December 29, 1999
AMD's Super Bypass - AMD Improves their 750 Chipset
AMD quietly enables a new feature in their recent Northbridge. This new enhancement reduces some of their memory bottlenecks within their 750 chipset.
December 16, 1999
Micron's Upcoming Samurai DDR Chipset - First Looks
This upcoming DDR SDRAM chipset will offer high memory bandwidth with a much more reasonable memory cost versus RDRAM platforms.
December 15, 1999
The RDRAM Avenger - Intel's i840 Chipset
So you want to have Coppermine and you decided to spend big bucks on RDRAM. Then don't make the mistake and buy i820-platforms! i840 is what Coppermine plus RDRAM needs!
December 8, 1999
BCM QS750 Athlon Motherboard Review
BCM makes a bold entry into the Athlon Motherboard Realm with their QS750!
December 6, 1999
COMDEX/Fall '99 - Motherboard Manufacturers Report Part 2
Come get the latest news on AOpen, Asus, EPoX and Gigabyte.
December 3, 1999
Intel's New CC820 Motherboard Review
Intel's CC820 Motherboard, one of the first i820 based platform that supports PC100 SDRAM!
November 22, 1999
COMDEX/Fall '99 - Motherboard Manufacturers
News from VIA, ABIT, Delta, DFI, Iwill, Lucky Star, MSI and TMC.
November 22, 1999
Athlon Motherboard Review
ASUS and BIOSTAR jump on the Athlon train with new Motherboards!
October 5, 1999
Intel i820 Chipset Review
Intel stumbles just before releasing its long awaited i820 Chipset. Does the i820's performance compare to the 440BX and VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset?
September 17, 1999
440BX Motherboard Review
Five of the newest BX motherboards are put to the test. Tom's Hardware Guide covers their performance, unique features, and of course the overclockability.
August 18, 1999
Early Athlon Motherboard Review
Five of the newest BX motherboards are put to the test. THG covers their performance, unique features, and of course the overclockability.
June 22, 1999
Preview of Intel's Upcoming 'Camino'-Chipset
There's still 2 1/2 months to go until Intel will launch the new i820-chipset, also known as 'Camino'. However, the early days in the life of Camino are long over
June 1, 1999
Preview of VIA's upcoming Apollo Pro+ 133 Chipset
It's time for a new Slot1-platform. Intel's BX-chipset is out for about a year now, and whilst nobody is really complaining about its performance, the technology has to step ahead to create new business in the chipset and motherboard area
May 11, 1999
Whitney, Intel 810 Chipset - Part II
Since we have already provided all the technical details behind the new i810 chipset architecture, let's look at the performance results this new i810 chipset has to offer.
April 30, 1999
Whitney, Intel’s 810 Chipset - Part I
Intel flexes their muscles and shows their technological dominance in the low-cost chipset arena. Up to date there have been a several attempts to design a fully integrated chipset
November 9, 1998
440BX Motherboard Review - Fall 1998
High end users don't have much of a choice: Regarding performance there is no alternative for Intel's BX chipset.
November 5, 1998
Slot 1 Chipset Comparison
Some people tried to interpret the meaning of the name "Slot-1" and came to the conclusion that it stands for Intel who wants to control this market all on one's own
October 17, 1998
Socket 7 Board Review July 1998
Half a year has passed since our last Socket7 motherboard review and a lot has changed in the last months once again
September 23, 1998
Rambus on Alternate Platforms
Due to its weakness in latency, the specific performance balance of Rambus DRAM does not seem to favor current generation uniprocessor desktop PC platforms running traditional applications
August 14, 1998
Performance Impact of Rambus
Rambus is a very hot topic. Intel has been promoting Rambus as the new memory standard since late 1996. Now, eighteen months later a few DRAM manufacturers have prototype silicon in hand
July 29, 1998
Performance Impact of Low Latency DRAM
Predicting the system performance impact of a new type of DRAM is a tricky business.
July 10, 1998
DRAM Performance: Latency vs. Bandwidth
The industry is in the midst of a raging debate over DRAM performance. Today, chip makers are fighting it out, but very soon the battle zone will expand to include system manufacturers, all the way down to individual users
May 26, 1998
Review of Slot 1 Motherboards with Intel 440BX Chipset
Intel won the run and is the first to ship a chipset that is running at 100 MHz system or front side bus clock.
April 16, 1998
100 MHz Front Side Bus - What's the Beef ?
Intel launches a new chipset called 440BX. It is the first official product in the PC business that offers a system bus of 100 MHz. Intel calls it 'front side bus'
April 15, 1998
Intels New Blessings for the PC and More ...
Intel launches a new chipset called 440BX. It is the first official product in the PC business that offers a system bus of 100 MHz. Intel calls it 'front side bus'
February 12, 1998
Performance Preview - of Systems with Intel 440BX Chipset
What will 100 MHz front bus bring Pentium II Systems?
January 20, 1998
Review of Socket 7 AGP Boards
Five Socket 7 AGP boards, new chipsets, new CPU
1997
Review of Socket 8 Motherboards
The Pentium Pro is around now for several years and still it never made it to a best seller as its siblings Pentium, Pentium w/MMX and Pentium II
1997
Review of Socket 7 PCI Motherboards
The Pentium Pro is around now for several years and still it never made it to a best seller as its siblings Pentium, Pentium w/MMX and Pentium II
1997
FIC PA-2012 Revision 1.2 - The First Socket 7 AGP Motherboard
Comdex Fall 1997 was the first Comdex I've ever attended and so I had to learn the hard way what it means to waste hours getting from one place to another
1997
Review of Pentium II Boards with Intel's 440LX Chipset
Intel's 440LX chipset is now available for almost 2 weeks and one mainboard manufacturer after the other is presenting their 440LX board to the market
1997
New Socket 7 Motherboards - July 1997
Quite a lot of new boards found their way to my lab since my last Socket 7 review and quite a few of them are using chipsets which are not from market leader Intel
1997
100 MHz System Bus for Socket 7 - What can we expect?
First Results
1997
The 75/83 MHz Bus Speed Project
The first time that we all heard of 75 MHz bus speed was, when the Cyrix 6x86 P200+ was launched
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AMD's Athlon processor is the first to reach the magic 1 GHz barrier! Kryotech's super cooling enables you to get the worlds fastest PC that leaves any Intel-based product in the dust.
Intel has been hurting badly, once AMD pushed them from the CPU performance throne. Now Intel enters the battle with a new product, famous for its code name Coppermine. Will it be able to beat Athlon?