Tough Battle For Customers: With Features And Color

Deciding what to buy is not always easy for the go-getting user: a new board is on the cards and the platform's already been selected - a Pentium 4 with DDR memory. But these details are far too sketchy to ensure a failsafe choice. A handful of freaks have already decided for the exotic platform (Intel 850E) with Rambus memory in the last few weeks - and it wasn't such a bad choice. After all, the memory doesn't cost much more than the mass-produced DDR-SRAM, and the extra outlay for an 850 board is not going to break the bank. Alternatively, the fully developed Intel 845 chipset comes in a number of versions that work together with DDR266 and, in a recent development, even with fast DDR333 memory. And what's more, that's official. That's because, unofficially, the majority of boards in our last test (DDR333 for P4: 16 Boards with Intel 845G - Part II ) were already running on DDR333 including CL2 mode. There's no question that, particularly in conjunction with the new chipsets, the P4 platform has reached a stage of development of which its chipset rivals can only dream. Intel has returned to the big mass market, so to speak - for the first time since its legendary 440BX at the close of the 90s. In this benchmark test we'll be putting boards with 845GE and 845PE chipsets under the microscope.

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- Introduction
- Tough Battle For Customers: With Features And Color, Continued
- Price Check: Chipsets For Pentium 4
- From 3.06 GHz: New Cooler Design For The P4
- The Boards
- Asus P4PE/ GE: Now Fully Equipped At The Old Price, Continued
- Asus P4PE/ GE: Now Fully Equipped At The Old Price, Continued
- Aopen AX4PE/ GE Max: Silent Solution And Overclocking
- Aopen AX4PE/ GE Max: Silent Solution And Overclocking, Continued
- Aopen AX4PE/ GE Max: Silent Solution And Overclocking, Continued
- Biostar P4TGE: A Colorful Package With FSB Tricks
- Biostar P4TGE: A Colorful Package With FSB Tricks, Continued
- DFI NB78-HL: Meager And Low-priced
- Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra/ 8GE667 Pro: Mega-Equipment
- Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra/ 8GE667 Pro: Mega-Equipment, Continued
- Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra/ 8GE667 Pro: Mega-Equipment, Continued
- Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds: The Iwill P4HT-S
- Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds: The Iwill P4HT-S, Continued
- Storming The Market: Intel D845PEBT2
- Storming The Market: Intel D845PEBT2, Continued
- Fujitsu-Siemens D1527/ D1547: Made In Germany
- Fujitsu-Siemens D1527/ D1547: Made In Germany, Continued
- Fujitsu-Siemens D1527/ D1547: Made In Germany, Continued
- A Naked Candidate: QDI Platinix 2E/ 333
- Comparison Of SDRAM, DDR SDRAM And RDRAM Bandwidths
- Benchmarks Under Windows XP SP1
- DirectX 8 Games: 3D Mark 2001 SE
- MP3 Audio Encoding: Lame MP3
- SiSoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU And Multimedia
- Multimedia Performance: PC Mark 2002
- 3D-Rendering Performance: SPEC Viewperf 7
- Archiving: WinACE 2.2
- Overview: Features Of All Boards Tested
- Overview: Features For All Motherboards, Continued
- Overview: Features For All Motherboards, Continued
- Conclusion - Asus Offers The Best Mix