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: MSI K7 Master (MS-6341)
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...
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...
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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.