It sure is nice to see the overwhelming transition to passive chipset cooling. My patients for noisy, stop-working-after-2-months chipset fans ran out along time ago:) It's going to be interesting to see how well the heat pipe solutions work compared to the old fans.
I'd love to see the $60 ASRock 775Dual-VSTA benched with DDR and DDR2 before I drop $200+ on a "Conroe" overclocking board and another $160 - $260 on DDR2.
Seeing so many small boards (micro ATX and so), for when some reviews of small mainboards (regarding compatibility, heat from chipset, performance, underclocking and overclocking)?
Looks like you will help me decide my birthday present :D
Thanks
And by the way, could you please please please test onboard video graphic performance (in one or two cases only) with a single DIMM in dual channel boards? And maybe with a Sempron AM2 at 35W (256K cache would be great)?
On the second MSI page, the last motherboard has this comment:
The K9VGM-V leads MSI's entry level products for AMD AM2 by combining the VIA K8M890 and VT8237R+ chipsets. Expect to see this board sell for under US $50 later this month.
The motherboard in question is actually the PT890-Neo F for the Intel platform.
MSI - 'Angelic Quality, Heavenly Performance'. Well I don't know about anyone else, but I've been looking for a graphics card for quite some time that flies better with the Big Guy.
What exactly is angelic about a computer product?!
Yeah, I hope the AGP/PCIe is implemented in the same manner as the ULI chipsed does. Though, I'm less interested in AGP, and WAY more interested in DDR. Though...what would the DDR2 800 or 667 Equivalence be to DDR? Would i have to get DDR800 or DDR667, and does something like that even exist?
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Zaitsev - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
It sure is nice to see the overwhelming transition to passive chipset cooling. My patients for noisy, stop-working-after-2-months chipset fans ran out along time ago:) It's going to be interesting to see how well the heat pipe solutions work compared to the old fans.aldamon - Tuesday, June 27, 2006 - link
I'd love to see the $60 ASRock 775Dual-VSTA benched with DDR and DDR2 before I drop $200+ on a "Conroe" overclocking board and another $160 - $260 on DDR2.Thanks in advance AT!
larciel - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
It brings back memories from 1996 !!! best buy was filled with their ugly case and IBM's sliding door cases! lolBloodshedder - Friday, June 16, 2006 - link
I had figured they were long dead. If anything, maybe during that ten years they got their act together.Calin - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Seeing so many small boards (micro ATX and so), for when some reviews of small mainboards (regarding compatibility, heat from chipset, performance, underclocking and overclocking)?Thanks
Strunf - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Yup that would be nice, it has been a long time since I've seen a that kind of boards on the test lane.Gary Key - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
We have several AMD/Intel m-ATX boards coming up for review in July along with the Conroe m-ATX boards in August.
Calin - Friday, June 16, 2006 - link
Looks like you will help me decide my birthday present :DThanks
And by the way, could you please please please test onboard video graphic performance (in one or two cases only) with a single DIMM in dual channel boards? And maybe with a Sempron AM2 at 35W (256K cache would be great)?
(Yes, I know I am greedy).
Lots and lots of thanks
Myrandex - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
On the second MSI page, the last motherboard has this comment:The K9VGM-V leads MSI's entry level products for AMD AM2 by combining the VIA K8M890 and VT8237R+ chipsets. Expect to see this board sell for under US $50 later this month.
The motherboard in question is actually the PT890-Neo F for the Intel platform.
Gary Key - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Sorry about that, the file name was cross-linked in the database. It is corrected now.DigitalFreak - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
ROFLMAO!!!!Calin - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
I have an old ECS mainboard, and it worked great (except for some restarts when gaming over 12 hours :D )lewisc - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
MSI - 'Angelic Quality, Heavenly Performance'. Well I don't know about anyone else, but I've been looking for a graphics card for quite some time that flies better with the Big Guy.What exactly is angelic about a computer product?!
lewisc - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Sorry, that should be angelic quality, heavenly experience.swtethan - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Good thing from ASrock for us people suck in agp world wanting a conroe.Rock Hydra - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
Yeah, I hope the AGP/PCIe is implemented in the same manner as the ULI chipsed does. Though, I'm less interested in AGP, and WAY more interested in DDR. Though...what would the DDR2 800 or 667 Equivalence be to DDR? Would i have to get DDR800 or DDR667, and does something like that even exist?Strunf - Thursday, June 15, 2006 - link
The FSB is either 800 or 1066, soo the DDR and DDR2 have to be 400 or 533...its actually written on the boards DDR400 or DDR2 667.Performance wise I would say DDR400 is on pair with DDR2 533.