6 September 2002, 00:00
If you're after a motherboard that is to be run at its rated FSB, and are looking to build a value Pentium 4-based PC, the SR7-8X would be a reasonable ...
6 August 2002, 00:00
Stability was excellent throughout the gamut of benchmarks and general testing. The 13 hours of full load, at strict memory timings, helped assuage fears of SiS engineers being too bold ...
29 July 2002, 00:00
The MSI KT3 Ultra-BR can be thought of as a seasonal update rather than a radically new motherboard.It carries over much of what we\'ve already seen in the MSI KT3 ...
26 July 2002, 00:00
While Intel positions the i845G as a business oriented chipset, EPoX seem to be squarely aiming this board at the regular consumer and the enthusiast. While there might be a ...
21 July 2002, 00:00
Before we talk about the boards themselves, familiarise yourself with the older DRAGON boards if you need to by taking a look here at our review of the older KT266 ...
11 July 2002, 00:00
The coming of Intel's Pentium4 Northwood B processors were generally greeted with enthusiasm from within the hardware community. The massive quad-pumped Front Side Bus (FSB) saw a leap from the ...
5 July 2002, 00:00
In the time since i845D\'s launch, we\'ve seen a few companies say hello with a DDR chipset for P4 including SiS and VIA and DDR is now the memory platform ...
25 June 2002, 00:00
VIA technologies, the Taiwanese chipset designer, have been working hard in recent years to firmly establish themselves n the motherboard ranks. This they have done with a good deal of ...
18 June 2002, 00:00
It was only natural for most manufacturers to update their Intel 845 DDR motherboards once Intel themselves announced a move from a 400 to a 533 MHz FSB for their ...
7 June 2002, 00:00
Asus are well known for quality of build in its products. The A7V333 motherboard is no exception. This particular motherboard is based on the VIA KT333 chipset which has the ...
2 June 2002, 00:00
It seems as if just a few short months have passed since SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) launched their competitive SiS645 Pentium4 DDR chipset to critical acclaim. SiS showed that there ...
20 May 2002, 00:00
It wasn\'t long ago that I looked at Abit\'s other nForce based solution, the NV7m. The NV7m is a micro ATX offering with limited expansion but it features everything that\'s ...
10 May 2002, 00:00
If you've ever owned an AMD Athlon processor in any of its incarnations, you'll no doubt know all about VIA technologies. VIA, the large Taiwanese chipset manufacturer, have produced Slot ...
6 May 2002, 00:00
Change seems to happen quickly in the personal computer market doesn't it? It took us over 10 years to break the magical 1GHz barrier in a consumer microprocessor but less ...
2 May 2002, 00:00
ABIT, the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, recently announced their MAX series of 'boards. The MAX-based motherboards, starting initially with the AT7 (AMD KT333CE chipset-based) and IT7 (Intel I845E chipset-based) aim to ...
1 May 2002, 00:00
Chipset support for multi processor systems is one thing but the CPU also needs to have certain features present before it can be used with a supporting chipset. To take ...
1 May 2002, 00:00
The keywords for this board when you are thinking about purchasing it are stability and high out of the box performance.
14 April 2002, 00:00
So what is the EPoX 8K3A like in practise after all the benchmarks are run and all the talk about KT333 is over? It's one of the most stable boards ...
14 April 2002, 00:00
We feel that Asus have done a pretty good job with the A7V266-E. It's well presented, has a multitude of features and is a champion in the stability stakes. The ...
8 April 2002, 00:00
The Epox 4SDA is rather barren on the features front. We didn't have RAID (athough the 4SDA+ does), decent on-board sound or additional features such as USB 2.0. We can ...
3 April 2002, 00:00
The pricing of the 645 Ultra is keen, too. We've been scouring the online retailing community and have seen it as low as £76, an excellent price for such a ...
3 April 2002, 00:00
I have been extremely impressed with the Abit TH7-II throughout testing, it has not failed once, and stability has been excellent. Despite pushing the limits of my CPU, and constantly ...
13 March 2002, 00:00
We at Hexus like to see just how far we can push our kit. MSI, historically, have not paid too much attention to the overclocking community. This seems to have ...
13 March 2002, 00:00
I noted recently how the tide of products we've looked at here at Hexus had become distinctly Intel dominated with boards and processor keeping us busy. Well it seems the ...
5 March 2002, 00:00
Performance using the GF3 in the AGP slot was excellent and the best we've seen from a Socket A AMD system using this processor however I can't see a GF3 ...
26 February 2002, 00:00
While focus on VIA's chipset rightfully draws attention with VIA being the main chipset supplier for AMD based systems, we shouldn't forget that another chipset has supported DDR333 memory for ...
21 February 2002, 00:00
The updated Dragon with the KT266A Northbridge is an excellent performer stuffed full of features and from this first look we have high hopes for the concluding part of the ...
11 January 2002, 00:00
So what do we think of the P4X266 compared to Intel's official DDR chipset and have Shuttle done the chipset justice? The chipset performs on a par with or even ...
11 January 2002, 00:00
The concept of 'designer' hardware seems to have sprung up fairly recently due to the increasing popularity of the case modification scene. Personal Computers have long since passed being the ...
7 January 2002, 00:00
Overall it was a pleasure to use, but nothing special, except in the performance. It seems like the extra time spent by Abit has paid off, not in feature count ...
23 December 2001, 00:00
MSI has taken the chipset and ran with it on this motherboard. New technologies, especially USB 2.0, are a welcome inclusion and ATA133 RAID will keep some people happy who ...
17 December 2001, 00:00
Overall it\'s another great effort from MSI. It\'s the best i845 board we\'ve seen as yet and since there are no more on the pile at Hexus it\'s the board ...
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