Introduction MSI’s K7 Master is a AMD 760 based motherboard, that is clearly targeted towards workstation users. In the -S variant, it features an onboard U160 SCSI Adaptec chip and both the Master and the Master-S offer an AGP Pro port with an additional 4-pin 12 V power connector. On… Continue reading
Introduction Up for review is the EP-8K7A, EpoX’s AMD760 based motherboard. Like all boards I know, which feature AMDs DDR chipset, it uses AMD’s 761 northbridge and the VIA 686B southbridge. Typical for EpoX, the board is packed with OC features. But in contrary to the older 8KTA3 model, for… Continue reading
Introduction The A7M266 is one of these boards that newer really grew on me. There are several great AMD760 based motherboards out there, which either look exciting, have great features or even both of these aspects. The A7M266 falls in neither of these categories. It just hasn’t got that little… Continue reading
Introduction Gigabyte’s GA-7IXE4 is a special motherboard in many regards. It is based on AMDs 750 “Irongate” chipset, which was originally developped for the Slot A Athlon “Classic” and the launch chipset for that platform. This also means, that the Irongate is roughly at least a full year older than… Continue reading
Introduction I was really looking forward to do this review. The EpoX EP-8KTA3 is part of my Win98 testing machine for many years now, where I test older graphics cards, soundcards and so on. I also use it to test SDR memory. It literally never let me down and never… Continue reading
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-… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Introduction If you think of Shuttle nowadays, you might be visualizing small formfactor PCs or, even more likely, the massively successful XPC line of “cube PCs”, which were sold like mad, especially in the mid-2000s and are still available with recent platforms. But before the XPCs became their biggest success,… Continue reading
Introduction My first Socket A machine was already based on the VIA KT333, so I missed the whole “Thunderbird / SD-RAM” era, with which Socket A began. Sure, I used at least two KT133A-based machines for a longer period of time in the past years, but I never really used… Continue reading
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 -… Continue reading
