Motherboards: Reviews - Page 30

Athlon KX133 Motherboard Roundup - A Nail-Biting Affair

Contrary to the AMD750/Irongate, the new KX133 Athlon chipset from VIA offers AGP 4x and a memory clock up to 133 MHz. But not all test candidates hav...

Motherboard Comparison Epox EP-7KXA vs. Asus K7V

Finally there are more and more Athlon motherboards with VIA's Apollo KX133 chipset becoming available. Before our big KX133 roundup goes online Tom h...

Showdown at 133 MHz FSB - Part 2, The Real McCoy

This time we showed no mercy. We included the good old BX-chipset and ran it at 133 MHz FSB. It had to stick up against no less than Intel's great i84...

Performance Showdown at 133 MHz FSB - The best Platform...

Which chipset supports Intel's latest Pentium III processors best? Is it Intel's 820 chipset with the super expensive RDRAM? Is it the same chipset, b...

The Impact of the AGP-Speed

Does AGP1x vs. AGP2x vs. AGP4x make a significant difference in performance? We tried to find an answer on two different platforms for each, Pentium I...

NVIDIA's New NT-Drivers for Athlon on KX133

Only hours after my review of VIA's Apollo KX133 chipset had been published, NVIDIA sent me new GeForce drivers for this new chipset. My complaints ab...

New Hope For Athlon - The VIA Apollo KX133 Chipset

VIA's long delayed Apollo KX133 Chipset for Athlon-processors is finally shipping. Will this chipset live up to VIA's hype? Will it breathe some more...

AMD's Super Bypass - AMD Improves their 750 Chipset

AMD quietly enables a new feature in their recent Northbridge. This new enhancement reduces some of their memory bottlenecks within their 750 chipset.

The RDRAM Avenger - Intel's i840 Chipset

So you want to have Coppermine and you decided to spend big bucks on RDRAM. Then don't make the mistake and buy i820-platforms! i840 is what Coppermin...

Intel i820 Chipset Review

Intel stumbles just before releasing its long awaited i820 Chipset. Does the i820's performance compare to the 440BX and VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset?