|
|||||||
 |
Motherboards.org Reviews
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-23-2005 Category: Hardware Key features of the case include toolless installation, a 120mm front fan and a aluminum/steel hybrid metal composition. This case retails for $79 USD,making it a value proposition compared to other Coolermaster cases retailing fo
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-19-2005 Category: Motherboards The EPoX 8NPA SLI is a rather unique motherboard in the scheme of things today. Owners of a Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 754 CPU or other Socket 754 CPUs may be looking for an upgrade to PCI Express video cards without upgrading the CPU
Author: Tulatin Date: 12-09-2005 Category: Hardware While the initial gain of 8MHz isn’t anything special, it still is enough to garner many an overclocker’s attention. To be honest with you, the best market for these Heatsinks is on the value oriented video cards that don’t alread
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-06-2005 Category: Hardware Another point about ATI cards is the fact that I prefer the 2D of the X1800XL to the 2D on the 7800GTX or any 6800 series card. The text is noticeably clearer at 2048x1536 32-bit 60Hz on the X1800XL and a Samsung 19” CRT monitor.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-04-2005 Category: Motherboards From a features point of view, the EVGA nForce4 SLI Edition is an excellent board. With onboard Power and Reset buttons leading the way along with SLI capabilities, the board scored a 35 on the Features chart. That and a Lifetime
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-29-2005 Category: Hardware NVIDIA has hit a home run with the 6800GS and the XFX version of the card is the best of them. With a stable overclock to 521MHz for the core/1.19GHz for the memory, the XFX 6800GS is an excellent buy for $249 MSRP.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-28-2005 Category: Motherboards The ASUS A8N32-SLI scores higher than 40 on our features section. Extra points are given for SLI, Wireless Networking, Dual x16 PCI Express slots working together at the same time. Stability during testing was excellent with no pr
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-21-2005 Category: Hardware Performance on the card is exemplary. The X1800XL core performs more or less on-par with NVIDIA's 7800GT, ATI's solution has the benefit of better performance with dynamic branching, but NVIDIA's solution has the benefit of a high
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-15-2005 Category: Motherboards The GIGABYTE GA-K8N51PVMT-9 board is an excellent board for the mainstream market as it is priced right and has enough features to make it a solid board for business. On-board graphics are perfect for the non-game oriented user.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-13-2005 Category: Hardware The 7800GTX 512MB is the fastest card I've ever seen, NVIDIA's 7800GTX 256MB card nearly provides the same performance as ATI's high-end, the X1800XT, but this card takes performance to the next level, nearly equaling two 7800GTs
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-09-2005 Category: Hardware Things like the included bundle and the new Call of Duty 2 game deal are things that will even further a users interest when deciding in what card to purchase. XFX is one of the very few partners participating in the COD 2 campai
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-02-2005 Category: Motherboards The ASUS P5DL2-VM board is an interesting contrast. At a retail price of $109, this board is excellent for the consumer looking for a low-priced, high performance board. Feature-wise it's an ok board, with the noticeable absence o Author: Tulatin Date: 10-29-2005 Category: Hardware While heat pipes are essentially nothing special in this day and age, their implementation and efficiency on this heatsink is quite a bit above par, allowing this heatsink to dissipate nearly as much heat as beasts twice its size.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-25-2005 Category: Motherboards ECS is not only one of the biggest sellers of motherboards worldwide, sometimes they actually make products that are worthy of attention and priced right as well. The KN1 Extreme SLI falls right into that category, having solid fe
Author: Tulatin Date: 10-20-2005 Category: Hardware With the innovative mounting solution, high quality, attractive peripherals, good performance and simple mounting systems, Gigabyte has come out with a solid heatsink, something easily recommended for someone looking for decent co
Author: Tulatin Date: 10-18-2005 Category: Hardware With the dominance of the performance charts on its own level, Kingston's KHX-6000 has proven itself to be one of those products which, for it's time would have been a legend within its niche market. While it's not quite up to tod
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-17-2005 Category: Hardware The new 7800GT cards are really a solid piece of equipment for gamers and Gigabyte does a good job of bringing theirs to market. A solid bundle and performance are what to expect with this one.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-14-2005 Category: Motherboards From my point of view, the ABIT AW8-Max is an excellent value and well worth the purchase. The AW8-Max does offer excellent performance and a solid software bundle however that should please many would-be users.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-10-2005 Category: Hardware The new line of 7800GT cards is making quite the market sweep as they perform almost as good as their sibling the well touted 7800GTX. ASUS offers a solid card with adequate overclocking and a decent package.
Author: Tulatin Date: 10-06-2005 Category: Hardware In the VapoChill Micro we can notice a few distinct and interesting design changes over the traditional heat pipe sink, the first and most obvious of these changes is the size of the heat pipes.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-29-2005 Category: Motherboards ASRock's 939DUAL-SATA2AASR is an interesting board to be sure. Not many Socket 939 boards exist today that can take an M2 CPU. The idea of a "Future CPU slot" is an attractive one.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-26-2005 Category: Motherboards ABIT's NI8-SLI motherboard brings to the table a lot with the features and performance that enthusiasts want from a new motherboard. ABIT has done a wonderful job and I especially like the quiet cooling, as the Q-OTES system reduc
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-16-2005 Category: Motherboards EPoX has been around for quite some time now and every so often they produce a real winner of a product. Their new 9NPA + SLI motherboard is one of those products: fast, stable, ergonomic, and overclockable, a product worthy of yo
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-13-2005 Category: Hardware ATI has always had the lion's share of market when it comes to home multimedia VGA cards and the new AIW PCIx X800XL continues in that trend. It has all the features that made the All-In-Wonder brand the choice of millions of cons
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-12-2005 Category: Hardware If space is a concern for your PC, then the AOpen XC Cube MZ855 II is sure-fire winner. Using the 855GM chipset, the unit runs off the Pentium M processor and remains cool even in the small confines of the XC Cube.
Author: Tulatin Date: 09-08-2005 Category: Hardware While it's one of the most important components of any system, memory is unfortunately another of the items afflicted with a dual identity. After all, perhaps one of the hottest enthusiast topics right now is how much memory bandw
Author: Niso Levitas Date: 09-01-2005 Category: Motherboards If you have decided on the Intel CPU and do not care about having the SLI setup of nVidia cards, this is the best motherboard money can buy, period. Top performance, serious over clocking with easy GUI, the most detailed BIOS sett
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-31-2005 Category: Hardware ASUS manufactures video cards from both NVIDIA and ATI chipsets. Last year NVIDIA launched the 6800 series of cards, with ASUS providing solutions for each announced product. In June, NVIDIA launched their next generation Shader M
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 08-29-2005 Category: Hardware Swiftech has been a pioneering force in the PC cooling business for many years now and their new H2O-S and 120-F continue in the trend that has made them one of the top players in this game. Both systems offer great cooling at a m
Author: Tulatin Date: 08-12-2005 Category: Hardware Considering the furnace which is the modern Pentium 4 processor, the market for cooling this hotplate is immense, but the task daunting. Today on the bench we've got Evercool's 775 cooler, a radial design undoubtedly inspired by I
Author: Tulatin Date: 08-09-2005 Category: Hardware Corsair is known as the king of overclocking memory and their new PC2-6400 continues in that trend. Although the STD timings turned out not to be all too impressive, the ceiling of the memory in fact was, running at an impressive
Author: Tulatin Date: 08-08-2005 Category: Hardware Crucial has once again showed strength in their high-end DDR2 performance memory. This time we take their new PC-5300/ DDR667 for a spin in the lab and the results are very positive indeed. Read the review to get all the details.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-08-2005 Category: Motherboards We previously published this as a preview a few weeks ago, but with the release of the retail board comes the full review. The eVGA nForce 4 standard is stable, but a bit pricey. Read the full review and see what we found out afte
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-04-2005 Category: Motherboards ABIT is famous for their overclocking features. The new AN8-SLI continues that trend and adds a few more new designs to their board to help push it over the top. An Editor's Choice product worthy of the enthusiast's attention.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-31-2005 Category: Motherboards ECS has done a good job with KN1 Extreme, as it has many features that will be appealing to the both the standard user and the enthusiasts crowd. Overclocking is adequate and the Top Hat BIOS feature is a very definite plus giving
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-29-2005 Category: Hardware The new 7800 series from NVIDIA is currently dominating the gaming arena as far as sheer performance and features go and the Gigabyte GV-NX78X256V-B is a solid addition to this lineup and offers a few things others have left out.
Author: Tulatin Date: 07-25-2005 Category: Hardware GIGABYTE is a top-tier manufacturer known for their great motherboards and VGA cards. Recently they have expanded their product lineup in a variety of directions and the AirCruiser G Router is one those products. The AirCruiser tu
Author: Tulatin Date: 07-15-2005 Category: Motherboards Indeed, the K8SLI is quite a strange board. I'm sure that you'll agree with me once you see the pictures - the diminutive size of this board is something of awe and wonder.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-14-2005 Category: Motherboards NVIDIA is now not only dominating the AMD chipset market, they are beginning to take over the Intel market as well.The nForce 4 for Intel is a solid reliable chipset and GIGABYTE does a great job with the GA-8N-SLI, it offers a gr
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-13-2005 Category: Hardware The new PCIe 7800GTX from XFX is a superb combination of performance and package contents. In SLI mode these cards have no peer. As a single card solution, 1280X1024 resolutions are handled easily with all the features turned to
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-06-2005 Category: Motherboards Asus has done another excellent job with their P5ND2-SLI Deluxe motherboard. Performance, features, and stability all exceed the norm for motherboards based in this pricing category (955X). This board has so many features, in fact
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-30-2005 Category: Hardware In what is perhaps one of the last releases of single-core CPUs, both AMD and Intel have a high-end solution that offers better performance than any CPU previously released. The AMD FX-57 and the Intel 670 go head to head in a bat
Author: Tulatin Date: 06-27-2005 Category: Hardware In the end game, Spire comes up with an attractive offering at an attractive price, and pending that you don't plan for any heavy duty overclocking, this would make a good replacement for the stock heatsink provided with your CPU.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-24-2005 Category: Hardware The positives of the Chaintech 6600GT are the performance, the features, and the inclusion of Painkiller. Performance of the card in single and SLI mode is slightly above that of the XFX 6600GT cards I reviewed earlier this month.
Author: Tulatin Date: 06-24-2005 Category: Motherboards In the end, our impressions of the Fatal1ty AA8XE are mixed. On one hand you have the OTES cooling for both mofsets and ram, the attractive colour scheme, and the kick ass surround lighting. On the other hand however, we run into
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-16-2005 Category: Hardware XFX is a company that started making NVIDIA based video cards a couple of years ago. A relative newcomer as a manufacturer of video cards, XFX has made a name for itself as being one of the only companies that manufacture NVIDIA c
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-13-2005 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte is know for loading their boards up with as many features as possible and the GA-8I955 Royal is no exception as it comes with enough features and package content to satisfy even the most demanding user.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-08-2005 Category: Motherboards Chaintech has been making motherboards for a long time now and they provided the board for our first review. The new ZNF4 Ultra is a budget board that packs a lot of punch for the AMD Socket 939 platform.
Author: Tulatin Date: 06-02-2005 Category: Hardware Crucial is one of the premiere memory companies that has become a household name in the PC industry. Today we take a look at their 1GB matched kit of DDR2 Ballistix memory modules. Fast and overclockable, the Ballistix series of m
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-31-2005 Category: Hardware If you're looking for the highest performing video card setup on the market today, a SLI system is the way to go. Two 6800GTs provide higher performance than a single 6800 Ultra or a X850XT PE. ASUS's bundle, and high quality, mak
Author: Tulatin Date: 05-26-2005 Category: Hardware Taking the next logical leap from the design of the XMS pro modules, Corsair chose to add on a parametric LCD display, as well as backlit logos, all while maintaining the activity bars.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-26-2005 Category: Motherboards ECS has been a big name in the mid level motherboard market for years and now wants to step up to the major leagues. The new PF88 is a hybrid motherboard that allows the use of either LGA775 or Socket 9 CPUs via its A9S mini inser
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-16-2005 Category: Motherboards Although the 925X is starting to show a little age many people still find it a viable chipset for their needs. The Albatron 925X is a middle of the road motherboard that offers all the basics without a lot of fluff.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-10-2005 Category: Hardware ATI has finally crossed the 256MB boundary, but does it really make all that much of a difference? We ran the ATI X800XL 512MB Edition through a gauntlet of tests and have all the information you need. This will be the first card
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-09-2005 Category: Hardware Although both Intel and AMD have entered the Dual-Core CPU arena, it was the AMD 4800+ CPU, which showed the best results here in the lab. We tested these CPUs against each other using the best and most performance savvy parts we
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-08-2005 Category: Motherboards Asus has once again made an outstanding board in the A8N Deluxe. Based on the nForce4 SLI chipset this board has what it takes to please even the most discerning user. Supporting the new Dual-Core CPUs from AMD is only one of the
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-02-2005 Category: Hardware The first thing I noticed upon opening the box of the card was the cooling. Gigabyte installed a heat sink covering the VPU and a small portion of the PCB instead of a cooling fan and heat sink found on other cards. The card also
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-29-2005 Category: Hardware AMD released their first Socket 754 Sempron early last year in the form of the 3100+ and their follow up chip the 3300+ continues their budget CPU line. Faster than the higher clocked Celeron, the Sempron offers solid performance
Author: John Chen Date: 04-28-2005 Category: Hardware You might ask, if triple 120mm radiators are ideal, why wasn't this used in the past? If this triple radiator is great, why not make a quadruple?
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-26-2005 Category: Hardware S3 was the very first company to actually have a VGA card claiming to be 3D compatible in the form of their S3 Virge chipset. Ten years later we still see S3 in the VGA game and this time they introduce the S18 Gamma Chrome series
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-22-2005 Category: Hardware Many companies these days find themselves dabbling in the liquid cooling arena. Thermaltakes Big Water closes the gap between hardcore and user friendly and offers a liquid cooling unit that is functional as well as ergonomic.
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-12-2005 Category: Hardware NVIDIA has come a long way from their VGA roots and now has emerged as one of the fastest growing chipset manufacturers in the world. The new nForce4 SLI Intel Edition has all the makings of a great chipset and now brings SLI tech
Author: John Chen Date: 04-10-2005 Category: Hardware I've gotten to the point where I just lay everything out in the open and use a motherboard tray for support. Now here is something that all overclocker's and reviewers will be interested in, a small workstation assembly that is su
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-06-2005 Category: Motherboards Epox has once again has made a board that offers solid performance and a good price point. The Epox 9NPA+ is from the new line of nForce4 Ultra motherboards for the Socket 939 platform and adds further support for AMD's flagship A
Author: John Chen Date: 04-01-2005 Category: Motherboards Today's offering from Foxconn is the WinFast 755FXK8AA-8EKRS motherboard. The motherboard is based on the SiS 755FX and is to be considered a high performance motherboard at a low price.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-01-2005 Category: Motherboards Foxconn tends to release products based upon available chipsets from a variety of manufacturers including SIS, NVIDIA, Intel, and VIA. With the announcement of NVIDIA's nForce4, Foxconn has released three different models of this
Author: John Chen Date: 03-28-2005 Category: Hardware The cooler we have today is Gigabyte's most recent release. The cooler is not intended for high performance and doesn't come with a high price. The Neon Cooler 775-BL is a budget cooler intended for budget enthusiasts or for simpl
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-21-2005 Category: Hardware What we have here is basically an overclocked X800 XT PE that although fast offers little room for overclocking as it is pushed to its extreme from the factory. Stable and compatible with both the latest Intel and AMD platforms th Author: John Chen Date: 03-18-2005 Category: Hardware In this round of DDR2 competition we take a look at some of the contenders who did not make the last roundup like, Crucial, Corsair and OCZ. I think you will be very surprised at the results.
Author: D'Arcy Lemay Date: 03-16-2005 Category: Hardware The new Kinston HyperX KHX-4300 DDR memory came across as a product with two sides to its performance. On the AMD platform it showed only adequate performance, where on the P4 platform it showed real strength. A mixed bag of resul
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 03-14-2005 Category: Motherboards The NF4 chipset has a lot to offer in itself and that combined with all the features of this board equate to a very strong motherboard package that has what it takes to please almost any hardcore user.
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-10-2005 Category: Hardware As far as features go, the A-I-W X800XT is the most feature-rich multimedia video card on the market today. You get an excellent television tuner, the speed and features of one of the highest performing video cards on the market,
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 03-08-2005 Category: Hardware Few cases actually make me take a second look, and it is even more rare for me to really like one. Thermaltake's Armor is one seriously solid case that boasts ergonomic installations, a sleek modern design and form factor, and fle
|
|
|||||
