Thomas Pabst

The motherboard is the foundation of any PC. All the critical subsystems, including the CPU, system chipset, memory, system I/O, expansion bus, and other critical components run directly off the motherboard. Likewise, the interconnections among these components are laid into the motherboard itself.

By now we are pretty much at the end of the sweet days of overclocking. The upcoming Intel chips Katmai and the socketed Celeron will not allow any form of overclocking anymore and it would be no surprise if even the well known Pentium II and Celeron chips we know now, will soon also be equipped with Intel's new overclocking protection. AMD seems to consider the same, so that there will be hardly any new chip available that will allow us to tweak its performance by running it faster than it is supposed to.

Some people seem to have doubts about the temperature that I measured of the Rage 128 chip.

Impressive was the presentation of the Rage 128 back then in Toronto at the end of August. The upcoming Rage128 3D accelerator chip would be an amazing 2D/3D solution

AMD's announcement of their upcoming K7 CPU at the Microprocessor Forum 98 in San Jose could indeed mark a major change of the x86 CPU market in 1999.

Times are changing in the graphics business. Prices of graphics cards are dropping and this might change a lot in the card makers business.

Yesterday (Aug 24, 1998) Intel announced three new processors, the Pentium II 450 and two new Celeron CPUs 'Celeron 300 A' and 'Celeron 333'

What's the best 3D chip for you? Is 3Dfx still on top of things or is NVIDIA taking over the lead?

Real3D's critical comments to Bert's article. Is AGP a great improvement? How does the i740 stick up?

Half a year has passed since our last Socket7 motherboard review and a lot has changed in the last months once again

The next Pentium II core at 100 MHz FSB will be Katmai , starting to ship in Q1/99, initially at 450 MHz, then soon moving to 500 MHz

My preview of Banshee, Savage3D and RIVA TNT was causing quite a stir, just the way I love it.

The late summer and fall 1998 will bring us a bunch of new 3D graphics chips, most of them already announced for quite a while

This year 1998 is the year of the Intel processor announcements. After the Pentium II at 100 MHz FSB and the Intel Celeron CPU, June 29 was the day when the Pentium II Xeon was announced, Intel's new high end solution for the workstation and server market.

Last year in April AMD was able to offer the fastest Windows x86 CPU for a very short period until Intel released the Pentium II processor

Intel won the run and is the first to ship a chipset that is running at 100 MHz system or front side bus clock.

I've fiddled around with BX chipset boards and 100 MHz front side bus Pentium II CPUs for quite a few weeks now. Playing around with all these components is one thing, but making you able to understand how it works and making myself feeling confident to write a meaningful article also requires a lot of reading

Important things you should know about Pentium II and Celeron, Klamath and Deschutes

Including Matrox MGA-G200 and first look of NVIDIA RIVA ZX

A comparison of all currently available PC CPUs was more than overdue and although it's a horrible amount of work I felt forced to finally do one after Intel released not only a CPU for the high end but as well for the low end market

Intel launches a new chipset called 440BX. It is the first official product in the PC business that offers a system bus of 100 MHz. Intel calls it 'front side bus'

Intel launches a new chipset called 440BX. It is the first official product in the PC business that offers a system bus of 100 MHz. Intel calls it 'front side bus'

Performance, Overclocking, SLI

The Monster 3D II was the first Voodoo2 board ever technically reviewed

Creative won the race of which company will be first on the market with a Voodoo 2 3D accelerator.