Posted on Saturday, April 14 2007 @ 10:09 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
A few months back we took a look at the first real generation of Core2
boards which were based on the Intel 975x chipset. At the time it was
arguably the best chipset available for the Core2, however in recent times
both AMD and Nvidia have taken a stab at stealing the performance crown
with their 680i and 690 chipsets respectively. Our first look at the 680i
was hugely disappointing with the early reference designs being plagued
with problems, ranging from PS2 keyboard compatibility issues to quad core
bugs.
That said, some manufacturers took a little more time to bring their
products to market and so with this in mind we revisit the chipset in the
form of Abit's IN9 32X-MAX. The recently released Fatality F-I90HD is the
second product on test today, based on the brand new AMD 690 chipset it is
a more budget conscious board with great potential to compete with the
more expensive models. Finally we have Intel's D975XBX2, an updated
version of the original XBX which is the best Intel board we have used to
date.
Check it out
at DriverHeaven.