Reviews 52663 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

VIA Hardware has taken a look at the VIA 686b south bridge and the combination of six different sound cards.

Nearly 6 months later, how well do the various fixes for the 686B bug work? Today we shall find out by using the various 4in1’s, George’s patch, and of course sound card replacements with an old and newer BIOS for a KT133A motherboard to see if there have been any changes since the issue was first discovered. Just to make sure if the problem occurs in newer VIA chipsets, we will also use a KT266 board to verify that the SB Live problems don’t occur in future VIA Southbridge’s.
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Reviews 52663 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Accelenation has posted a review on Mushkins High-Performance DDR-SDRAM.

Mushkin chose to use Heat Spreaders with their High Performance DDR unlike the High Performance SDR previously tested. I am told these heat spreaders were designed by Michael at Lost Circuits and he did a fine job with them I must say :):
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