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hardCOREware.net checked out the Gigabyte 8IPE1000 Pro2-W 865PE motherboard with WiFi

When choosing a motherboard for your Northwood 2.4C, you need to consider one thing above all others: can it overclock at a high FSB rate? Well with this new board from Gigabyte, the answer is clearly YES.

But that's not the big feature of the GA-8IPE1000 Pro2-W! It adds a ton of functions, not the least of which is an included WiFi adapter, something we are starting to see more and more on high end boards. One question you may have about this board is how well it performs with the 865PE chipset - at default settings this chipset can be quite a dog compared to the 875P... What did Gigabyte do to remedy this?

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VR-Zone has a review up on the latest AX4GS Max II board from AOpen based on the Intel 865G chipset, officially supporting Prescott.

Reviews 52700 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Hardcoreware checked out the Vantec Aeroflow 2 Socket 478 Cooler

One of our favorite price/performance coolers today is the original Vantec Aeroflow. It is engineered perfectly to effectively benefit from the design of a TMD fan. It performs quite well, and is priced very well at just around $20. But many people tend to avoid using TMD fans on their precious CPU's, due to the fact that they were recalled in 2002. In addition to that, we have heard numerous reports of Aeroflow fans dying or making a lot of noise after a while.

To offer a solution to those who want an Aeroflow but not necessarily the TMD fan that goes with it, Vantec is introducing the Aeroflow 2. But what does it have that could make it special if not for a TMD fan?

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