06-May-04, 12:17 PM
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| |  Affiliate Reviews: Motherboards and RAM
SOYO Dragon 2 v1.0 and ASUS K8V Deluxe post on www.motherboards.org  | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | | | ASUS is still number one in both the retail channel and in the eyes of the enthusiast as seen in their volume sales numbers and the attention they get worldwide. From the start, this has been the company to keep your eye on as they have stayed number one since their onset in the early eighties always managing to garner the attention of the masses. I personally use the P4C-800 Deluxe with my 3.2GHz EE so I can't really say anything too bad about them. The NVIDIA solution as well as the VIA boards have so far had unappealing on-board audio solutions until now. NVIDIA's new NF3 chipset boards will offer better options than previous versions, but still not the quality level of ASUS boards using ADI's SoundMax solution. VIA's Eden audio solution seems to be nothing more than a pipe dream and has yet to make an appearance on any board I have seen to date. | |  | |  | | Review: Soyo P4I875P DRAGON 2 V1.0 | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | Well, weÂ’ve seen all that the P4I875P DRAGON 2 V1.0 has to offer, and as usual it is now time to round it all up into a nice summary and call it a day. LetÂ’s start off with the usual topic of overall system stability. The overall stability of the system was quite good with only one crash throughout stress testing and our use with the board. As is the norm for our stress tests, we have been running multiple distributed computing programs in the background while gaming and taking part in other processor intensive applications for several days non-stop. The P4I875P DRAGON 2 V1.0 performed stably and gave us few problems, only when we started to overclock beyond the proper boundaries did we start to see the board get flaky. | | | | | | | EPoX 8KDA3+ nForce3 250Gb | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | VIDIA's first out of the blocks with the nForce3 250Gb chipset. Ryszard took a detailed look in his chipset perusal here. Taking the most salient points mentioned, the nForce3 250Gb eclipses its predecessor by offering native SATA support, Gigabit Ethernet (still needs a PHY, though), a novel in-built hardware firewall, faster HyperTransport link, and adding the all-important AGP/PCI bus lock. There's enough new native support to warrant a chipset revision. There's still things we'd like to have seen added, the nForce2's excellent APU and FireWire support, for example. | | | | | | | VIA K8T800 Pro Chipset Preview | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | VIA is ready once again with a new chipset for the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX market. The K8T800 Pro chipset offers new features such as 1 GHz LDT (HyperTransport) bus, locked AGP and PCI buses and support for 939 pin processors. These new features do entail a small increase in performance over the previous VIA K8 chipset, but not by a significant margin in any real world test. For a further explanation of what these additions and changes to the VIA K8T800 Pro do for the platform, check out our expert review as well. | | | | | | | OCZ PC3200 Performance Series 2GB Dual Channel review @ OcPrices.com | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | ""It wasn't too many years ago that 2GB was big for a hard drive. Now HDDs are
hitting 100GB per platter, and (yes this nostalgia fest is going somewhere)
enthusiast DDR is hitting 2GB in dual channel kits. Today we've got OCZ's PC3200 2GB
performance series kit up for testing. The PC4200 Performance that I tested awhile
back had some fantastic performance and overclockability. Does the PC3200 2GB follow suit? " | | | | | | | Review: Corsair PC4000 Pro Series RAM | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | ""Due to the current state of the DRAM market, we've seen prices skyrocket to levels that haven't been seen in some time making these high-end modules extremely expensive in many cases. Today, we'll be taking a good look at Corsair's DDR400 PRO modules, placing them up against OCZ's own PC4000 solution. Which RAM will come out on top?" | | | | | | | |
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