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Earlier news here ======================================= 01/31/03 - More insights about AMD's delay This latest Athlon 64 postponement has generated lot of comments about SOI yield, Barton scalabity and AMD's potential to keep up with Intel. We have chosen the inquirer here and Forbes here, for the smart insights they both provide, among many that can be found here ======================================= 01/31/03 - ECS L7S7A2 SiS746 motherboard review According to OCworkbench, the L7S7A has the potential to replace aging K7S5A in overclockers' heart. Low price, good performances and new overclocking features could write the word success on the L7S7A's path to the future: "Why I say that L7S7A2 would be another success is because, it has included all the overclocking features that are not previously found on most ECS boards and they include FSB (1mhz), Vcore, VDimm adjustments, RAM timings". Enjoy that here. (Source Psy) ======================================= 01/31/03 - Three KT400 motherboards roundup From Belgium, three KT400 motherboards have met at VTR-Hardware for a polite but pitiless assets comparison. AbitAT7 MAX2, EPoX 8K9A2+ and Albatron KX400-8X with their respective weaponry, looked to be on the same level of performance but shown big difference in terms of cost and features. Read the detail fully translated here ======================================= 01/31/03 - Aopen AK77-8XN KT400 board review Aopen motherboard are not to common in Ireland and the board maker found no better ambassador than Eric from Techseekers to provide a complete review with enough photos, benchmarks and tips to convert the most skeptical to give the Aopen AK77-8XN a good try: "In fact in Ireland I have rarely seen AOpen board on sale. Which is a pity as you will soon see"... Here! ======================================= 01/31/03 - Opteron and Athlon 64 official dates AMD today announced that the worldwide introduction of its next-generation, 64-bit Opteron processor for servers and workstations will take place on April 22 in New York City. AMD plans to follow up with the introduction of the Athlon 64 processor for the desktop and mobile markets in September 2003. AMD also announced today that it will introduce the AMD Athlon XP processor 3000+ on February 10 and the AMD Athlon XP processor 3200+ in mid-2003. These processors, based on the core code-named Barton, feature additional integrated cache memory for industry-leading performance. Read more here ======================================= 01/31/03 - Shuttle SN41G2 nForce2 barebone review Thanks to GamePC, which provided us with our daily SN41G2 barebone review, we've learned some interesting facts about the animal. First off, its motherboard named FN41 isn't made by Shuttle itself and second, the upcoming GeForce FX isn't going to fit inside the tight box... Anyway, the reviewer remains ecstatic: "There really is just so much potential with these boxes, it's exciting to think of all the uses people will use these systems for". Read the rest here and enjoy more here ======================================= 01/31/03 - Gigabyte 7VAXP Ultra KT400 board review Dukgamer is having a quick look on the Gigabyte 7VAXP Ultra and offers us some pertinent comments that are worth a visit: "The 7VAXP Ultra comes in a very tightly packed box due to the amount of extras Gigabyte package with the motherboard". Enjoy the rest here ======================================= 01/30/03 - MSI 746F Ultra SiS746FX motherboard MSI unveils its new SiS746FX chipset based board named 746F Ultra. The board has a total of three DIMM slots, supporting up to 3.0GB DDR400, DDR333, DDR266 SDRAM, expansion slots are available for 5 PCI, and 1 AGP8X Port and has optional 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN and 5.1 Channel sound. Read more here ======================================= 01/30/03 - nForce2 motherboards roundup French Hardware.fr is making a jumbo nForce2 shootout where the six most popular motherboards sporting the nVidia chipset, are thoroughly compared. Here they are : Abit NF7-S, Asus A7N8X, Chaintech 7NJS, EPoX 8RDA+, Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro & MSI K7N2G-ILSR. Read the translation here (source Psy). ======================================= 01/30/03 - DDR 400 and DDR 433 reviews Viperlair here reckoned the daunting task of chosing the right memory for today's system and helps us with a complete review of OCZ PC2700 Rev 3.2 DDR400 while ExtremeMHz has worked for the most demanding overclocker with a full blast review of DDR433 CMX5 Corsair XMS3500 CMX512 right here ======================================= 01/30/03 - Intel scared of SiS - UMC - AMD alliance A report at Hoover Online explain that Intel may postpone licence of Pentium 4 chipset to SiS due to a growing fear of a threatening alliance of AMD, UMC and SiS: "Intel's nearest rival in the microprocessor market, raising Intel's fear that UMC, AMD and SiS may form a strong force that challenges its dominant status in the world processor market". Read that here and visit our Pinto Special here ======================================= 01/30/03 - Shuttle SN41G2 nForce2 barebone review Abbas Jaffarali at T-break is comparing the barebone SN41G2 to the MSI K7N2G nForce2 IGP motherboard and shows they both perform on the same level: " We feel that Shuttle have made an excellent decision in chosing nForce2 instead of any other chipset as it brings the best performance along with the best integrated video solution for the AMD platform at the moment". Read here and enjoy more SN41G2 links here. (source Psy) ======================================= 01/30/03 - Abit NF7-S nForce2 motherboard review Adrian's Rojakpot is delivering us what is supposed to be the definitive Abit NF7-S review and, in fact, he's not too far from that, with a massive 13 pages report loaded with tips, pictures, benchmarks and anatomical descriptions: "The NF7-S is a diamond in the rough. It is a good effort from ABIT but definitely not something to rest one's laurels on". Enjoy the masterpiece here (source Psy) ======================================= 01/30/03 - Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro nForce 2 review One more time, benchmarks at OCNZ show the performance advantage of the Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro compare to many other boards. On the dark side, OCNZ had some stability issue and couldn't overclock the board as much as wanted: "It is not too strong in the overclocking department, but hey, people do not buy a system/OEM board to overclock. Future BIOS releases may increase it stability somewhat". Read here ======================================= Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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