The Springdale Showdown

[Ian]

HotHardware writer Rob just put the finishing touches on a 5-Board Springdale round-up featuring i865PE based products from Abit, Asus, Albatron, Chaintech and MSI. They cover the features, bundles, BIOS, performance and overclockability of each board in detail, and when the dust settled, one board stood out in the crowd:

This is the kind of article that reviewers live for. Not a simple one-on-one comparison, but a full-blown, knock-em-down, street fight for bragging rights. Actually, we think round-ups like this are similar to a beauty pageant. Sure, there's plenty of good-lookers on the stage, but which of them has that special something which will distinguish them from the rest. Bikini jokes aside, it's what separates the stellar candidates from the mundane that really makes for an interesting show, or reading, in this case. What will each board bring to the table in its effort to claim the top spot? Will it come down to the fastest performer? The best looking board? The number of goodies in the bundle? Or will any of the boards bring all three aspects into one fine package.

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