The End User Pays: 13 Boards With Intel 845GE/PE : Tough Battle For Customers: With Features And Color

06:00 - Monday 9 December 2002 by Frank Völkel
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: the, end, user, pays

Table of content:
1 – Tough Battle For Customers: Wi...
  1. 1 – Tough Battle For Customers: With Features And Color
  2. 2 – Tough Battle For Customers: With Features And Color, Continued
  3. 3 – Price Check: Chipsets For Pentium 4
  4. 4 – From 3.06 GHz: New Cooler Design For The P4
  5. 5 – The Boards
  6. 6 – Asus P4PE/ GE: Now Fully Equipped At The Old Price, Continued
  7. 7 – Asus P4PE/ GE: Now Fully Equipped At The Old Price, Continued
  8. 8 – Aopen AX4PE/ GE Max: Silent Solution And Overclocking
  9. 9 – Aopen AX4PE/ GE Max: Silent Solution And Overclocking, Continued
  10. 10 – Aopen AX4PE/ GE Max: Silent Solution And Overclocking, Continued
  11. 11 – Biostar P4TGE: A Colorful Package With FSB Tricks.
  12. 12 – Biostar P4TGE: A Colorful Package With FSB Tricks, Continued
  13. 13 – DFI NB78-HL: Meager And Low-priced
  14. 14 – Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra/ 8GE667 Pro: Mega-Equipment
  15. 15 – Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra/ 8GE667 Pro: Mega-Equipment, Continued
  16. 16 – Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra/ 8GE667 Pro: Mega-Equipment, Continued
  17. 17 – Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds: The Iwill P4HT-S
  18. 18 – Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds: The Iwill P4HT-S, Continued
  19. 19 – Storming The Market: Intel D845PEBT2
  20. 20 – Storming The Market: Intel D845PEBT2, Continued
  21. 21 – Fujitsu-Siemens D1527/ D1547: Made In Germany
  22. 22 – Fujitsu-Siemens D1527/ D1547: Made In Germany, Continued
  23. 23 – Fujitsu-Siemens D1527/ D1547: Made In Germany, Continued
  24. 24 – A Naked Candidate: QDI Platinix 2E/ 333
  25. 25 – Comparison Of SDRAM, DDR SDRAM And RDRAM Bandwidths
  26. 26 – Benchmarks Under Windows XP SP1
  27. 27 – DirectX 8 Games: 3D Mark 2001 SE
  28. 28 – MP3 Audio Encoding: Lame MP3
  29. 29 – SiSoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU And Multimedia
  30. 30 – Multimedia Performance: PC Mark 2002
  31. 31 – 3D-Rendering Performance: SPEC Viewperf 7
  32. 32 – Archiving: WinACE 2.2
  33. 33 – Overview: Features Of All Boards Tested
  34. 34 – Overview: Features For All Motherboards, Continued
  35. 35 – Overview: Features For All Motherboards, Continued
  36. 36 – Conclusion - Asus Offers The Best Mix

Tough Battle For Customers: With Features And Color

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Deciding what to buy is not always easy for the go-getting user: a new board is on the cards and the platform's already been selected - a Pentium 4 with DDR memory. But these details are far too sketchy to ensure a failsafe choice. A handful of freaks have already decided for the exotic platform (Intel 850E) with Rambus memory in the last few weeks - and it wasn't such a bad choice. After all, the memory doesn't cost much more than the mass-produced DDR-SRAM, and the extra outlay for an 850 board is not going to break the bank. Alternatively, the fully developed Intel 845 chipset comes in a number of versions that work together with DDR266 and, in a recent development, even with fast DDR333 memory. And what's more, that's official. That's because, unofficially, the majority of boards in our last test (DDR333 for P4: 16 Boards with Intel 845G - Part II ) were already running on DDR333 including CL2 mode. There's no question that, particularly in conjunction with the new chipsets, the P4 platform has reached a stage of development of which its chipset rivals can only dream. Intel has returned to the big mass market, so to speak - for the first time since its legendary 440BX at the close of the 90s. In this benchmark test we'll be putting boards with 845GE and 845PE chipsets under the microscope.


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