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News for FebruaryLatest tech news from ABIT, Acer/Aopen, Acorp, Albatron, Amptron, Asrock, Asus, Atrend, Azza, Bcm, BioStar, Chaintech, DFI, ECS, EpoX, Excel, FIC, Gigabyte, Iwill, Jbond, JetWay, Leadtek, Luckystar, MSI, PCChips, QDI, Q-lity, Shuttle, Soltek, SOYO, SuperMicro, Tekram, Tyan, ...MSI? announces its new 655 Max motherboard -- Maximize Your Connection to the Digital World - February 13, 2003 The 655 Max also supports Serial ATA (optional) and the USB 2.0 standard. Designed to replace the hardware of current parallel ATA interface, the Serial ATA exists to maintain the command protocol. At 150 MB per second, Serial ATA improves the hard drive performance and keeps the pace of increasing data intensive environments such as audio/video, consumer electronics and entry-level servers. Another advantage of the Serial ATA is the use of its thin cables for easy routing and improved cooling inside the PC chassis. USB 2.0 devices are also rising in popularity nowadays. With a much higher bandwidth, USB 2.0's can reach data rates of up to 480Mbps; nearly 40 times faster than that of present USB 1.1. And as a worry-free bonus, system USB 2.0 will serve to be fully compatible to operate with today's present USB devices. The 655 Max conforms to the ATX form factor and has a total of four DIMM slots, supporting up to 4GB DDR333/SDRAM. Expansion slots are also available for 6 PCI and 1 AGP 8X Port. Looking for surround sound support for home entertainment? With the optional 5.1Channel audio, users can enjoy playing games or watching DVD movies in the comfort of their own home. The 655 Max is designed to MAXIMIZE your connection to the digital world. Source from: www.msi.com.tw ABIT's KD7 Series Motherboards: AMD Athlon?XP 3000+ Processor Recommended February 12, 2003 AMD, maker of award-winning Athlon XP, Athlon and Duron processors, has announced that the ABIT KD7 series motherboards are now recipients of AMD validation for all AMD processors up to 3000+. According to AMD, Recommended AMD Motherboards are "a service to AMD customers and resellers to ensure a positive user experience with the AMD Athlon?XP processor. Due to the complex nature of the issues affecting reliable processor operation on a motherboard, AMD selects the most popular new motherboards to evaluate using an internally developed suite of BIOS, electrical, and software tests. This test suite has been developed to ensure compliance with motherboard design guidelines for the AMD Athlon?XP processor. To ensure reliable operation, the AMD Athlon?XP processor should be used in conjunction with one of these recommended motherboards." ABIT's award-winning KD7 series is based on the VIA KT400 chipset and is available with optional RAID (KD7-R), gigabit LAN (KD7-G) and serial ATA (KD7-S/G). Also offered using the KT400 chipset, is the full-featured AT7-MAX2 offering 10 USB ports, 3 Firewire and S/PDIF out. Also offered for the AMD CPU, using the nForce2 chipset is the NF7 Series, including the NF7-S, the NF7 and the NF7-M with onboard graphics. Source from: www.abit.com.tw AD77 Infinity wins "Recommends" award from "PC World" in Australia February 14, 2003 AD77 Infinity is infinitely powered with VIA KT400 chipsets on AMD platform. In addition to the very rich features, the performance and stability always impresses the editors. The Editor described his pleasant experience so, ¡°Producing high scores in all our tests, the board was also very stable and experienced no problems during benchmarking.¡± Exciting overclocking adventure on AD77 Infinity is also always recommended by editors. Almost every editor can overdrive the CPU to hit 190 MHz FSB with no stability problems. Source from: www.DFI.com SOYO P4I 845PE - Possibly the best value Pentium 4 platform available! February 3, 2003 "While the Granite Bay¡¯s Dual-Channel DDR266 architecture does offer unbeatable performance, it also comes at a high price... The Granite Bay is an entry-level workstation chipset and although it has found a place in the desktop market, there are still quite a few board makers steering clear of this solution. One of these board makers is SOYO; they probably don¡¯t see the need to offer a board featuring such an expensive chipset that will only offer small performance margins over their current i845PE boards." "Just like other i845PE motherboards the SY-P4I 845PE was extremely stable completing every benchtest program without a hitch. Even with the aggressive memory settings of the Corsair XMS3500 memory module, the board performed perfectly. The 10/100 LAN was easy to use and worked well... The board handled high FSB frequencies very well and successfully survived 3Dmark2001 SE for a constant 24 hours. The Serial ATA interface also worked well with our Barracuda V SATA hard drive." Source from: www.soyousa.com Another step towards a totally connected mobile world February 18, 2003 The Wifi Caravan is a mobile wireless network, comprised of vehicles within range of each other using 802.11 networking equipment. This road trip is heading across part of Northern America. They plan on being able to broadcast MP3s, share files, chat, play games, upload and download - and much more. There's a lot of equipment being used to achieve this. The Mobile 4-way SMP Linux cluster has been built in a briefcase, with four VIA EPIA M-seriesmainboards inside. Read more. Source from: www.viaarena.com AOpen Wheels Out Motherboard With SIS648/963 Chipset Platform Supports Hyper-Threading February 21, 2003 If you're more of the functionalism-type consumer who craves abundant-features and blistering platform performance, the AX45H-8X series is more your cup of tea. We are proud to present you the new chipsets of SIS648/963, first AGP8X chipset for Intel Pentium 4 series processors with FSB 533MHz and the latest hotshot ¨C Hyper-Threading. Among all useful features of AX45H 8X series, the most outstanding one should be the Hyper-Threading, which we have heard so much about it. Simply puts, it is an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. In short, a fantastic feature that gives you the performance of one CPU similar that of two! Source from: www.aopen.com Related Items: | Motherboards | |
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