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ABIT AW8-MAX i955X Motherboard Pictorial Review [Review, rojakpot]
Today, we are proud to present a pictorial review of the latest Intel motherboard from ABIT - the ABIT AW8-MAX i955X motherboard!
Come and check out the bells and whistles of this fascinating new motherboard! Sat, 16 Jul, 2005 | 75 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Motherboard [Review, Hexus]
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 paid to cooling and
tweaking, the ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI is hard to beat. Recommended to
the enthusiast/gamer. Fri, 15 Jul, 2005 | 28 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
EPoX EP-9NPA+ SLI Motherboard [Review, Hexus]
EPoX, with its EP-9NPA+ SLI, has taken onboard the chipset's
attributes and added in discrete SATA (PCI-Express, which is nice)
and FireWire400. What's also appealing is the voltage manipulation
available in BIOS. Enthusiasts will be happy to see 3v+ DDR and up to
1.85v available for the CPU. The chipset, BIOS, and features
implementation combine to make the 9NPA+ SLI a reasonably attractive
proposition. 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 that should overclock to 300MHz HTT and beyond. Wed, 13 Jul, 2005 | 24 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ABIT AN8 Fatal1ty S939 Motherboard [Review, Hexus]
ABIT Fatal1ty AN8's passes its biggest test, that is, being a
supreme enthusiast-orientated S939 motherboard. What makes it so good
is the sensible choice of a feature-rich chipset, nForce4 Ultra, and
due care and attention that's given over to both frequency and
fan-speed manipulation. These two factors combine to push the
sample's stable HTT frequency to 320MHz - the highest yet seen at
HEXUS. It's achieved without any additional cooling and it paves the
way for the Fatal1ty AN8 to be paired with the best S939 overclocking
CPUs available today, be they Venice or San Diego cores. Sun, 26 Jun, 2005 | 34 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
MSI P4N Diamond nForce4 SLI I.E Mainboard [Review, Hexus]
MSI has 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 performance is good and SLI
performance, too, is about as good as it's going to get with LGA775
as platform base. It's recommended as a fast LGA775 board with all
the trimmings, but it can't be recommended as the SLI board of choice
- no Intel board can. SLI and overall gaming performance belongs to
AMD. Thu, 23 Jun, 2005 | 18 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Pentium-M Meets PCIe : AOpen’s i915GMm-HFS Motherboard [Review, GamePC]
Luckily for us, AOpen has decided to forge on ahead with their second generation Pentium-M desktop platform, not only mating the Pentium-M processor with a modern chipset, but doing so with a feature set to make even the most hardcore enthusiast interested. PCI Express x16 graphics, Serial ATA-II/300 RAID, High Definition Audio, Dual PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet ports, DDR-II 533 memory, not to mention an interesting onboard graphics core with both DVI and HDTV outputs featured natively on the motherboard itself. Folks, say hello to AOpen's (unfortunately named) i915GMm-HFS motherboard, the future of the Pentium-M on the desktop. Let's continue. Thu, 23 Jun, 2005 | 39 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE i925XE Mainboard [Review, Hexus]
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 things being equal, will probably overclock higher
than other LGA775 models and offer the largest array of user-definable
options? If so, the Fatal1ty AA8XE is probably the best choice. The
most fundamental question for gamers/enthusiasts looking to build a
gaming monster of a PC is whether it's the best gaming board,
period?. The answer is no, and has little to do with how well ABIT
has architected this model. Put simply, AMD Athlon 64 CPUs are the
gaming CPUs of choice, as shown by the brief look at gaming results
on the previous page. Buy yourself a competent S939 board and run
with a mid-to-high-end Athlon 64 CPU instead. Either that, or invest
in an SLI-capable motherboard for either platform.
However, if you absolutely, positively want to run a decent Intel
gaming platform, the ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE remains a great choice. Sat, 04 Jun, 2005 | 16 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ECS PF88 Extreme Hybrid Mainboard [Review, Hexus]
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 the oft-boring, stagnant world of
motherboard design, the ECS ELITEGROUP PF88 Extreme is a breath of
very fresh air. Sat, 04 Jun, 2005 | 16 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ABIT AX8 VIA K8T890 Mainboard [Review, Hexus]
ABIT 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 to ABIT's usual standards. £79
buys you a decent introduction to S939, and performance, coupled with
any compatible CPU, is always going to be impressive, especially so in
gaming. Wed, 01 Jun, 2005 | 33 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Gigabyte's GA-8AENXP-D Mainboard [Review, Hexus]
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
Valhalla. Highly recommended. Thu, 12 May, 2005 | 28 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Gigabyte 8IPE775-G 'Springdale' Motherboard [Review, Hexus]
Gigabyte has tried to create a motherboard that takes the
forward-thinking approach of Socket-T and marries it with established
Springdale technology. The end result is a hybrid board,
unimaginatively named 8IPE775-G, that will last as long as Socket-T
is around. It's also priced at a wallet-friendly £60 and makes use of
regular DDR1 RAM and AGP-powered graphics cards, thus making the jump
to LGA775 a palatable one for most. Mon, 18 Apr, 2005 | 27 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Pentium M on your Socket 478 platform: Part 2 [Review, legitreviews]
Included with the CT-479 are the installation guide, a heatsink/fan, one 4-pin
power cable, and the socket adapter. The only "tool" needed for this kit is a
flat head screw driver to secure the Pentium M processor in the socket just
like what is done on a notebook computer. Mon, 18 Apr, 2005 | 37 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
DFI LANPARTY NF4 SLI-DR nForce4 SLI Motherboard [Review, Bjorn3d]
DFI's latest offerings come from the nForce4 family and were, not surprisingly,
some of the most anticipated nForce4 boards to hit store shelves. Recent
reviews show that DFI continues to flex its muscle in all the right ways to
leave users satisfied and then some. But, it's time for us to do our own
evaluation and review of the new LANPARTY flagship board, the LANPARTY NF4 SLI-
DR, one of the most feature-packed boards ever created. Wed, 13 Apr, 2005 | 41 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ECS's 915-A Mainboard [Review, Hexus]
Use of the Intel i915GV core logic is what really defines the 915-A's feature set. At first glance, it's hard to spot the difference between 915G and 915GV. 915GV doesn't support a 16 lane PCI Express bundle for routing to a PEG16X electrical slot, for graphics. With that electrical slot physically present on the 915-A, you'll notice the lanes routed to the slot, of which there are only two, are provided by the ICH6 I/O southbridge processor rather than the 915GV northbridge. Wed, 13 Apr, 2005 | 22 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel's Pentium-M 735 Processor and DFI 855GME Motherboard [Review, Hexus]
Performance wise, there's one thing that stands out from the analysis and observation of P-M's scaling with nothing more than its base frequency: it's crying out for core logic to let it breathe and perform to its fullest; there's definitely plenty of extra performance to be had by pairing P-M with Alviso core logic. There's also extra performance to be had just by upping the CPU's bus clock, so the upcoming 200MHz Pentium-Ms, using Alviso, should give very fine performance, comparatively. Wed, 13 Apr, 2005 | 39 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Pentium M on your Socket 478 platform [Review, legitreviews]
The ASUS CT-479 CPU Upgrade Kit is a newly launched solution that brings the
quiet and cool performance of the Intel Pentium M Socket 479 notebook processor
onto ASUS’ Socket 478 desktop motherboards. Read on and take a look and see
what the future holds for Pentium M lovers. Wed, 13 Apr, 2005 | 15 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
CeBIT 2005: NVIDIA chats about nForce4 SLI for Intel Pentium 4 [Article, Hexus]
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 a paper launch product, while also expressing bewilderment at being asked by the same hacks why it's not called nForce5. Wed, 30 Mar, 2005 | 12 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR Motherboard [Review, legitreviews]
The performance was everything I could have hoped for. Our results found this
board to be extremely stable at both stock speeds and when overclocking to the
highest FSB possible... Wed, 30 Mar, 2005 | 29 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel and AMD on the same motherboard [Article, Hexus]
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 show. HEXUS brings you the ECS PF88, the first mainboard to support both Intel P4 AND AMD Athlon 64 processors. Wed, 30 Mar, 2005 | 32 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel's BTX Form Factor - An Analysis and Opinion [Article, Hexus]
I can count the number of commercially available BTX mainboards and chassis' in this country on one hand. I can count the number of UK retailers selling packaged Pentium 4 processors with the Type 1 BTX Thermal Module on the fingers of no hands. Intel are happy for that to happen, too. Softly does it with BTX was the message conveyed to us during recent conversations. While BTX itself is a full platform shift, it's going to happen in incremental steps. Sat, 19 Mar, 2005 | 15 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
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