Review: Asus A7A266-E
Introduction The Asus A7A266(/-E) is probably the most common ALi MAGiK 1 based motherboard and also the only model released by a major company. The -E Version of the board (which we are taking a look upon today) features the final revision “C1" of the ALi MAGiK 1 chipset. This...
ATI Rage 128 Pro OEM (Rage 128 Pro) (109-60600-10)
Overview / Specs Chip Type: Chip Clock: Memory Clock: Memory Size: Memory Type: Memory Interface: ATI Rage 128 Pro 120 MHz 120 MHz 16 MB SDRAM 64 Bit This is a pure OEM model. Despite the two free soldering points for additional memory chips, I am pretty confident that there...
Review: Asus A7N266-C
Introduction The Asus A7N266-C in this review features nVidia's very first motherboard chipset, called “nForce”. The chipset is a classic two-chip solution, with several versions existing of both the northbridge and the southbridge. Asus brought various versions of the A7N266 to the market, with different combinations of the available north-...
Review: Asus A7V133
Introduction I've had many A7V133 boards in the past 15-20 years and I have only good memories associated with them. Although it's been some time since I last tinkered with an A7V133, I still remember that the dot trailing some PCB revision numbers is very important. A short research on...
Review: IWill XP333-R
Introduction The XP333-R is IWill's second mainboard using the ALi MAGiK 1 chipset. The big difference to the older KA266-R is, that IWill's XP333-R already uses the revised C1 stepping of the ALi MAGiK 1 chipset. The PCB was completely redesigned and faster DDR333 memory is now officially supported -...
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REVIEWS: Classic hardware revisited, reviewed and evaluated with today's knowledge of things.
Welcome to RETROHARDWARE-REVIEWS!
I spent the past ten months creating this place as well as enough content for the launch and decided to go live now, even though the content is only at ~95% of what I planned it to be for the start. But my promised, extended launch date was January of 2023, and I don't want to wait any longer.
For now, the reviews found here are limited to Socket A motherboards. For the future, you can expect a neverending stream of hardware (primarily graphics cards) that I collected in over 20 years. The main focus will be hardware from ~1997 to ~2007 and I can promise reviews of rare and interesting stuff and excessive comparisons and benchmarks, which weren't done in this kind of way yet.