Reviews 52637 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Techspot has posted a shootout between the follow motherboards: Epox 8K3A+ vs. FIC AN17

Going into the BIOS options, we could clearly notice that Epox has given its customers more control; even with unusual processor voltages of up to 2,2v, this mainboard has been made to reach limits, if you have proper cooling of course :wink:. A regular heatsink with this voltage will have your CPU fried in no time; water-cooling is the way to go should you intend to increase your V-Core this much.
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Reviews 52637 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

OCAddiction has posted a review on the follow PC3200 DDR memory: Corsair XMS, GeIL and XtremeDDR.

I should also point out that only PC1600, PC2100, and PC2700 (the ones in bold) are currently certified by JEDEC. Which is the reason Via and SiS have withdrawn their official support for 400MHz memory at the moment. If a speed is not certified then compatibility issues can come up between the memory modules SPD and the motherboard's bios or chipset. Something you should be aware before picking up a few new sticks of RAM. Also, for those of you new to system building, just because you buy 400MHz memory doesn't mean it will automatically run at those speeds. You must raise your front side bus, memory bus or change the CPU:Memory Ratio to increase the memory bus to 200MHz. This will also overclock your processor unless you have an unlocked AMD CPU that you can lower the multiplier. But of course most of us want to overclock our processor so this isn't a problem.
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Reviews 52637 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Hexus.net has put up a Leadtek Twinforce 2 Motherboard & Graphics Card Bundle review.

I pleaded with Leadtek to let me keep it as a permanent sample for a box I had plans to build, which is as about as high a recommendation as I can give it. For it's purpose and taken in context as a relatively cheap games and media box, the bundle makes a lot of sense. This product comes recommended.
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