ABIT AirPace WLP-01

Advantages: Great value for money, solid connection, antenna on a cable, access point mode.
Disadvantages: If you don't have a PCI-Express slot, don't buy it!

...The Abit AirPace Wi-Fi card is, according to Abit, the first wireless card to use a PCI-Express x1 interface. But is it any good? - - Specifications - - This card works in 801.11b and 801.11g modes, so you will get a fair range and speed with modern wireless routers. I'm using mine with a Orange Livebox and it works well with that, so any of the free routers given away by your internet provider or any good brand router (like Linksys or Belkin) should work with it. It has an external antenna on a lead about 95cm long, so you will be able to move the antenna about to find the best signal, something very useful if your PC is placed in an alcove or under a desk where it cannot find your network. It certainly helped me. - - Box and contents - - The box contains the card itself, which is small and will fit into any case. The box also... Read review

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Advantages: Board layout, feature rich, performance
Disadvantages: Latest 16 BETA 1 BIOS won't allow using above 3GB with all of it being visible

.... Picky users may be somewhat disappointed that both gigabit NIC's are PCI and not PCIe but unless you're using this board for a high performance network server, the lower network throughput won't matter. There's also no onboard wireless as found on Asus boards such as the P5K Deluxe or higher. It makes for a wonderful quad core overclocker, can take a Q6600 to 3.6GHz or beyond easily providing the CPU yield is good enough. The only negative feature of this board in terms of overclocking is that its vdroop is pretty large at around 0.1V under load. This can be fixed with soldering, alternatively it just means using a higher Vcore setting in the BIOS. Both C1E and Speedstep can be enabled at 400MHz FSB hence the Vcore is lowered when the system is idle anyhow - no need for concern with running your CPU at a high Vcore. Abit is still to fix... Read review

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Advantages: Raw speed and power
Disadvantages: you need to be a pc whizz to install your own motherboard ;)

..., and my system specs as a guide to you. Spec: Abit IC7-MAX3 Motherboard Pentium 4 3.2 e (prescott) 512meg corsair TwinX 2x Hitachi Deskstar 160gig SATA (RAID 0) Radeon 9800PRO This benchmarked at 18,500 with 3dmark01, which is an impressive score for a system without overclocking. Dav... Read review

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