When Asus announced its SK8N motherboard for the AMD Opteron processor, there was a certain amount of confusion. After all, Opteron is a server chip that can run in two-way, four-way or eight-way configurations, yet this ...

AMD's Athlon is starting to lose its position as the cheap yet fast alternative to Pentium 4, but it's still a very effective processor as long as you combine it with a decent chipset and some ...

You get a lot in the box with the MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R. There are rounded IDE cables, Serial ATA cables, Serial ATA power adapters and three back brackets with a host of features and ports. The ...

Every motherboard in this group uses an Intel chipset and supports the new 800MHz FSB, apart from the Mercury NDSMx. It stands out even further as it is a micro-ATX design with integrated graphics, and to ...

This is the cheapest 875P motherboard in this group, but it'll still cost you £111 plus VAT, which is quite a bit more expensive than the 865PE contenders. Unless you happen to need ECC memory support, ...

ECS also chose the 865PE chipset, just like Albatron. However, the Photon PF1 is a relatively slow motherboard. We're only talking two or three per cent difference, but most Intel designs are nearly identical so it's ...

A LANparty is a gathering of gamers who all carry their PCs to the venue and proceed to 'frag' and 'vape' their way through the weekend against dozens or hundreds of their fellow geeks in networked ...

Our second motherboard is the Albatron PX865PE Pro II. Although you may not have heard of Albatron before, the people behind the company have been in the industry for many years, as it was set up ...

The most popular chipset in this group is the top-line Intel 875P that supports dual channel DDR memory and also the latest 800MHz FSB (Front Side Bus) of the Northwood C Intel Pentium 4 processor. Naturally ...

EQS ("Efficiency Quality Supplier") is fairly new to the UK market but has had a considerable presence in the European market for several years. Its manufacturing facility is Hong Kong/China-based and it has recently entered a ...

Some time ago Asus launched a black PCB version of its well-liked Pentium 3 board, the CUSL2. Now comes the new, very limited edition Black Pearl, based on another of the company's popular boards, the P4PE. ...

The SL-75DRV5 is the latest in the Soltek DRV series of popular and fast motherboards. Based on the VIA KT333 chipset, it utilises the new DDR333 technology and supports ATA/133 hard drives. It's built on Soltek's ...

The KT3 Ultra-ARU is about as feature laden as you could want a motherboard to be; the only thing missing is integrated LAN. The KT3 supports DDR333/PC2700 memory and ATA133 drives. Also featured are a Promise ...

One of the latest boards to come from Gigabyte is the feature rich 7VRXP, based around the VIA KT333 chipset. The board comes with Dual BIOS, USB2.0, RAID and integrated LAN. The Dual BIOS set up ...

Although it may be a new name to some, ECS has been around for quite some time, mainly in the OEM and system assembler markets. This version 3 of their popular Socket A based K7VTA3 motherboard ...

As is the norm with Asus boards, the A7V333 is littered with jumpers and the usual Dip-switches. With these and the BIOS, the board can be finely tuned to get the best possible performance. As for ...

Built around the VIA KT333 Northbridge and the VIA VT8233A Southbridge, AOpen's AK77-333 uses the now familiar AOpen "Black Beauty" PCB and can support ATA/133 as well as DDR333. The AK77-333 is a jumperless design with ...

Abit's AT7 is unlike any motherboard you may have seen in the past (with the exception of the IT7, the AT7's Intel sibling). One look at the I/O back plate tells you all you need to ...

If there's one thing that really ruins the PC's potential for use as an all-in-one entertainment centre, it's the noise. You might not be able to hear it in an office, but any home PC user ...

Following on from the successful KT266 chipset, VIA has launched another high performance chipset; the KT333. This is VIA's first chipset to offer support for DDR333 (PC2700) as well as DDR200/266 memory and is compatible with ...