ASUS has always been known to produce high quality motherboards. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to review the ASUS P3V4X mainboard, which features the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset. Unlike ASUS, VIA hasn’t been known to manufacture high quality products. I wanted to see whether ASUS could provide a stable platform that is based on a chipset made by...

Motherboard SpecificationsCPU Interface Socket 7Chipset Via MVP3L2 cache 512 K / 1 MBForm Factor ATXBus Speeds 66 / 75 / 83 / 100 / 112 / 124 MHzClock Multipliers 1.5x –...

Over the past few years, CD writers have become more and more affordable. They have also become faster. In days past, scsi writers were the way to go if you wanted speed. That does not hold true these days. 4 or 5 years ago it was common to pay $750-$1000 on a 1 maybe 2 speed scsi “burner”. Hence came the less expensive IDE writers. Even though...

Creative Labs has long had a history of creating the standard by which all other multimedia companies base their product line. Their orignal sound card, the Sound Blaster, quickly became the standard, leaving other companies to try to make their hardware "sound blaster compatible". Creative...

www.smc.com 2000 was a big year for broadband.  Cable and dsl service exploded on the market. Being so affordable, it’s THE alternative to a 56k dialup. Not everyone can qualify for the services, I know, because I can’t get anything but dialup. So I got some help for this review from a friend, thanks jet_rider!  For the lucky people who...

Motherboard SpecificationsCPU Interface Socket 7Chipset Via MVP3L2 cache 1 MBForm Factor ATXVoltage Range 1.3 - ...

Motherboard SpecificationsCPU Interface Slot 1 / PPGA 370Chipset Intel 440BXL2 cache N/AForm Factor ATXVoltage ...

Two weeks ago, I was able to secure a copy of a copy of Whistler beta build 2296. (As of now there is a later release).  I chose to write this review in a “different” way. I will provide links to the rather large (1024X768) screenshots, while keeping the the “article” text on this main page to try and make it easier to navigate. Test...