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 ...

The TS-ABR4/NR is one of the latest boards manufactured by Transcend and comes with both onboard LAN and support for an ATA-100 RAID setup. The PCB is well built, but seems lacking in features until you ...

Soltek's latest P4 DDR board is the SL-85DRV3 and a colourful beast it is too, based on a red PCB. There's also a matt silver heatsink, plus red IDE ports and yellow CPU fan connectors. In ...

MSI produces three versions of the MSI 845 Ultra, with the ARU being the most advanced. It's loaded with extra features such as onboard RAID, USB 2.0 support and additional security. Built on a red PCB, ...

The Asus P4S 333 is a compact board; so compact that none of components has much breathing space. Because of this, care must be taken when adding the cooling sink for the CPU as on all ...

If you have a multitude of USB devices then the Asus P4B 266 is a board you should seriously consider, as it comes with support for both USB 1.1 and 2.0 standards. Add to this a ...

Built around the same "Black Beauty" PCB as the AX4B Pro (also reviewed here), the AX45V is one of a growing number of motherboards using the SIS 645 chipset with its support for the latest PC-2700 ...

Given the name "Black Beauty" by Aopen, the AX4B Pro is based around a black PCB and is a no frills motherboard that performs well. Feature wise it's pretty standard stuff; three 184-pin DDR DIMM ...

A growing trend among custom PC case-makers is the installation of windows in the side panels to highlight the internal components. In fact at least one manufacturer makes a totally see-through case. As if to pander ...

The MS-6341 K7 Master board from Microstar MSI is another ATX form factor board and very similar in layout to the Gigabyte board, but this one has an AMD 761 chipset that supports Direct Sound AC97 ...

Gigabyte produces two versions of this board. The micro-ATX version has only three PCI slots but makes up for it with an on-board AC97 sound controller that's fully SoundBlaster compatible, plus an AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) card ...

FIC, otherwise known as First International Computers, manufactures its AZ11E board to run with either Duron or Athlon processors. It's specified as suitable for use with the fastest 1.2GHz AMD chip using the 200MHz or 266MHz ...

AsusTek has produced many great motherboards in the last few years and the company's BX series was one of the most respected. It used software switching to adjust the processor speeds and its jumper-less design was ...

AOpen has made great inroads into the European marketplace in the last few years and is now supplying everything from CD-writers to computer cases. The AK73 Pro is the company's latest motherboard and is aimed at ...

Abit has an enviable reputation, especially amongst the over-clocking community, and the KT7A RAID board has all the features to support this status. This Socket A motherboard can use the Athlon and Duron processors, with up ...

Intel claims a lot for the Pentium 4, its latest and probably last 32-bit processor. It's intended as a revamp of the Pentium III, to tide the world's largest chip producer over until its 64-bit design ...

Reviews of processors are usually out of date as soon as they are written. For example, AMD has recently announced its new 1.2GHz chip with DDR support in the chipset (see our News section for more ...