
The new graphics solution, dubbed the Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (GMA900), promises a vast improvement over Intel's previous Extreme Graphics 2 line. Proclaiming DirectX 9 Pixel Shader 2.0 support, Intel indicates that it fully supports the next generation graphics' features of Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn based operating system. Thu, 05 Aug, 2004 | 217 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel's 925X Platform - D925XCV Desktop Board Review [Review, Beyond3d]
Intel have introduced their latest Desktop Chipsets and motherboards based on them. With these new chipsets Intel are introducing numerous platform changes, signalling their intent to make the PC an even more high performance, hence versatile, platform than it is already. Here Beyond3D is taking a look at Intel’s D925XCV Desktop board and the technologies the 925X chipset it’s based on brings. Sat, 10 Jul, 2004 | 1772 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Grantsdale and Alderwood Primer [Preview, ViperLair]
Today marks the release of one of the most innovative tech launches in Intel's history. We outline the new technology today. Sun, 20 Jun, 2004 | 17 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel 925X/915: Chipset Performance & DDR2 [Review, AnandTech]
The introduction of new processors from Intel is always a media event, but the launch of new Intel chipsets becomes a major event. As the largest player in the chipset market, the innovations in Intel's new chipsets always have a profound influence, not just on the Pentium 4 processor market, but on the VIA, nVidia, SiS, and other designs for both Intel and AMD Processors. Intel is more than the largest maker of chipsets, they are also the yardstick by which every other chipset and chipset maker is measured. Sun, 20 Jun, 2004 | 287 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel's 915P and 925X w/ LGA775, DDR-II and PCI-Express [Review, Hexus]
You see it's a lot more than just a socket change. There's new chipsets to consider (three in the consumer space that HEXUS covers, a few more if you count the business sector that we traditionally ignore), the new CPUs that the chipsets power (six on this new socket, all available and announced today), PCI Express for both graphics and sundry peripherals, Intel's High Definition Audio spec, the new SATA controller on the all-new ICH6/R southbridge, DDR-II memory which Intel is pushing hard and a whole lot more, new socket definitely included. Sun, 20 Jun, 2004 | 113 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel's new 775LGA CPUs and 925/915 chipsets [Review, HardOCP]
We kick the tires on PCI-Express, DDR2, and a new Intel CPU and socket. And of course we compare them to AMD's top end and a couple of legacy systems as well. Sun, 20 Jun, 2004 | 109 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Chipset Serial ATA and RAID performance comparison [Roundup, TechReport]
OVER THE PAST YEAR, Serial ATA RAID has become one of the most popular checkbox features for core logic chipsets. The latest offerings from Intel, NVIDIA, SiS, and VIA all support Serial ATA RAID, but there can be a world of difference between feature support and real-world performance. To find out which chipset offers the best single-drive, RAID 0, and RAID 1 performance with Serial ATA drives, I've spent the last month running Intel's ICH5R, NVIDIA's nForce3 250Gb, SiS's SiS964, and VIA's VT8237 through a punishing gauntlet of disk subsystem and application tests. The results of this benchathon are enlightening, to say the least. Thu, 27 May, 2004 | 183 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Socket 754 Chipset Shootout [Shootout, AcesHardware]
Many of our readers are eagerly awaiting the new Socket 939 motherboards, due to begin appearing in a few days. When MSI offered us a chance to review the K8N Neo, we could still not resist, as Socket 754 may well become the choice of many budget-minded readers. A second reason might be the fact that Socket 754 Athlon 64s ship with 1 MB of L2-cache and will be rated slightly lower (and thus cheaper) than their Socket 939 brothers with 512 KB L2-cache. This makes Socket 754 interesting if your favorite application is a cache friendly one. Thu, 27 May, 2004 | 93 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
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