GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard.

Advantages: Dual bios and great stability
Disadvantages: Unnanounced conflicts and required settings

...GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard. Introduction; This Dual Bios motherboard designed to accept AMD/Duron/Athlon/XP processors,incorperates onboard sound,+4 USB,with DDR memorey and in innovative dual bios system. Having myself tried and tested this motherboard for 6 months in two machines,I am totally convinced of is usefulness and it's place in the market.Providing a very stable board and up to date technology,it has the added benefit of a system that protects your bios against viruses,power fluctuations,incorrect bios upgrades and bios chip failure. Its incorperated resources and features are good,and ample for a very respectable system.However there are a few factors to be considered when choosing a motherboard,and most of the conflicts and incompatibilty problems I have encountered are not documented...

babajane32 28.02.2003 · Read review
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Review of Gigabyte Socket A GA-7DXR - motherboard - ATX - AMD-761

Good all round socket 939 motherboard

Advantages: Excellent all rounder with too many features to list
Disadvantages: Not great for overclocking

...I have recently become a big fan of Asus products. The first contact i had with them was when i purchased an A8v deluxe motherboard for my pc. At the time, it was the best motherboard available on the market, but this was mainly due to the small number of manufacturers catering for this format. Last month my younger brother pleaded with me to build him a computer which he can use for games, music, internet and all manner of things pc related. As Microsoft are slowly integrating 64 bit capability into almost all of their upcoming software, and 32 bit is being slowly phased out, I decided on starting with a 64 bit system. There are currently 3 formats of 64 bit system available, namely socket 754, socket 940 and socket 939. These 3 formats differ in their chip types and also in their compatability with other components used in the pc...

ciao_saqibf 01.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of ASUS A8N-SLI - motherboard - ATX - nForce4 SLI

Motherboard for Hardcore Gamers

Advantages: Fast, Cool, Supports Quad core processors
Disadvantages: None

...Hi all my friends in this review i will be talking about one of the most advanced mainboard present... yes my friends im talking about a very powerful motherboard bu ASUS and the model number is P5Q PRO... Let me explain to you the features of this motherboard... first of all this motherboard is ATX which means that it requires type ATX power supply unit installed in the case.. and secondly this motherboard supports Socket LGA775 type processors which are either dual or quad core mostly... these processors are really fast and upto 2 to 4X faster than ordinary p4 processors... The motherboard also supports upto 4 GB of DDR 2 ram and also has 2 PCI Express ports for upgrades such as graphic cards and stuff.. and a lot more...the motherboard has upto 8 SATA input connectors... inbuilt fire wire and heaps of great features... And just by...

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Review of ASUS P5Q PRO - motherboard - ATX - iP45

A motherboard with firewire

Advantages: Ideal for those with digital cameras of video editing
Disadvantages: aimed more towards specialists

...his Gigabyte board is a Flip Chip Pin Grid Array board, using the VIA 594x Apollo Pro Family AGPset chipset, in an ATX format with FireWire support (hence the '1394') in the product name. This latter feature, in particular, is unusual. Where many manufacturers might be tempted to add sound, modem, NIC or even SCSI support, Gigabyte is the first we've seen to add FireWire to this form factor, courtesy of a TI chipset. Also known as IEEE1394 (in deference to Apple) and i.LINK by Sony, this FireWire interface could be described as 'USB, but faster'. Watch for future features on this site where we explain all about FireWire. Back to the board. This unit has five PCI slots, one of which is shared with an ISA slot, along with the obligatory AGP port and an AMR riser slot. Three DIMMs are onboard, each capable of handling PC-133 memory...

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Review of Gigabyte Socket 370 GA-6VX7-1394 - motherboard - ATX - Pro133A

one of the best boards for socket 478

Advantages: features SATA, dual channel memory
Disadvantages: lacks modern features such as ddr2 and pci express

...If your like i was before stuck with a pretty decent socket 478 CPU such as a Pentium 4 2.8 , then this is one of the best motherboards i would recommend to get. There are lots of great advantages with this motherboard such as the size, its a Micro ATX motherboard meaning that you can have a smaller case such as a media centre case. It has 2 DDR 400 (backwards compatible with DDR 333,266 and 200) slots which can be used in Dual channel Mode if both Ram modules are the same. The northbridge chipset on this board is an Intel 865g which supports a front side bus up to 800 mhz , but you can also use 400 and 533 mhz bus CPU's with this board. It has two SATA slots which i would say is the most future friendly part on the motherboard meaning it wont be a problem when upgrading your hard drive or some optical drives which are now...

smash_3000 26.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of ASRock P4I65G - motherboard - micro ATX - i865G

mATX - Small, Sound, Old

Advantages: ATX-compatible, Power-efficient, Inexpensive, Supports ATA and SATA
Disadvantages: Obsolete DDR Technology, Unsuitable for Gamers

...ASRock P4i65G is a compact motherboard for that tiny PC case. Because it was manufactured for microtower standard computer boxes, it lacks the strengths that the following customers would desire: workstation administrators, hardcore gamers, media professionals. In other words, this motherboard is currently suitable only for those with medium requirements (if you wish to buy it for a new computer) and highly recommended for Socket 478 processor owners. Introducing mATX Power Capacity Most mATX computers support power supplies of no more than 350W, and the case is sometimes too small for you to stuff two hard disks. This motherboard can easily house a P4 3.4 GHz HT (one of the most powerful and watt-guzzling monocore CPUs) that can compete with modern dual core processors, multiple DVD-ROMs and hard disk...

Lord_Kelvin 15.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of ASRock P4I65G - motherboard - micro ATX - i865G

A High Performance Motherboard

Advantages: Features rich, FSB 800MHz, USB2.0, Firewire, Dual Channel DDR, Supports upto 3.2Ghz, Prescott Ready, RAID, 8x AGP, On-board 1GB LAN, On-board Sound, Supports 4GB DDR RAM IT TALKS!
Disadvantages: Expensive, Asus website is SLOW.

...that comes to mind. It?s quite expensive at over £100. I would prefer to have paid less for this motherboard. Even though it costs so much, it still doesn?t support the fastest Pentium processors. It supports the 3.4Ghz AFTER a BIOS update but 3.6Ghz use a differenttype of CPU altogether. Those use the newer Socket T / PGA775 cpu. Either way, it's the top board in the Asus socket 478 range. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? JARGON BUSTER: Socket 478 describes the CPU socket type on the motherboard. You will need a CPU with a Socket 478 interface for it to fit into the motherboard. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? This board has a port for an Asus Wi-Fi (Wireless) card. You do not need to use this but I think they were just trying to flog their own wireless card, as you can get PCI Wi-Fi cards. I think that was rather pointless unless the board came...

Deru 05.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe - motherboard - ATX - i875P

ASUS M2N68 - motherboard - ATX - nForce 630a

Advantages: Very good cost/benefit ratio, like the overclocking, like the bios
Disadvantages: very bad pin and port placement

...the individual connectors outside of the cabinet and then connect to the board as one plug. Fortunately it has the same format as the M2N68, but unfortunately I cannot use it because it raises the connectors too high, taking space from one of the only available HD bays. Good board, but very bad planning. Even on my large full-atx cabinet, connecting everything was an unpleasant challenge. I do not recommend this board for anyone with a slim or reduced-size cabinet, or anyone who works with 4 hd's. And contrary to CIOS's description of 5 SATA ports, it has 4....

JM_Brazil 05.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of ASUS M2N68 - motherboard - ATX - nForce 630a

ASUS AMD Athlon Motherboard

Advantages: HDTV output, supports AMDs Cool 'n' Quiet
Disadvantages: Only one lan

...The ASUS M2NPV-VM Motherboard for AMD single-core Athlon 64/ Sempron and Dual-core Athlon 64 X2/ Athlon FX processors using socket AM2 is very user friendly, I went with AMDs 64 x2 3800+ processor in the beginning then moved up to 4200+ 2Gb Ram without any hassle, very easy to setup and fits easily in a standard ATX case. A possible downside to the board is that it has a limited number of slots due to being a micro ATX sized board. That's not a big deal for me as the only two cards I'll be buying in the future is Graphics and a extra Lan card. Board Layout `````````````````` >In the upper right hand corner of the motherboard are the ATX 24 pin power connector, Floppy disk connector, Game/Midi port connector and four DDR2 slots. These DDR2 slots support a maximum memory capacity of 8GB and the frequencies supported is DDR2-800MHz/667...

JGK555 31.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of ASUS M2NPV-VM - motherboard - micro ATX - GeForce 6150

Overclockable motherboard (Asrock K7S41)

Advantages: Safe overclocking ability, onboard graphics (64mb) Onboard LAN
Disadvantages: Only two Ram slots, and two PCI slots

...'s a very small motherboard (9.6inch X 7.8inch, 24.4cm X 19.8cm) which is ideal for smaller computer cases. The motherboard includes several of inputs and outputs on its back panel stated below. - Keyboard PS2 x1 - Mouse PS2 x1 - USB2 x 4 ports (able to have additional USB ports Via header) - Serial 1COM port bracket - Parallel 1 - Game/MIDI 1 - LAN 1 x RJ45 - Audio I/O Line In (light blue) / Line Out (lime) / Mic (pink) - VGA (64mb onboard graphics) By using the header for the USB2 on the motherboard I was able to connect the USB ports on my computer case to the motherboard giving me an extra two USB ports, totally six USB ports (which is more than enough for anybody) CPU - This motherboard supports socket 462 processors, AMD Sempron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Duron with FSB speeds of 400/333/266/200 Mhz Memory (Ram) - Max 2GB DDR...

cokemusic2009 05.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of ASRock K7S41 - motherboard - micro ATX - SiS741GX