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...

Mcsm 17.01.2001 (16.01.2001) · Read review
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Review of Gigabyte GA-6VX7-1394 - motherboard - ATX - Pro133A

New super MB from ABIT

Advantages: All new features, possibility of use all Intel Socket 370 CPU's, built-in quality sound
Disadvantages: none

...This new motherboard from ABIT support both Intel Celeron and Pentium III FCPGA (Coppermine) processors. Based on VIA Appolo Pro 133A chipset, this ATX formfactor motherboard have 1 AGP 4x, 5 PCI and 1 ISA slots. Also equipped with Yamaha sound chip with software midi syntesizer and 2 IDE IDMA/66 ports. I bought this motherboard week ago and very pleased by its design, quality and performance. Very good for overclocking and stable in any Windows applications (both Me and 2000). My Celeron 400 MHz work at 500 Mhz (83MHZx6) without any problems also in games like Need for Speed 5 and Unreal Tournament. So, this mainboard include all new features and is the best choice for home use (especially due to possibility of CPU's upgrade up to 1GHz)....

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Review of ABIT VH6 - motherboard - ATX - Pro133A

Its been around a while but still a bargain

Advantages: Plenty of features - Good quality
Disadvantages: Drive installation a little confusing

...schewing the Intel route favoured by many motherboard manufacturers, Soyo has chosen one of VIA's chipsets for this ATX board, although for most users the difference won't be too relevant, since the functional differences are minimal. What you get is a board with three DIMM sockets (all rated at PC-133), a brace of UDMA/66 (not 100, at the time of writing) controllers and the usual serial, parallel, USB and PS/2 ports at the rear. Also present on this board is an audio controller, so you get the microphone, line in and speaker ports as well, plus a game controller. Soyo is keen on hardware monitoring and power management features, so the SY-7VCA has voltage and fan speed monitors, CPU temperature measurements, wake-on keyboard, modem, alarm, LAN and more. Soyo has retained backward compatibility with this board, by ensuring that it...

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Review of SOYO SY-7VCA - motherboard - ATX - Pro133A

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...

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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.

...plates. Some may just give you 1 IDE cable so you would ?have to? share the cable between your Hard Drive and your CD/DVD Drive unless you buy or have your own. This is something I like about this motherboard. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? JARGON BUSTER: The IDE cable is the ?flat? ribbon cable that connects a Hard Drive to the motherboard. SATA (Serial ATA) is a faster interface available on the P4C800-E Deluxe that connects a SATA Hard Drive to the motherboard. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? INFO: You can get IDE cables capable of transferring 66Mbps (Megabits Per Second), 100Mbps, and 133Mbps but this depends on what the motherboard supports. The board also supports 133Mbs as well as supporting SATA, which transfers data at 150Mbps. Each IDE can support up to 2 drives. The P4C800-E Deluxe has 3 IDE controllers (places to...

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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....

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Review of ASUS M2N68 - motherboard - ATX - nForce 630a

A Reliable and Good Performance Motherboard

Advantages: High performance, Low cost,
Disadvantages: Support Up to 4 Gb of RAM

...+3 ports) - Up to 4 GB RAM Support -Onboard LAN - High Definition Audio Overall the motherboard is satisfactory. You will only say that the RAM support should be up to 8 GB and I am also agree with you. The motherboard is micro ATX and so you can install it on slim cabinets also. It is a very affordable motherboard as it cost Rs. 2400($ 60) in India (on 8th March 2008.). If you want the video for this motherboard go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBvzBpGDypA If you want more technical details visit: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=1&model=2336&l1=3&l2=11&l3=614&l4=0 You can go for this motherboard if you want to configure a low cost and a high performance PC. Cheers! Pravin...

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Review of ASUS P5N73-AM - motherboard - micro ATX - GeForce 7050

Micro ATX board

Advantages: Good stable board
Disadvantages: Not many PCI slots

...Motherboards are critical to any computer. The selection is wide and the features each contains need to be closely looked at. I was building a new PC and I came across this motherboard. It is a micro ATX board so is alot smaller than any ATX board so therefore has the disadvantage of not having much opportunity for expansion. There are only three PCI slots which is fine if you do not require many but considering that a modem, soundcard and now wireless cards need PCI slots then this does not leave many options if you wish to install these. The board itself has many features and comes with onboard graphics and sound. The advantage of this is that money is saved on needing to buy a graphics card and sound card. The disadvantage of this is that if you do use the onboard graphics it uses your system memory and therefore can slow...

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Review of MSI KM2M Combo-L - motherboard - micro ATX - KM266

is this the mother of all motherboards?

Advantages: fast, handle the future
Disadvantages: soome time installing windows

...Well, the simple answer is yes, well priced at around £150, you definataly get your moneys worth. Looks: Well, its a thing of beauty, you definately need a case with a window. From the red heat sinks around the CPU, to the alternated colours of the RAM slots, it looks wonderful before you've even added anything. With the ROG (republic of gamers) tag lighting up, it definately shows its place within the case, and asus has also succesfully incorparated a practical use to the LED's dotted around. But we will touch on that later. Practicality: With 6 well spaced USB's,Ps/2 keyboard port, an IEEE 2394a port, 2, yes 2, gigabit LAN connections, and an included 7:1 supporting sound card. You will never be caught short again. 8 SATA ports inside, 2 speeding HDDs, and 6 normal. You have plenty of room to add the hard drives...

jamesgee 25.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of ASUS Maximus II Formula - motherboard - ATX - iP45

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...

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Review of ASUS M2NPV-VM - motherboard - micro ATX - GeForce 6150