Although the expected buzz at the upcoming Computex Taipei 2005 show from May 31 to June 4 will be the competing dual-core desktop CPU offerings from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), motherboard vendors have warned that the new processors may not help motherboard sales in the short-term. Read more
Despite demand for chipsets picking up this quarter, Taiwan vendors including Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies may soon face increased competition from Nvidia and Intel, as Nvidia aims to push its C51-series chipsets in the mainstream Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) K8 market and Intel may soon begin sampling its mainstream 945 chipsets, according to sources in the motherboard industry. Read more
Despite Samsung Electronics officially predicting that the DRAM market will not balance out until the end of the year, sources at the company claim that global DRAM demand stands a good chance of picking up next quarter. Read more
Second-tier motherboard makers Acorp Electronics will withdraw from the motherboard market and instead migrate into the production of networking devices such as ADSL2+ modems, the company said after a provisional shareholders meeting on Thursday, March 10. Read more
Three dramatically different builds face off in a show of performance, defining the real value of each. Our mainstream system is designed to meet the needs of most users. Who should spend more and who can live with less? Read more
For the second to last day of our System Builder Marathon series, we add a $500 gaming PC to the mix. It's not going to be as quick as our other two builds, but we think Paul was able to get some serious value from this thing. Read more
We're following up yesterday's $4,500 behemoth with a more affordable $1,500 mid-range build. Let's see what sort of performance (and overclocking headroom) you can get when you spend one third of the money. Read more
This month's System Builder Marathon spreads the system prices out even further to $4,500, $1,500, and $500. Is today’s $4,500 system really worth three times as much as an upper-mainstream performance machine? Read more
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