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VIA Hardware has put up a review of the IWILL P4R-533N P4 motherboard, based on the i850e chipset.



Not long ago, Intel released the Pentium 4 Northwood CPU, which offered 512K of onboard cache and was built on a .13 micron process; allowing Intel to scale the P4 well past 2 GHz without any problems. Intel has also chosen to increase the front-side bus of the Pentium 4, with new versions of i845 and i850 supporting a 533 MHz FSB (133 Mhz quad-pumped). Today we'll be looking at the i850e, which offers support for the new 533 MHz FSB. The i850e officially only supports PC800 RDRAM, but there's no reason why the board can't be run at the higher memory clock.
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