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...
Review: Gigabyte GA-7DXR
Introduction Prior to the GA-7DXR, Gigabyte released another AMD760 based motherboard - the GA-7DX(C). While the name suggest, that “the R" is just a slightly refined version of the vanilla GA-7DX (which was one of the first, if not the first overall AMD760 based motherboards released in its “C” version),...
Review: EpoX EP-8KHAL+
Introduction The 8KHAL+ was a very affordable KT266A board. Compared to EpoX' flagship KT266A offering, the 8KHA+, it has only five PCI slots, lacks the POST code display and features only a 2-phase CPU VRM. Despite the fact, that the 8KHAL+ was a product that was clearly aimed towards the...
Review: Elitegroup K7S5A
Introduction Today we'll take a look on the (in)famous Elitegroup K7S5A. Initially, I didn't want to review it as part of my Socket A roundup, since I associate a lot of bad memories with this board. Back in the day, I worked in a computer repair shop and we got...
Review: Shuttle AK32A
Introduction So here we have the Shuttle Spacewalker AK32A, which is an evolution of the AK32 I already reviewed here. The only difference is the updated chipset, which is now the VIA KT266A, as opposed to the KT266, that is used on the Shuttle AK32. The thing that is really...
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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.