Motherboards you want reviewed

[Tiorapatea]

Another vote for a final showdown for the AthlonXP - but you may as well wait for VIA KT880 boards to show up. nForce2 Ultra has ruled the roost but there's no harm in looking at the alternatives. I sympathise also with the idea that you should include budget boards.

I know this platform has received a lot of attention but typically boards are reviewed when they first come out and then subsequent revisions or vendors who are late on a particular chipset get ignored, e.g DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B. Meanwhile, for a lot of people, this platform still makes a lot of sense economically - you have certainly seen the votes here.

As for nForce3, I say wait for the 250 chipset (when will they finally launch that!!).

You better get those two reviews out the way before you start getting hit with Socket 939 and LGA775.

On review format, I quite like the way HardOCP actually measure throughput and CPU utilisation for things like disk controllers, ethernet adapters and on-board sound (CPU) - boring, maybe, but it helps reinforce one's belief in the overall quality of a product.

I agree with whoever asked for oscilloscope testing of PCI/AGP lock claims.

I'd also like to see you develop some kind of multi-tasking benchmark to try and highlight issues such as bottlenecks on the PCI bus (maybe you've missed that bus). I don't have a very clear idea how this would work though.

Keep up (or get back to ) the good work.

 

[Tiorapatea]

dp

 

[MrCodeDude]

Personally, I'd like to see just some raw numbers and benchmarks between the following boards:

Abit NF7-S 2.0 vs. Abit AN7 vs. ASUS A7N8X Deluxe vs. ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe vs. DFI Infinity

That would really help with the flamewars

 

[will889]

Originally posted by: Peter
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Originally posted by: RagingGuardian
I want to see a review of a KM400 based board. There's not even one review available for a chipset that has been released since about last summer. Not all of us can afford A64 processors and boards.

I concur. None of the budget chipsets (VIA KM266, KM400(A), forthcoming K8M800, SiS 740/741/650/651, forthcoming SiS 760, ATi IGP, NVidia IGP) have had anywhere near usable coverage.[/quote]



I think the reason for lack of coverage is because VIA KM boards are typically used by OEM builders like HP and eMachines and others. Not that it should be an excuse - it's just that nobody want's to see integrated VIA graphics with S3 savage. Bascally it's a KT400 chipset with IGP. Plenty of VIA KT400 reviews from way back. But still it would be nice if websites paid attention to lesser tech. Lot's of people use it.

 

[will889]

I would like to see an SIS 755 "shootout'. AsRock, ECS and Asus, and Foxconn. I have decided to try the Foxconn board due to it's 3 dimm slots instead of two. It also has mounting holes around the socket


Foxconn/SIS 755

 

[tennesota]

Another vote for 'budget' A64 solutions. I would like to see Chaintech's SK8T800 included in a shootout.

 

[tennesota]

I would also like to see a review of A64 coolng solutions.

 

[mechBgon]

Asus K8N-E Deluxe pleeze Do some network benchies if practical.

 

[Megatomic]

I'd like to see some production KT880 boards reviewed. High end models from the usual suspects please (EPoX, Abit, ASUS, DFI).

 

[Bar81]

Originally posted by: Hoot
I would like to see an SIS 755 "shootout'. AsRock, ECS and Asus, and Foxconn. I have decided to try the Foxconn board due to it's 3 dimm slots instead of two. It also has mounting holes around the socket


Foxconn/SIS 755

Have you gotten it yet? Is it stable? What kind of memory are you using with it?

 

[EvilYoda]

With the new Antec Aria, if you guys could do a "best of" mATX shootout, that'd be great. I know that that's something that would've helped me, since I'm currently stuck with a POS Chaintech 7NIF2 which I can't OC with.