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The Shuttle AK35GTR Motherboard Review Raising the Bar on Quality and Performance By, Jeff Bouton February 12, 2002 Over the last several months, you have seen us report on a growing number of motherboards based on the KT266A chipset from VIA. Review after review we?ve gone over the virtues of this very popular chipset,...
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Dueling i845 DDR Boards From Abit and Asus Abit's BD7-RAID and Asus' P4B266 Take Flight By, Dave Altavilla January 23, 2002 We're back again with a look at two new motherboards based on Intel's recently released i845D chipset with DDR SDRAM support. Our initial look at the i845D was centered around some fairly standard...
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The Acorp 7KT266A Motherboard Review More KT266A Action In The House! By, Jeff Bouton January 23, 2002 Today we'll be reviewing the latest in a long line of KT266A motherboards to move through the H.H. labs, the Acorp 7KT266A. Although some of you may not have heard of them, Acorp has been around for a number of...
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The DFI AK76 AMD 760 Mainboard Via and AMD...What a Combination! By Jeff Bouton 7/18/01 One of the more beneficial new technologies to appear in the last year is Double-Data Rate RAM. The benefits of this technology has become widely known and as a result, widely adopted my most major motherboard and videocard manufacturers. ...
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Abit's TH7II-Raid & Skt. 478 P4 CPU! Setup for the next generation of Intel's Flagship By, Dave Altavilla August 16, 2001 All indications are that we are shaping up for a very busy fall here in the PC Hardware scene. New Processors, Motherboard Chipsets and Form Factors, Graphics Cards and Graphics Chipset, are coming to fruition...
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The DFI AD70-SR Motherboard Review More KT266A Lovin' In The House! By, Jeff Bouton December 6, 2001 DFI has been long known for producing quality motherboards with great stability, but they usually lacked any innovative features. With their latest release, the AD70-SR, DFI hopes to break with tradition. Incorporating the...
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Intel's i845 DDR Chipset Debuts MSI's 845 Ultra-ARU & DFI's NB70-SC DDR Solutions Based On Intel's New Value Platform By, Dave Altavilla December 17 2001 The market has been waiting for this one for a long time. Intel has authorized OEMs to begin shipping Brookdale (i845) based solutions, now with DDR...
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Abit's BE6 Motherboard - Slot1 Intel BX w/ ATA66 EIDE Probably the most familiar name to the hard core Overclocker, Abit has been producing motherboards, that break the mold and set new standards, for many years now. I remember the first time I used an Abit board back in the early days of the Pentium. The SoftMenu setup feature made...
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Abit's KA7 - KX133 Athlon Motherboard AMD's Athlon Set Up The Abit Way! April 11, 2000 By Dave Altavilla As my late Grand Father would say, "HOLY MACKEREL" ! My Grandfather was an excitable Italian type and this "fishy phrase" would be one that he would use to indicate his amazement with something. In...
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Shuttle's AV40 VIA P4X266 DDR P4 Motherboard RAMBUS, watch your back, DDR comes to the P4 By, Dave Altavilla October 15, 2001 Here's a vocabulary word for you, "litigious". Good one isn't it? Before you get nervous that this is some sort of creative writing lesson, let me explain, as this word is very fitting for...
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DFI's PC64 - Motherboard More i820 and RAMBUS action on the test-bench Intel's new i820 chipset is slowly being accepted and brought to market by various motherboard manufacturers. It is obvious that this has been a pains taking process for the Motherboard Vendors in the market, as release dates for many of the major players have slipped...
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DFI's CS60-EC i815EP Motherboard A little less is more... By Jeff Bouton March 22, 2001 With the technology markets taking a beating in recent months, it will become more evident who the major players are in the technology world and who isn?t. Competition will become as fierce as ever, pushing companies to increase quality and reliability,...
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The ECS D6VAA Dual-CPU VIA Powered Motherboard Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun... By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta July 26, 2001 Dual-CPU systems, previously reserved for use as high-end servers, have now become affordable due to the efforts of companies like ECS, Abit, Intel and Via (among others). With the increased popularity...
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The Gigabyte GA-6CX and GA-MG400 i820 Motherboard and G400 Based Graphics Card - A package Deal The long awaited Intel i820 chipset has finally been released to the market. What is somewhat surprising is the amount of time it is taking motherboard manufacturers to get boards designed and released based on this new chipset. We all...
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The AMD Duron and Gigabyte's GA-7ZM KT133 Motherboard Compact Economy and Performance By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 7/20/00 It looks as if AMD is here to stay with their X86 processor offering. Finally there is a viable and worthy opponent to the all mighty Intel. This year AMD is giving Intel a run for their money with a...
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Gigabyte's GA-8TX - i850 Pentium 4 Motherboard No frills performance By Dave Altavilla 1/10/2001 The beautiful thing about a new processor platform is that with it is born a whole new architecture and motherboard platform to go with it. Pentium 4 motherboards are flowing fairly freely now from various vendors and the second P4...
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Gigabyte's GA-6OXM7E i815 Socket 370 Motherboard It sure looks nice...but how does it perform? By, Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta 11 / 2 / 2000 The hardware community had been eagerly anticipating a worthy successor to the mighty 440BX chipset. When Intel released their 133MHz FSB capable "Coppermine" Pentium IIIs it was time to also...
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P4 i845 SDRAM Motherboards from Asus and MSI The Asus P4B and MSI 845Pro2-R do battle By, Dave Altavilla September 24th, 2001 The Pentium 4 definitely has had it fair share of struggle and strife. In part, one of the reasons why Intel took some "heat" about the P4, was their choice of system memory interface. ...
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The Iwill KK266Plus KT133A Motherboard Its Nice, but DDR is here... By, Marco Chiappetta September 27, 2001 Recently, we were presented with the opportunity to review one of Iwill's Socket-A motherboards. We haven't had much experience with Iwill's products here at HotHardware, so we jumped at the opportunity to get their KK266Plus in...
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Abit's KT7A-RAID Socket A Motherboard Don't miss out... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta March 8, 2001 The competition in the CPU and motherboard chipset markets over the last year or so has been incredible. AMD has evolved into Intel's fiercest competitor and are consistently gaining market share. AMD's Athlon line of CPUs have steadily...
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Driving The Athlon MIcro-Star's MS-6167 AMD Based Motherboard Finally, the playing field is begining to level out somewhat in the Processor/Motherboard arena. The consumer is no longer limited to one processor and chipset family that will provide top end performance. For many years competitors to Intel...
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MSI's 694T Pro Motherboard Let's Shed Some Light on the Subject By, Jeff Bouton September 6th, 2001 When one thinks of quality motherboards, several manufacturers come to mind, one of which has to be MSI. For over 15 years, MSI has been producing some of the finest computer products on the market and today we've...
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