The SL-75DRV5 is the latest in the Soltek DRV series of popular and fast motherboards. Based on the VIA KT333 chipset, it utilises the new DDR333 technology and supports ATA/133 hard drives. It's built on Soltek's ...

The KT3 Ultra-ARU is about as feature laden as you could want a motherboard to be; the only thing missing is integrated LAN. The KT3 supports DDR333/PC2700 memory and ATA133 drives. Also featured are a Promise ...

One of the latest boards to come from Gigabyte is the feature rich 7VRXP, based around the VIA KT333 chipset. The board comes with Dual BIOS, USB2.0, RAID and integrated LAN. The Dual BIOS set up ...

Although it may be a new name to some, ECS has been around for quite some time, mainly in the OEM and system assembler markets. This version 3 of their popular Socket A based K7VTA3 motherboard ...

As is the norm with Asus boards, the A7V333 is littered with jumpers and the usual Dip-switches. With these and the BIOS, the board can be finely tuned to get the best possible performance. As for ...

Built around the VIA KT333 Northbridge and the VIA VT8233A Southbridge, AOpen's AK77-333 uses the now familiar AOpen "Black Beauty" PCB and can support ATA/133 as well as DDR333. The AK77-333 is a jumperless design with ...

Abit's AT7 is unlike any motherboard you may have seen in the past (with the exception of the IT7, the AT7's Intel sibling). One look at the I/O back plate tells you all you need to ...

If there's one thing that really ruins the PC's potential for use as an all-in-one entertainment centre, it's the noise. You might not be able to hear it in an office, but any home PC user ...

Following on from the successful KT266 chipset, VIA has launched another high performance chipset; the KT333. This is VIA's first chipset to offer support for DDR333 (PC2700) as well as DDR200/266 memory and is compatible with ...

The TS-ABR4/NR is one of the latest boards manufactured by Transcend and comes with both onboard LAN and support for an ATA-100 RAID setup. The PCB is well built, but seems lacking in features until you ...

Soltek's latest P4 DDR board is the SL-85DRV3 and a colourful beast it is too, based on a red PCB. There's also a matt silver heatsink, plus red IDE ports and yellow CPU fan connectors. In ...

MSI produces three versions of the MSI 845 Ultra, with the ARU being the most advanced. It's loaded with extra features such as onboard RAID, USB 2.0 support and additional security. Built on a red PCB, ...

The Asus P4S 333 is a compact board; so compact that none of components has much breathing space. Because of this, care must be taken when adding the cooling sink for the CPU as on all ...

If you have a multitude of USB devices then the Asus P4B 266 is a board you should seriously consider, as it comes with support for both USB 1.1 and 2.0 standards. Add to this a ...

Built around the same "Black Beauty" PCB as the AX4B Pro (also reviewed here), the AX45V is one of a growing number of motherboards using the SIS 645 chipset with its support for the latest PC-2700 ...

Given the name "Black Beauty" by Aopen, the AX4B Pro is based around a black PCB and is a no frills motherboard that performs well. Feature wise it's pretty standard stuff; three 184-pin DDR DIMM ...

A growing trend among custom PC case-makers is the installation of windows in the side panels to highlight the internal components. In fact at least one manufacturer makes a totally see-through case. As if to pander ...

The MS-6341 K7 Master board from Microstar MSI is another ATX form factor board and very similar in layout to the Gigabyte board, but this one has an AMD 761 chipset that supports Direct Sound AC97 ...

Gigabyte produces two versions of this board. The micro-ATX version has only three PCI slots but makes up for it with an on-board AC97 sound controller that's fully SoundBlaster compatible, plus an AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) card ...

FIC, otherwise known as First International Computers, manufactures its AZ11E board to run with either Duron or Athlon processors. It's specified as suitable for use with the fastest 1.2GHz AMD chip using the 200MHz or 266MHz ...