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Photos: Via's Little Motherboards
News Via Technologies' Mini-ITX, Nano-ITX, Pico-ITX and Mobile-ITX are smaller than regular motherboards, with each about 50 percent smaller than the one to its immediate left. The first three motherboards are already available, while the Mobile-ITX...
[June 6, 2007, 10:56]
Power Delivery Design Issues For Hi-Speed USB On Motherboards
White Papers This paper provides guidelines for the proper power delivery design for Hi-Speed USB ports and front panel headers on motherboards. The material covered here is broken up into three main categories: designing for droop test, designing for drop test...
[October 4, 2004, 0:00]
Intel Motherboards Get Tuneful
News Intel motherboards will soon sing different tunes. Intel and Musicmatch on Thursday announced plans to include Musicmatch's Jukebox software and online music download service with future Intel desktop motherboards.
[April 15, 2004, 16:45]
Mini Motherboards Find Niche
News Two manufacturers, Via Technologies and AsusTek, announced smaller motherboards at the Computex trade show here, while a smaller Taiwanese company, Shuttle, has begun selling them already. Computer motherboards are the cards that house primary...
[September 26, 2003, 10:55]
'Not A Recall' - Dell To Replace Some Biz-PC Motherboards
News The problem has to do with a flaw in how the Nvidia graphics chip works on the motherboards of OptiPlex GX200 computers. Because the graphics chip is embedded into the motherboard rather than residing on a separate card inserted into the system...
[February 5, 2001, 9:12]
Via Unveils Mini Notebook And Motherboards
News The Taiwanese company is also showing off motherboards that will appear in smartphones in about a year. As a result, hobbyists have gravitated to the company's motherboards and chips for turning PCs into cigar boxes and Star Wars shrines.
[June 6, 2007, 10:04]
DDR400 For Athlon: A Comparison Of 9 Motherboards
White Papers Boasting about their features - they're all good at that. But when it comes to outperforming its predecessor, the KT333 chipset, there's dissension in the KT400 camp. DDR400 doesn't seem to be the be-all and end-all of RAM because only rarely do...
[September 19, 2004, 0:00]
Best Socket 939 AGP Overclocking Motherboard
Forum I haven't actually tried the overclocking myself but from my experience the most reliable motherboards are gigabyte and asus. I've had plenty of MSI, Asrock and other brands die on me or on clients and even when I've past on old motherboards from...
[November 28, 2006, 11:09]
Intel Motherboard Whacked By Chip Noise
News The issue was brought to light by an Intel customer, who observed the problem on a "small number" of 820 motherboards with the MTH and SDRAM. The company announced Wednesday morning that it will replace motherboards using its 820 chip set that are...
[May 10, 2000, 15:02]
Athlon Dual-processing Could Be Nigh
News The first dual-processor motherboards for the AMD Athlon processor have begun to appear on the market, though they have yet to be formally announced. AMD is in the midst of building on its success in the desktop PC market to begin selling more...
[May 11, 2001, 16:11]
Some Dell PowerEdge Servers Die After Smoking
News Defective motherboards used in Dell's PowerEdge 1650 servers can cause the systems to overheat, bellow smoke and then die, according to the company. Dell said the problem occurs because certain motherboards have a faulty inductor -- a component...
[January 22, 2004, 15:10]
Intel Expands Motherboard Empire
News The CPU giant recently hatched plans to broaden licensing of its board designs after quietly making Intel-licensed motherboards available since the first quarter of this year. Designing motherboards supports a fundamental roadmap: we're at the...
[August 20, 1996, 10:24]
RACE++ Series ImpactRT MB2 CompactPCI Motherboard
White Papers RACE++ Series ImpactRT MB2 CompactPCI (cPCI) motherboards from Mercury Computer Systems allow developers to create scalable, high bandwidth solutions for real time digital signal and image processing in a 6U CompactPCI form factor.
[October 4, 2004, 0:00]
Via Extends Mini-PC Support
News Via Technologies says that a number of manufacturers have signed up to use its Mini-ITX line of motherboards, opening the door to broader availability of compact, low-powered PCs and information appliances.
[June 10, 2002, 16:17]
Intel To Take $200m Charge In 2Q
News Intel said late Tuesday it will take a second-quarter charge of $200m, or two cents a share, to replace defective motherboards. It said users of the company's 820 chipset motherboards, which hold all the chips that run a PC, had problems with their...
[June 21, 2000, 11:44]
Integrated PCs Aid Intel
News Vendors are readying a wave of smaller, cheaper PCs with integrated motherboards. Although integrated motherboards are nothing new, the Intel initiative is likely to start a trend. Hewlett-Packard will announce Monday the first microtower desktop...
[July 31, 1998, 13:45]
Developing Markets To Get Low-power PCs
News VIA Technologies, manufacturer of chipsets, low-power processors and small-form factor motherboards, is ramping up plans to develop a platform for computing in the developing world. Its mini-ITX motherboards come with all these components built in...
[February 1, 2005, 15:50]
Server Maker Expands Dual-board Server Line
News Open Source Systems, a small Silicon Valley server maker, is expanding its Gemini line of machines, which combine dual motherboards in a single 3.5-inch chassis. The company's best-selling model is the Gemini 2U, a model launched about six months...
[March 19, 2007, 9:43]
Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance, Say Developers
News HT-enabled motherboards show markedly degraded performance under heavy load. We've had fun and games in the past when we've enabled hyperthreading for testing and we'd seen that motherboards had started to arrive with it enabled.
[November 18, 2005, 10:55]
AMD Launches New Desktop Athlon 64s
News The new chips are designed to work with more inexpensive components and motherboards than earlier high performance devices: AMD also intends that Socket 939 will become the standard for desktop Athlon motherboards.
[June 1, 2004, 14:40]
