Price Guides October 2004: CPU and Motherboards
by Adam Rader on October 3, 2004 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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AMD VIA Motherboards
While NVIDIA does take most of the thunder away when it comes to A64 chipsets, Via still has its share of quality high-performance motherboards available. One such board is the Asus K8V SE Deluxe, which is based on Via's own K8T800 chipset. This board is of the Socket 754 flavor and comes fully loaded with GB LAN, firewire, and PATA/SATA RAID capable of supporting a total of 10 drives, not counting the floppy.The board is also capable of accepting an Asus WiFi card courtesy of the included proprietary WiFi slot near the bottom of the board. Another nice feature is the onboard Virtual Cable Tester (VCT). This is basically circuitry built into the onboard Marvell GB LAN chip that allows the NIC to detect and diagnose network problems at the physical layer. In short, it's a free cable tester that will never have dead batteries, which might come in handy if you go to a lot of LAN parties.
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scott967 - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
Elsewhere have seen reports of good reduction in power draw at 1.4V and 2.2 GHz.Bugler - Sunday, October 3, 2004 - link
Unless I have already missed it, I sure would like to see a review and recommendation, good and bad comparing the 90ns 939 CPUs to the prior versions.Thanks
Pete84 - Sunday, October 3, 2004 - link
Good question #1. I have had a KT880 Dragon2 for several months now, and haven't had a single lockup or freeze. It doesn't have anything more than a /6 divider for overclocking, but I was still ablel to get a decent 15mhz more for my FSB. Rock solid, VIA has made a loyal fan here!On a nit picking note, the NF7-S Rev.2 that is such a good overclocker does NOT have Gb lan. That is only for the new version of the NF7 that uses the Gb MCP with nForce3 tech. Overclocking has been terrible on this version, stay away!
thebluesgnr - Sunday, October 3, 2004 - link
"This week, the AMD Athlon XP 2600+ is available for less than some lower models and is based on the same Barton core, which made the Athlon XP 2500+ so popular among overclockers and gamers alike. Paired with an nForce2 chipset motherboard,"I wonder why AnandTech completely ignores the KT880 chipset.