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• Premium Controllers Under Scrutiny: Ultra160 RAID Adapters from Adaptec and LSI*
  Wednesday 15 January 2003 – 06:00
  Everyone is familiar with RAID. But the small controller chips installed on every third motherboard do not even come close to matching the functional range offered by professional SCSI RAID controllers. Tom's Hardware Guide has taken a closer look at two Ultra160 models and has put them to the test. How powerful are premium controllers, really?
• Three Premium nForce4 Motherboards from Gigabyte, Jetway, and MSI*
  Wednesday 21 September 2005 – 07:00
  Which chipset: Intel or NVIDIA? We start our big comparison test of the best premium motherboards on the market with three nForce4-based Pentium motherboards.
• Budget And Premium Motherboards At The Crossroads*
  Monday 15 August 2005 – 07:00
  Sometimes a single manufacturer offers a wide selection of motherboards, all able to host your desired processor. This leaves the user with an essential question: are premium motherboards worth the extra money? We compared MSI's budget motherboard with its highest-end model to find out.
• Abit's Fatal1ty: Motherboards Go Premium*
  Wednesday 8 December 2004 – 06:00
  Many high-end PC enthusiasts and gamers have high expectations that the Abit Fatal1ty series will set new milestones for power and overclockability. We took a look at the first board available, the Fatal1ty AA8XE, based on the 925XE chipset.
• Market Survey, Part 2: Six Premium Pentium 4 LGA775 Boards*
  Monday 7 March 2005 – 06:00
  In this second part of our Socket 775 comparison test, we take a close look at some premium boards made by Asus, Intel, Gigabyte and MSI. Unfortunately, not all that glitters here is gold.
• Asus A8N-SLI Premium Allows SLI to be Enabled in Software*
  Wednesday 23 March 2005 – 06:00
  The Premium version of Asus' A8N-SLI motherboard allows you to turn on or off SLI in software, rather than requiring you to open your system case. Will this new feature help alleviate one of the issues that some people have with SLI?