Intel Server System SR1550ALSASR - no CPU

Advantages: A nice board with fine VGA and sound on-board
Disadvantages: No paper manual

...Intel Rocks again......... I bought this motherboard 3 months ago. Its awsome motherboard. First of all it has 6 channel sound speaker output system. Then Intel X3100 graphic media accelaretor. Which gives great gamin quality. Lots of usb ports. Supports core 2 quad, core 2 duo. I can use 8GB ram but i am using 4 GB now. It works too fast. This motherboard is better than MSI, Gigabyte, Asus. I work with server this motherboard gives me gigabyte lan connection gerat. Lots of sata ports. specification: CPU Socket Type - LGA775 CPU Type - Quad-core / Core 2 Duo FSB - 1333/1066MHz Number of Memory Slots - 4×240pin Chipsets - North Bridge - Intel G33 South Bridge - Intel ICH9DH Onboard Video Chipset - Intel GMA 3100 Audio Chipset - Realtek ALC888 Onboard USB 6 x USB 2.0 Expansion Slots - PCI Express x16 - 1 PCI Express x1... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: 1.7Ghz, soon to bring SDRAM & DDR-SDRAM support to the P4
Disadvantages: Still very slugish, and really does not show any performance difference over the P3 series

...with joy. If you ask me once again Intel have released this processor way to soon, and have failed again. They seem to be unable to have the patients to wait till they have a stable product and then release it. If they would just hold back untill more R&D was done. They could be releasing some decent CPU's. Unfortunatly they seem to set to throw junk out, just so they can beat AMD to the market. but AMD take there time and release stable and solid CPU's. Good things about the P4 though is, they have made a dramatic price cut on the cpu. But also the main one would be the chipsets. Planned for the second half of this year (2001). The new Brookdale chipset shall come into play, which will allow for SDRAM & DDR-SDRAM support. As it stands at the moment, the P4 will not come within 10 feet of my servers or systems. P3 still being... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average off topic

Advantages: Fast, Great FPU, Great Support, Great Stability on a good motherboard
Disadvantages: Not the industry standard.... yet. Gets very hot.

...A few days ago, I ran Sandra Professional 2000 on my system, I was surprised to see in its CPU benchmark that my CPU results almost doubled a Pentium III of about the same speed ( give or take 7 Mhz ). Not only this, but its FPU (Floating Point) is actually FASTER than that of the equivalent Intel Pentium III system. Considering this was Intels previous reason to dominate the CPU market, I think Intel are going to have a hard time continuing to be the "default" processor. The onyl falling point with AMD processors however is that businesses with little computer knowledge behind them are going to stick with Intel because it is the "industry standard". This I think will keep Intel in the limelight for a while yet. As far as I am concerned, the future is AMD (and I'm happy about this), no matter what intel try to do.... Read review

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