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The Asus P4S800D-E Motherboard Pentium 4 Powered Performance With The SiS 655TX Chipset By: Dave Altavilla December 22, 2003 All year we've been waiting for a chipset manufacturer to get into the Pentium 4 chipset arena with a Dual Channel DDR capable offering that finally gave Intel something to sweat over. We've seen offerings...
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ABIT AI7 865PE Motherboard Review The i865PE board with "µGuru" By: Jeff Bouton December 18th, 2003 When it comes to overclocking an Intel based system, no processor has shown more potential than the Pentium 4-C. More specifically, Intel's Pentium 4-C at 2.4GHz has proven to have a ton of headroom, with many user's hitting...
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Albatron PX865PE Lite Pro vs. Asus P4P800S-E Budget boards take a bite out of the market by Robert Maloney November 20th, 2003 With the proliferation of 800MHz FSB processors and the wide acceptance of DDR400 memory, it's quite easy to see how Springdale and Canterwood boards have captured...
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By Jeff Bouton October 26, 2003 So, you've read the reviews and now you're considering upgrading to an Athlon 64. From what we've seen, that's not a bad choice. As Marco showed in his introduction to the Athlon 64, AMD's much anticipated processor has shown a lot of...
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Abit's IC7-MAX3 The Legacy Free, OTES Cooled Canterwood Board By Dave Altavilla September 22, 2003 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...
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Gigabyte's GA-8S648FX Motherboard Bridging the gap with the SiS 648FX "Burned" in by Robert Maloney August 13th, 2003 A lot of hype and controversy has surrounded Intel's latest chipsets, the i865 Springdale and the i875 Canterwood, and they are proving to be very capable solutions...
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Auravision's EluminX Keyboard Illuminating technology "Burned in" by Robert Maloney July 30th, 2003 While we here at HotHardware have written countless articles on motherboards, video cards, and the like, we haven't often found the time or reason to comment on one piece of everyone's setup, the keyboard. For the most...
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3-Way i875P "Canterwood" Shoot-Out MSI, DFI & Chaintech Square Off... By, Marco Chiappetta June 18, 2003 Intel's i875P "Canterwood", as well as the i865 "Springdale" chipsets, have generated quite a buzz within the enthusiast community and for good reason! ...
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Intel D865GBF 865G Motherboard Review Springdale Goes Mainstream, With Graphics By: Chris Angelini and Dave Altavilla May 21st, 2003 We've come to know Intel as a conservative company, generally unwilling to take precarious risks on unproven technology. Yet, just last month, Intel unveiled its first true flagship platform since the i850E,...
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Abit IC7-G vs. Asus P4C800 A tale of two Canterwoods By, Dave Altavilla April 29, 2003 Intel's i875P/i865P Canterwood/Springdale chipsets have all the markings of a second coming; the second coming of the "BX". Intel's 440BX was a chipset for the Pentium 3, that reigned supreme years ago,...
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Soltek SL-75MRN-L Motherboard Soltek takes a crack at Nforce2 By, Tom Laverriere April 20, 2003 Motherboard - check, graphics card - check, sound card - check, ethernet card - check... Oh sorry, you caught me making a list of hardware one would need for a new system and that doesn't even cover the half of it. If you're building...
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Review on the Abit BH7 Motherboard The Legend Continues... By Robert Maloney April 9th, 2003 Everyone holds a few memories close to their heart; their first kiss, the first time they drove a car solo, and the first time they got a sweet overclock on a motherboard. OK, that last one might be a bit of a stretch, but there are a...
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The VIA P4PB Ultra Motherboard Review Intent on Total System Performance for the P4 By Robert Maloney March 19th, 2003 Our first impression of the VIA P4PB Ultra, when the box showed up on the testing bench, was that it screamed (literally) that it was here to play. From the no-nonsense black box with a guy yelling (at what we...
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Tyan S2662 Trinity i7205 Dual Channel DDR for the Pentium 4 By, Chris Angelini February 24th, 2003 KISS - four letters that together, can mean so many different things. It's a '70's rock band, it's a gesture of affection, and for Tyan, it's an acronym. "Keep It Simple, Stupid" - quite possibly the best way to avoid...
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The Abit BG7E Motherboard Review An Abit Board For the Masses... By Robert Maloney February 24, 2003 A few months back, we published a three board round-up of products based on the new Intel I845PE Chipset, including one from Abit, that being the BE7-RAID. Without regurgitating facts about the chipset, suffice it to say that it proved...
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The Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard Review May the 'nForce2' be with you By, Jeff Bouton January 9, 2003 Back when NVIDIA first announced they were entering the chipset market, one couldn?t help but wonder if companies like Via, Intel and SiS were looking over their shoulders. At the time, NVIDIA shared control of the high end 3D...
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Abit NF7-S Motherboard Abit's Version of the NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset By, Tom Laverriere January 7, 2003 When NVIDIA announced the release of its second generation NFORCE chipset, dubbed the nForce2, there was much anticipation amongst the enthusiast market. After all, the NFORCE, although it wasn't completely polished, displayed...
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Intel D845PEBT2 i845PE Motherboard Review Intel Appeals to the Enthusiast By: Chris Angelini December 29, 2002 Intel certainly has an established reputation when it comes to motherboards. In most regards, its reputation is solid but hardware enthusiasts generally don't recognize Intel for supporting those whom derive utility from...
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The Asus P4G8X Deluxe Motherboard Intel E7205 - Granite Bay Infused Horsepower By, Dave Altavilla December 18, 2002 The first Granite Bay (Intel E7205 chipset) motherboard to grace the HotHardware Laboratories not long ago, was MSI's GNB Max. This board, supports Dual Channel DDR and AGP8X, as well as a host of other features, for the...
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ASUS P4S8X SiS 648 Motherboard AGP 8X, Serial ATA and More! By: Chris Angelini December 16, 2002 Manufacturing chipsets for AMD's Athlon XP is one thing. SiS, VIA and NVIDIA all vie for market share by focusing on different areas, be it price, performance or features. Contending with Intel in the Pentium 4 chipset market is quite...
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The I845PE Motherboard Shootout Clash of the Titans! By Robert Maloney December 11, 2002 The vast majority of motherboards for the Pentium 4 generally come in two varieties, those using RDRAM and others using DDR SDRAM clocked at 266MHz. While the consensus was that RDRAM was the performance leader, pricing and availability...
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The MSI GNB Max-FISR Motherboard Intel's Granite Bay With Dual Channel DDR and AGP8X By, Dave Altavilla December 8, 2002 It seems as though the entire PC world has been waiting for a Dual Channel DDR chipset to come to the Pentium 4. Although RAMBUS and RDRAM technology certainly had its merits, as the highest available bandwidth memory...
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