Thomas Pabst

New features, new chip manufacturer, 3 press releases

Read the shocking truth about the reliability of 3D Winbench 98. Why is the i740 not as fast as even many editors falsely think? Including Interviews with Real3D, 3Dfx and nVidia about this issue

What will 100 MHz front bus bring Pentium II Systems?

See how the CPU influences the performance of the Voodoo2

Overclocking of the Voodoo2 is something that doesn't necessarily give you any advantage by on the other hand putting you at risk of system failure or board damage

The Diamond Monster 3D II, which I received directly from Diamond's Vice President Corporate Marketing and the European Marketing Manager is at final beta state

The most comprehensive 3D card performance evaluation 22 cards tested with four benchmarks and four different CPUs

Five Socket 7 AGP boards, new chipsets, new CPU

The work for this page has been the biggest project I have undertaken for this site to date. To be able to present you bullet proof facts I had to do three days of testing, measuring and tuning

I came across Kryotech the first time at the Microprocessor Forum 'affinity session'. Kryotech showed an Alpha based system running at the amazing speed of 767 MHz

Quite a lot of time has passed since my last update of the Overclocking Guide and now some really important things happened

The new revision 1.2 of the PA-2012 arrived today, Nov. 10 1997, as promised by FIC. This is the actual production revision, this board is the same as what you can buy in the shops soon.

The difficulty in choosing the right video accelerator card comes from the different needs we have for this piece of hardware

It was taking quite a while from VIA's announcement of the Apollo VP3 chipset until this first board arrived here for testing

FIC PA-2012

Intel's 440LX chipset is now available for almost 2 weeks and one motherboard manufacturer after the other is presenting their 440LX board to the market

New Cards, New Chips, Matrox' Reign Seems Over !

How does the little IDT CPU perform against Intel, AMD, IBM and Cyrix?

Bus Master DMA Drivers from Intel and Others Are Falsely Inflating Benchmark Results

It began with Intel's 430FX chipset, also known as 'Triton' chipset, late 1995. Its 'PIIX' (PCI ISA IDE Xcelerator) was offering an EIDE interface

It's not very long until the first AGP systems will hit the market. Intel will release its new 440LX Pentium II chipset with AGP support

How does a HDD work? The Interface, File Systems, Bus Master DMA

Last week I received a new 6x86MX CPU that turned out to be very overclockable

Quite a lot of new boards found their way to my lab since my last Socket 7 review and quite a few of them are using chipsets which are not from market leader Intel