Vacation
Message: I
am on vaction from 14th of December up to 21st December. Full service will resume
3rd January 2000. This page is designed
for both readers and manufacturers / vendors for current review status on articles
recieved. Articles at BXBoards go through very thorough tests, including compatibility,
speed, memory stability, long-term overclocked stability and benchmarking. This
is across 6 CPU's as well, including Pentium III 450, Pentium III 500, P2-300,
Celeron 300a, Celeron 366, and P2-333 (for high bus speed tests). This takes times,
and boards are tested for at least 2/3 weeks before I even think about the review
text. We may not be the fastest, but we are thorough! This page
should hopefully show the Status of reviews as they go through the testing pipleine... Tyan
S1857-B Trinity 400 - We reviewed the BX version of this dual architecture
board a few weeks ago. By popular demand, we now have the VIA PC133A version with
AGP 4x too. Review
Status : Pending Soyo
SY-6VA133 (VIA PC133) - My review sample has been recalled by Soyo due to
an incompatibility I discovered with various Socket 370->Slot1 convertors.
Thi is a fault with my review board only! Here's a snippet from
the recall mail: "Sorry for the late reaction, but we had
to check in Taiwan about the problem that you had with the SY-6VBA133 and I had
a holiday for a week. In the mean time I have the answer to your problem, but
it cannot be solved with just a new BIOS. What I would like to propose is that
you send the sample that you have back to us and I will make sure that you receive
a sample back as soon as possible." Review
Status : Pending.
New Sampled arrived. Abit
BF6: The board I received was a very early version and appeared DOA. I finally
revived it, but its got major problems, including a failure to detect any hard
drives if more than one is connected. The BIOS is also dated May 1999 Evalution
BIOS and has Softmenu II not Softmenu III! BXBoards don't review pre-release hardware. Review
Status : AWAITING NEW SAMPLE AOpen
MX64 - Some
benchmarks done but AGP 4x does not seem to work with any TNT/2 cards that should
run at AGP 4x on an appropriate board. Awaiting new BIOS from AOpen. Seems to
run the Coppermine 550E stable at 733Mhz. 48 hours of Prime95 testing, and 24
hours of Quake2 massive demo so far. Looking good! Latest: Regarding the AGP4x
issue, here's a snippet from the e-mail "VIA will fix this problem by changing
the chipset's version from CD to CE." Review
Status : ON HOLD Iwill
VD133 - Coppermine benchmarks run. Seems a bit faster than i810E boards, but
a lot slower than a BX so far... Review
Status : Benchmarking Shuttle
AV61 (PC133) VD133 - Some benchmarks and compatibility testing done. Review
Status : Uncertain.
Will probably cancel this review in favour of AGP 4x boards. DFI
PW65-E - Intel i810-E mainboard. Some testing done. This board will appear
in an i810-E round-up. Review
Status:
Pending Elitegroup
P6IWT-A+ - Intel i810-E mainboard. Some testing done.
This board will appear in an i810-E round-up. Review
Status:
Pending
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