Some Motherboard Reviews!

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MSI P4 SiS645 DDR board - MSI 645Ultra Review @ OCWorkbench: MSI mainboards never fails in delivering an impressive package with lots of goodies within. It has the best features like D-bracket, 1Mhz stepping for your overclocking needs. We were able to increase the FSB to 112Mhz CAS2 Ultra, voltage:1.85v memory running at 298Mhz scoring 1239/1248 in SiSoft Sandra memory benchmarks. Voltage tweaking is also available if you find that the current performance is not enough for you. Documentation is also pretty well written and BIOS screen shots and explanations of the various BIOS settings are direct to the point. The BIOS needs a bit more tuning to make it better at DDR333. Overall, a well packaged P4 DDR solution. Asus A7N266 (nForce) Review @ HardwareMania: As a result A7N266 we tested was just an engineering sample. Asus is still working on it and they warned us about the performance when we took the sample. Neither the card, nor the drivers are ready yet. But it is a fact that even as a sample, it is better than AMD761 with the same CPU and Ram. If you consider that the street price of the nForces with integrated audio and GPU will be about 200$, it may be a good solution for the ones looking for a complete system. You will have GeForce MX400, 6 channel audio, 100MBit Ethernet and many other features at the same time for only 200$. Asus A7V266-E Review @ LostCircuits: After more or less skipping the VIA KT266 chipset, ASUS releases its view of what a KT266A chipset-based mainboard is supposed to look like. Loaded with features like support for the iPanel, SmartCard reader and onboard CMedia 6-channel sound including SPDIF support, the A7V266-E is bound for success. Using new power-supply technology supplied by ON-Semiconductor with the MOSFET drivers integrated in the core controller, ASUS does away with 2 phases, yet manages to achieve a superlative in stability, particularly under overclocked conditions.