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The Game Pros: SLI Motherboards For Athlon 64May 31, 2005 - in Reviews
The combination of two fast GeForce graphics cards enables fluid 3D display at the highest resolutions with maximum picture quality. We took a look at four of the latest motherboards offering NVIDIA's new dual-card feature.
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Life in the Fast Lane: New Boards for the Athlon 64May 13, 2005 - in Reviews
Ten motherboards for Socket 939 and PCI Express hit our test bench to fight it out, with chipsets from ATI, NVIDIA and VIA in the running. Which brand will carry the day?
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The Elitegroup PF88 Extreme: An Athlon 64 or Pentium 4 MotherboardApr 27, 2005 - in Reviews
There was plenty to say about the PF88 Extreme when it debuted at CeBIT earlier this year: its capability to accommodate either an Athlon 64 or Pentium 4 and many other features that come with a high-end motherboard. Our tests tell the rest of the story.
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4 AMD Socket 754 MicroATX Motherboards: Getting the Job Done on the CheapApr 15, 2005 - in Reviews
They have almost everything a high-end motherboard offers, except they're really cheap. While not designed for CPUs to build your screaming game machine or home theater system, a new crop of AMD Socket 754 plus SiS 760GX motherboards can get almost any other computing job done.
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AOpen Powermaster: The Motherboard of All CPU Power-Saving Solutions?Apr 7, 2005 - in Reviews
We've written a lot about CPU liquid coolers and power saving technologies, but what can the motherboard offer? According to AOpen, its i915Pa-PLF's Powermaster does the job of reducing power consumption by regulating the system clock speed according to demands of the CPU's workload.
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NVIDIA nForce4 Intel Edition Sets Its Sights on Intel 925XEApr 6, 2005 - in Reviews
Today, NVIDIA announces the nForce4 Intel Edition chipset for socket 775, featuring dual core processor support and the option of SLI dual graphics. In addition to offering a host of advanced features, it also kicks Intel's 925XE off the top of the performance heap.
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Asus A8N-SLI Premium Allows SLI to be Enabled in SoftwareMar 23, 2005 - in Reviews
The Premium version of Asus' A8N-SLI motherboard allows you to turn on or off SLI in software, rather than requiring you to open your system case. Will this new feature help alleviate one of the issues that some people have with SLI?
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SiS Enters The Fray: The SiS 756 PCI Express Chipset For Athlon 64Mar 21, 2005 - in Reviews
On the heels of NVIDIA and VIA, SiS is now also offering a PCI Express chipset for the Athlon 64. The 756 offers modern features at a fair price, but is that enough to make the grade against such stiff competition?
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Market Survey, Part 2: Six Premium Pentium 4 LGA775 BoardsMar 7, 2005 - in Reviews
In this second part of our Socket 775 comparison test, we take a close look at some premium boards made by Asus, Intel, Gigabyte and MSI. Unfortunately, not all that glitters here is gold.
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Market Survey, Part 1: A Comparison Of The Latest Pentium 4 MotherboardsFeb 7, 2005 - in Reviews
SpeedStep alleviates the heat problems of the fast P4 processors, while even faster models are on the horizon. At the same time, DDR2 memory is becoming reasonably affordable, and boards have now had 6 months to age. It's time for our big comparison test, which we kick off with a look at seven different models from companies challenging the market leaders.
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VIA Arming the PCIe/AGP PT880 Pro Chipset For P4 Upgrade BusinessJan 31, 2005 - in Reviews
The long-anticipated PT880 Pro chipset is finally here, and it offers users what they have been waiting for: both PCI Express and AGP 8X graphics interfaces, which you can even use simultaneously. How does the ambitious design of the PT880 Pro stack up against Intel's 915P?
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TriGem's Kloss KL-I915a: Power Aplenty and Almost No NoiseJan 17, 2005 - in Reviews
A nifty design isn't the only thing this small form-factor PC has going for it: A very clever heat management solution renders the KL-I915a nearly noiseless. Should Shuttle and other top-gun makers be worried?
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Finally Available: Nine Socket 939 Athlon64 Motherboards!Jan 3, 2005 - in Reviews
After months of users being forced to choose from only a small selection of models, numerous manufacturers are now jumping on the Socket 939 bandwagon. And it's about time! The architecture features high performance and is even supposed to be suitable for tomorrow's dual-core Athlons. We put nine of the latest models through their paces, using both AGP and PCI Express.
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Quick and Quiet: Pentium M Desktop Boards by AOpen and DFIDec 24, 2004 - in Reviews
Do we really need PCs with processors that use over 100 watts of power? AOpen and DFI don't think so. They have started to ship new motherboards that allow you to use Intel's power-saving mobile Pentium M platform in desktops. How well do they work?
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Abit's Fatal1ty: Motherboards Go PremiumDec 8, 2004 - in Reviews
Many high-end PC enthusiasts and gamers have high expectations that the Abit Fatal1ty series will set new milestones for power and overclockability. We took a look at the first board available, the Fatal1ty AA8XE, based on the 925XE chipset.
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Gigabyte Creates a 915P Motherboard With SLINov 30, 2004 - in Reviews
Finally, somebody did it: Gigabyte sent us a motherboard based on Intel's 915P chipset with two physical x16 PCIe connectors. By merging the ICH6's four x1 PCIe ports into one physical slot, an NVIDIA SLI graphics solution on the Intel architecture is now a reality.
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Jetway's 915P-TWIN Mobo: One PC, Two UsersNov 19, 2004 - in Reviews
Motherboard value-added features are largely tied to the chipset's capabilities. However, Jetway's 915P-TWIN offers an exception with a mobo that the company says allows two users to share a single PC.
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Intel's Xeon Shows Its Stuff in 7 MotherboardsNov 11, 2004 - in Reviews
After getting whipped by AMD Opteron's performance specs during the past few months, a crop of Intel Xeon mobos offers possibilities that AMD doesn't. Will seven Socket 604 motherboards with features like SATA-II, PCI Express and DDR2 help Intel get its Xeon off the ropes?
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The Athlon64 Radeon Xpress: ATi's Latest Stab as a Chipset MakerNov 8, 2004 - in Reviews
ATi attempts to make it in the chipset world again, this time with an Athlon64 processor, the Radeon Xpress. While ATi does not tack on bells and whistles like Nvidia's GbE controller, we see how well ATi manages to pull off its meat and potatoes effort in the fast track Athlon64 chipset market.
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Elitegroup's 915P-A: AGP, PCI Express. Now AGP Express?Oct 27, 2004 - in Reviews
ECS has managed to implement an AGP compatible slot on a 915P motherboard, which it calls AGP Express. This lets upgraders move to Intel's latest system generation while continuing to use their AGP graphics card. How do they do it, and how well does it work?
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NVIDIA Rushes Into PCI Express With nForce4Oct 20, 2004 - in Reviews
Many notable features found their way into NVIDIA's brand new nForce4 chipset for the AMD' Athlon64 family. While these capabilities make it a very desirable product, the reference board was not able to live up to our expectations.
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Biostar, DFI, Epox Try to Big Up Socket 775 Mobos with Added FeaturesSep 22, 2004 - in Reviews
More and more mobo vendors apparently see something in Intel's Socket 775. THG tests the latest models, including the Biostar P4TAW Extreme, the new LANParty boards from DFI and the EP-5EGA+ from Epox. See if these mobos offer graphics, networking and other value-add interface capabilities that make the Socket 775 world a more interesting place.
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Asus Bios Unlocks P4 Overclocking PotentialSep 16, 2004 - in Reviews
Two Asus P5AD2 (925X) and P5GD2 (915P) mobos offer BIOS capabilities for socket 775 overclocking. THG walks you through Asus' 'CPU Lock Free' BIOS feature that allows boosting FSB speed by unlocking the Pentium 4 Prescott's multiplier.
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NVIDIA, SiS and VIA Bring on Chipsets for AMD Socket 939Sep 1, 2004 - in Reviews
NVIDIA, SiS and VIA have launched their chipsets based on Athlon64 processors. And as THG's benchmarks show, there are performance differences. So who delivers and who doesn't?
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For Sempron and Athlon XP: Soyo KT880 Dragon 2Aug 24, 2004 - in Reviews
Socket A is not dead, not even close - Soyo offers a board boasting premier features, as well as a VIA KT880 chipset, and it supports Athlon XP and Sempron processors.
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P4-Board with PCI-X: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Ultra-64Aug 17, 2004 - in Reviews
With PCI-X support and an integrated Ultra320 controller on a new Socket 478 mainboard for the P4, Gigabyte hopes to lure customers.
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Mobo Makers Try Again with Intel's 925X and 915P ChipsetsAug 10, 2004 - in Reviews
Heat problems associated with the 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 mired our first pre-retail launch tests of Intel's Socket 775 with DDR2 memory. Now that board makers have had over six weeks to work the kinks out, we look again at how mobos take the heat from Intel's 925X and 915P chipsets.
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Looking ahead to Intel's 925XE chipset and FSB1066Jul 19, 2004 - in Reviews
While Corsair, Crucial and Samsung are already starting to deliver DDR2-667, Intel is also getting ready to ship the 925XE this quarter, which offers 266 MHz FSB and will be the basis for the Pentium 4 720 with 3.73 GHz. We already took a look at what benefits the FSB clock increase will bring. Also, we benchmarked with 280 MHz FSB and DDR2-730.
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Intel's 865/875 Superior Performance Song Remains the SameJul 12, 2004 - in Reviews
The truth remains more evident than ever. As we documented last month, Intel's socket LGA 775 "platform of the future" does not match the performance of its previous line of 865/875 chipsets for socket 478. We now back our conclusion with an exhaustive battery of tests on no less than 16 mobos in combination with 13 memory modules.
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Intel Stakes Its Vision of the PC Future with 775 LaunchJun 19, 2004 - in Reviews
Welcome to Intel's brave new CPU world. In arguably its most ambitious processor and chipset architecture launch to date, Intel's new 775 architecture, comprising nine processors, offers enhanced features for audio, graphics, storage and other applications as Intel's sets its sights on becoming the CPU mainstay in the "the digital home world." But for the tried-and-true overclockers, gamers and enthusiasts, THG's benchmarks offer a glimpse of the truth amidst the multi-million dollar ad and marketing dollars.
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