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Athlon Boosters - Three AMD 760 Boards for DDR SDRAMMar 14, 2001 - in Reviews
Three boards with the new AMD chipset line up for comparison: The Asus A7M266, the Biostar M7MIA and the Gigabyte GA-7DX. One question remains however. Will motherboards with this chipset soon become collectables? Will AMD continue to produce the 760 chipset once VIA's KT266 becomes widely available?
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Reinforcements: 6 New Athlon Boards With VIA's KT133AFeb 21, 2001 - in Reviews
After the initial review on six KT133A motherboards, six more candidates from AOpen, IWill, MSI, NMC, Soyo and Tyan hit our lab. We picked out the winners out of the growing test range.
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Turbo Drive: Two Dual Boards with 2000 MHzFeb 1, 2001 - in Reviews
In this contest, Intel 815E and VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipsets are competing against each other on dual processor grounds. We tested two boards - the Acorp 6A815D and the Asus CUV4X-D - under Windows 2000 Pro and Suse Linux 6.4.
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DDR For Pentium III - VIA's Apollo Pro 266 ChipsetJan 24, 2001 - in Reviews
Finally Pentium is going DDR. However, is the aging Intel processor able to take advantage of this high-bandwidth memory or is VIA Apollo Pro 266 only a marketing gag after all? Find out in Tom's lovely but critical review.
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VIA In Shape: 6 Motherboards using the renewed KT133A ChipsetJan 22, 2001 - in Reviews
As DDR memory is still too expensive, a SDRAM-based Socket A motherboard seems to be the best choice right now. Those newcomers also support AMD's new Athlon-C.
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Late Vintage: High Degree of Maturity of the KT133Jan 17, 2001 - in Reviews
7 new socket A boards from Acorp, ECS, MSI, NMC, QDI and Transcend join the test field of a total of 23 KT133 boards. Three of them have surprises in store.
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SiS Back On Stage: The SiS730 Chipset for Duron and AthlonJan 9, 2001 - in Reviews
The new 730s from SiS is highly integrated, as one chip hosts almost everything you can imagine, including UltraATA/100 interface, graphics engine plus an AGP 4x slot, 100 MBit LAN and also support for 133 MHz Athlons. Will it be enough for SiS to beat VIA's KT133 and gain the AMD budget market?
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The Three Musketeers: Athlon Platforms For 133 MHz FSBJan 4, 2001 - in Reviews
Although AMD launched Athlon processors with 133 MHz processor bus already two months ago, we are still waiting for the proper platforms. It won't be long anymore now until you will have the choice between three different chipsets for those new Athlon processors. This article is comparing AMD's 760 DDR-chipset with ALi's MaGiK1 DDR-chipset and VIA's new Apollo KT133A chipset.
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5 New SocketA Boards With UltraATA/100Dec 20, 2000 - in Reviews
VIA's KT133 chipset has been joined by the 686B-Southbridge. Finally, the first boards from AOpen, Biostar, Luckystar, MSI, and Soltek offer the long-expected UltraATA/100 feature for hard disks.
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VIA's New South Bridge: VT82C686B Supporting UltraATA/100Oct 26, 2000 - in Reviews
The new VT82C686 B now offers an UltraATA/100 interface for AMD and Intel platforms. It can be combined with both the KT133 and the Apollo Pro 133A chipset. We found out if this new chip is a keen competitor for Intel's ICH2?
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Socket A Is Coming: Test of 10 BoardsSep 19, 2000 - in Reviews
Platforms with VIA's KT133 chipset are now more cost effective than boards for Intel processors. Currently the Duron offers the best price/performance ratio. Additionally, the Athlon is the winner of the performance competition.
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Twin-Turbos: MSI-694D Pro and Tyan Tiger 133Sep 11, 2000 - in Reviews
Inexpensive dual processor motherboards with VIA's 694X chipset have finally become available now. Due to PC133 SDRAM support, the newcomers are much more attractive than products with Intel's 840 chipset.
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Heir To The BX: 18 Pentium III Motherboards Using The 815 ChipsetSep 6, 2000 - in Reviews
After initial insecurity, the Solano chipset now enjoys growing popularity. Its state of the art features, good performance and great overclockability gradually make it the better choice than its predecessor 440BX.
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The 150 MHz Project, Part 3Aug 18, 2000 - in Reviews
This time we had the i815 chipset running at 150 MHz. Is the Solano chipset able to beat the BX at this system clock speed?
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Black Beauty: AOpen AX6BC Pro II Millennium EditionAug 17, 2000 - in Reviews
Aopen created a limited edition BX-board with a black PCB, a platinum coated heatsink and the names of the R&D designers etched onto it. Is it just a collectible item or does it stand out in terms of performance as well?
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Leading by Speeding: Solano at 166 MHzAug 1, 2000 - in Reviews
Intel's 815 chipset is not able to outperform the good old BX, but it certainly gives you a better margin for overclocking. Is it worth it?
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The Best For Freaks: 10 Motherboards using the BX-ChipsetJul 14, 2000 - in Reviews
It is fast, realiable and overclockable: The BX chipset is still the undisputed state-of-the-art chipset for performance freaks. Even though being more than two years old, it runs stable at FSB speeds far beyond 133 MHz and even outperforms Intel's latest high end chipsets. We took a close look at 10 different products.
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Beefed Up BX? - Five Boards with 815/Solano ChipsetJul 6, 2000 - in Reviews
The successors of the established but soon to be discontinued 440BX chipset are waiting in the wings. We took a closer look at five motherboards, two with 815E and three with 815 chipset.
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Comprehensive VIA motherboard roundup June 2000Jun 14, 2000 - in Reviews
Lining up two new boards from Asus and Epox makes a total of 27 motherboards. They all make use of the VIA Apollo Pro 133A (694X), coming either with Slot-1 or Socket 370. We will now crown the best ones for this summer.
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Review of Final i815/Solano ChipsetJun 11, 2000 - in Reviews
We were able to collect i815-motherboards with final silicon at Computex2000 and put them right to the test here in Taipei. Find out if Solano is indeed the new killer-chipset. Will it be able to beat BX133?
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12 Socket 370 Motherboards using VIA's Apollo Pro 133AMay 25, 2000 - in Reviews
According to Intel's plans, Socket 370 is gradually replacing Slot-1. This time we compared 12 new motherboards for Socket 370 Processors.
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SOLANO Preview - Once Intel Makes Sense ...May 22, 2000 - in Reviews
Once Intel makes sense, it produces good products that the market wants instead of patronizing consumers and forcing them to use RDRAM. We tested a motherboard with Intel's upcoming 815 chipset and found out that Intel is still able to kick some real butt once it remembers that customers want to be taken seriously.
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BX Flagship: Asus CUBXMay 18, 2000 - in Reviews
Some weeks before the release of the i815 chipset (code name Solano), Asus comes with another i440BX motherboard. Is the CUBX better than others?
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Slot-1 VIA Motherboard UpdateMay 17, 2000 - in Reviews
The VIA Apollo Pro 133A motherboards from ABit and Soyo have now arrived as well. How do they perform compared to their competition?
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The Impact of Intel's MTH-Issue on the IT-BusinessMay 12, 2000 - in Reviews
If you think you already know everything about Intel's MTH-disaster you might be very wrong. Not Intel is the company that's suffering from this issue; Intel's partners are the ones that are hit really hard. If you own an MTH-motherboard, make sure you read this article! If you don't, it's still worth to find out about 'Caminogate2'.
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VIA's Apollo KX133 Chipset and Windows2000May 8, 2000 - in Reviews
If you are the owner of an Athlon platform based on VIA's Apollo KX133 chipset, desperately trying to run Windows 2000 reliably, we can give you some help. We explain the reason behind the strange device-numbering problem and can offer you a new beta AGP-driver for Windows 2000.
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Athlon KX133 Motherboard Roundup - A Nail-Biting AffairMay 7, 2000 - in Reviews
Contrary to the AMD750/Irongate, the new KX133 Athlon chipset from VIA offers AGP 4x and a memory clock up to 133 MHz. But not all test candidates have overcome their childhood diseases, yet.
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The 150 MHz Project, Part 2May 3, 2000 - in Reviews
Last time we did some benchmarks using a VIA Apollo Pro 133A motherboard. As BX is obviously the faster chipset, we did all tests again at overclocked 133 MHz - and up to 1 GHz.
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Motherboard Comparison Epox EP-7KXA vs. Asus K7VApr 17, 2000 - in Reviews
Finally there are more and more Athlon motherboards with VIA's Apollo KX133 chipset becoming available. Before our big KX133 roundup goes online Tom had an in-depth look at two interesting contenders and tested them under Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000.
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21 Slot-1 Motherboards using VIA ChipsetsApr 10, 2000 - in Reviews
What's the best board for Coppermine? i820 solutions cannot impress anybody whilst BX is not specified for 133 MHz, so the VIA chipsets are taking the lead. We found out which boards are winners and sort out less attractive models.