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• Soyo KT600 DRAGON Ultra   [Review, MBReview]
  One motherboard manufacturer that has yet to release any type of motherboard with an nForce2 chipset is Soyo Computer. As a result, Soyo is one of the only manufacturers to make their flagship motherboard for K7 processors based on the VIA KT600 chipset. Their result is dubbed the Soyo KT600 Dragon Ultra Platinum.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 122 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Article: DFI Infinity 865PE and CMOS Reloaded Part 1   [Article, SubZeroTech]
  This is a small preview of some hot new features that DFI, the makers of the Lanparty series of motherboards, is unveiling in their new series of motherboards. The most notable feature is “CMOS Reloaded”. You may be wondering what exactly this is, and in the following paragraphs I will explain what it is, and why you need to have it if you value ease of overclocking whatsoever. But first I want to say a word about the new “infinity” series of motherboards.
   Sat, 27 Sep, 2003 | 16 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• DFI LanParty NForce II Ultra   [Review, TheTechLounge]
  You may remember our review of the DFI Lan Party KT400a with it's unique looks and numerous accessories. If you frequent LAN parties or like to show off your rig, you might have considered this great board. Sadly, there was one disadvantage, the board overclocks a bit better than a poundcake with a processor jammed in it.. Thankfully, DFI produces a NForce II Ultra based motherboard in the Lan Party series, and if the board makes good use of the NForce II chipset, your overclocking worries may be over. So follow along my friends, as we venture into the mysterious world of... well... umm... motherboards. Yeah.
   Sat, 27 Sep, 2003 | 85 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Abit's IC7-MAX3   [Review, HotHardware]
  You definitely have to hand it to the engineers at Abit Computer. While many motherboard manufacturers are taking steps to differentiate their board from the masses, by bundling in gimmick goodies, like FrontX drive bay boxes and travel bags, Abit has been delivering breakout innovative motherboard designs, that call attention to themselves all on their own. Abit's "MAX" series of motherboards was the first and currently the only design approach, that completely eliminates legacy serial and LPT ports, in favor of USB 2.0 and Firewire connectivity. Pack in some rounded IDE cables, your standard assortment of SATA cabling, fashion on a killer chipset heat-sink and one would think Abit went the distance, to deliver something new and exciting in a motherboard. However, the engineers at Abit recently decided to go a few steps further.
   Thu, 25 Sep, 2003 | 57 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Athlon64 Motherboards: First Look at Chaintech, FIC, and MSI   [Review, AnandTech]
  AnandTech takes a first look at Athlon64 motherboards that use both nForce3-150 and VIA K8T800 Chipsets. How do the new offerings from Chaintech, FIC, and MSI compare? Are they good enough to make you want one?
   Thu, 25 Sep, 2003 | 45 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• DFI 865PE Infinity Motherboard with CMOS Reloaded   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  And they aim to do it again with a new approach to BIOS settings. While launching its new Infinity series of mainboards targeting overclockers on a budget, DFI is also bringing out CMOS Reloaded, which enables the user to select/tweak, define, save, and rename the CMOS. Currently, CMOS Reloaded allows you to save two distinct CMOS configurations. DFI has saved this announcement for Computex, and they will be getting the word out as much as they can.
   Thu, 25 Sep, 2003 | 21 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Gigabyte 8S655FX Ultra (SiS 655FX): Price/Performance Reaches a New Level   [Review, AnandTech]
  Weeks ago, SiS introduced their SiS 655FX chipset to a rather uninterested crowd of enthusiasts who were already immersed with the latest 865PE and 875P motherboards. Understandably so, motherboard makers haven’t been too keen on the SiS 655FX because of Intel’s great success with the 865PE and 875P chipsets in the enthusiast market (though, Intel obviously didn’t have any competitors, until now that is).
   Thu, 25 Sep, 2003 | 57 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ABIT IC7-MAX3 i875 CANTERWOOD   [Review, Hexus]
  Wouldn't it be great, then, if a motherboard manufacturer paid special attention to the overclockability of its boards by implementing novel features. ABIT thinks so. It's mission, evidently, is to manufacturer the very best Canterwood board that money can buy. Speaking of money, it won't be cheap. The ABIT IC7-MAX3 looks set to be a features and FSB champion, all with a hefty price tag that's approaching the £200 mark. Is it the best i875P board yet, or can it just talk the talk and not walk the walk ?. Let's find out.
   Tue, 23 Sep, 2003 | 68 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ABIT KV7 KT600   [Review, OCAddiction]
  ABIT, a name synonymous with innovation, quality, craftsmanship and some overclockability. ABIT was established in 1989 and has been the source of innovative products on a regular basis. ABIT is the originator of jumperless "SoftMenu" technology. ABIT is pushing forth cutting edge technology with SERILLEL™ for motherboards, and OTES™ for VGA Cards. Today we have the pleasure of reviewing an AMD based motherboard outfitted with the latest chipset architecture from VIA. The KT600 chipset is designed to support AMD Athlon XP, Athlon and Duron 400/333/266 MHz CPUs for superior performance. Let's see if the KV7 with KT600 can outperform it's predecessors the KT400 and KT400A.
   Tue, 23 Sep, 2003 | 92 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• FIC KT-748 Motherboard Review   [Review, MBReview]
  It was only a few weeks ago that we had the pleasure of taking a look at the first FIC motherboard to enter the MBR testing labs, and today we have yet another review for you from the likes of FIC. This time, we will be taking a look at their latest AMD offering, the KT-748, which consists of the relatively unknown SiS748 chipset. SiS has rarely been a real fan favorite when it comes to overall performance, but their chipsets do offer comparable performance and usually offer a better price point for the budget conscious buyers. With the new SiS748 chipset appears a new technology, something SiS calls “Hyper-Streaming.” I will be covering this new technology in far more detail in our upcoming SiS655FX review, but for now to keep things simple, this technology work to lower latencies throughout the system in order to improve performance to the levels of today’s more well-known dual channel chipsets. Today we’ll be taking a look at whether or not the KT-748’s Hyper-Streaming can keep up with the KT600’s FastStream64 on the Abit KV7.
   Tue, 23 Sep, 2003 | 87 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Gigabyte GA-8KNXP i875P Motherboard Review   [Review, PCStats]
  Today we're going to be testing Gigabyte's flagship Intel motherboard, the GA-8KNXP. The GA-8KNXP is based on the i875P chipset and the board has native support for Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID, Ultra/133 RAID, IEEE 1394, CSA Intel Gigabit LAN, and 5.1 audio.
   Tue, 23 Sep, 2003 | 151 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Gigabyte GA-8S655FX Ultra SiS655FX Motherboard   [Review, PCStats]
  SiS are easily one of the hottest tech companies in the world right now when it comes to core logic. However, while the company has produced some very remarkable chipsets in the last little while, there are still some parties that can't shake the 'low end chipset provider' moniker, even though it is wildly outdated. It would seem as though SIS' past reputation still haunts them, but as long as the company stays true to the current path, there is no doubt they are set to take the chipset world by storm.
   Tue, 23 Sep, 2003 | 67 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R K8T800 Motherboard Review   [Review, PCStats]
  Today we're going to be testing a K8T800 based motherboard from the minds at MSI, called the K8T Neo-FIS2R. It's one of the first socket 754 Athlon64 motherboards on the market, and believe me, it's one heck of a package!
   Tue, 23 Sep, 2003 | 92 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Balanced Technology eXtended (BTX) Form Factor - The Future of Cases & Motherboards   [Article, AnandTech]
  As is made evident by the proliferation of Small Form Factor (SFF) machines into the market, the need for a smaller, quieter successor to ATX has been building over the past 8 years. A couple of IDFs ago, Intel announced their development of the successor to ATX, which was codenamed Big Water. At the Fall 2003 Intel Developer Forum, Intel officially branded Big Water as the Balanced Technology eXtended form factor - or BTX for short.
   Sun, 21 Sep, 2003 | 366 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Asus A7N8X-X   [Review, OCAddiction]  
  Asus is the top manufacturer of motherboards in the world. They make retail motherboards as well as OEM boards for OEM companies like Hewlett Packard. My old Hewlett Packard was powered by an OEM Asus motherboard and the Intel Pentium III processor. The performance and reliability of an Asus motherboard is top notch. They never fail to satisfy their consumers. Visiting forum to forum and looking around computer stores, I have realized that the many buyers choose Asus motherboards. From socket 370 to socket A to socket 478, Asus has a top performing board that will surely impress its user. Heck, I still have my Asus CUSL2 Black Pearl that's running a Pentium III 550. It overclocks like a champ! With such a great performance comes a great price. Not all Asus motherboards are cheap. The A7N8X Deluxe v2.0 and the P4C800 Deluxe are quite expensive. Asus now aims at lower budget consumers, thus the production of the Asus A7N8X-X. Based on the nForce2 chipset, Asus strips the original board of some features and sells it at an affordable cost.
   Fri, 19 Sep, 2003 | 3468 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• EPoX 8RDA3G nForce2 Ultra 400   [Review, Hexus]  
  The nForce2's bandwagon keeps rollin'. That's in spite of VIA's, and SiS' to a lesser extent, push for present Socket A performance leadership. However, with rumblings of hither-to unseen performance from AMD's very latest 64-bit CPUs, 32-bit AMD processors will soon be shoved out of the limelight. Right now, though, the Barton and nForce2 bundle is pretty appealing, especially with the jam-packed nForce2 providing all manner of integrated extras.
   Fri, 19 Sep, 2003 | 533 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394   [Review, Neoseeker]
  Our review today gives us a chance to get our first look at VIA's newest chipset, the KT600. Gigabyte's GA-7T600 is one of the first boards to market with this chipset and we're really looking forward to putting it through it's paces. Featuring a 400MHz front side bus, a reworked memory controller and an integrated SATA/RAID controller VIA hopes to regain some ground for lost to NVIDIA's successful Nforce2 series. VIA also carries over some of the features from the KT400A Chipset, such as; Six-Trac (six channel) AC'97 audio, MC '97 modem and VIA MAC 10/100 LAN.
   Fri, 19 Sep, 2003 | 143 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Albatron KX18D PROII: nForce2 Ultra with Memory Ratios   [Review, AnandTech]
  The CEO of Albatron was one of the key players at Gigabyte as they grew from OEM supplier to one of the four largest motherboard makers in the world. That expertise and attention has now been focused on Albatron. While the Albatron name is barely in its second year of existence, the motherboards and video cards have already earned a reputation as solid products built with the computer enthusiast in mind.
   Wed, 17 Sep, 2003 | 74 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ASUS P4P800S-E: Standing Out in the Crowd   [Review, AnandTech]
  ASUS announced their 848P motherboard in the middle of last month to a rather neutral reception. Intel’s 848P chipset went relatively unnoticed when it was introduced the weeks prior to ASUS’ 848P motherboard press release, so users were understandably unexcited when they heard about an 848P motherboard. However, this wasn’t too surprising, considering the 848P’s specs; a single channel DDR400 chipset aimed at the value market. This chipset, unlike older single channel DDR motherboards based on the 845PE chipset, supports 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 processors. Essentially, the 848P chipset is an 865PE chipset with one channel disabled. Not too many enthusiasts of any market segment would seemingly be interested in a product like this. However, from what we’ve gathered so far, 848P motherboards will be specifically built as cheap products with tremendous price/performance value. Indeed, this is what we have seen with the ASUS P4P800S-E and why we are reviewing it today.
   Wed, 17 Sep, 2003 | 162 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• MSI 865PE Neo2-FIS2R Motherboard   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  Thanks to MSI, we have the 865PE Neo2-FIS2R board up for review today. Not only does it sport some of the best features available for an Intel board, such as Hyper-Threading, Serial ATA (four ports!), Gigabit LAN and dual-channel DDR, but it also sports some innovative, MSI-exclusive features like CoreCell and Dynamic Overclocking Technology. It looks great on paper, but you have to check out the rest of this review to see how it really performs.
   Wed, 17 Sep, 2003 | 149 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail