Motherboards – Shuttle, Soltek, Soyo, Tyan

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Shuttle

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Shuttle had a lot to celebrate this Computex, as their XPC line of SFF machines has been doing very well, and they were quick to point that out. The fact that the Computex pressroom used Shuttle boxes for their setups is quite impressive, as well.

First up, is the Athlon 64 system that we should have reviewed here very shortly:

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Here are a handful of possible new case offerings from Shuttle:

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A prototype, but still cool to see, was this stock, water-cooled Shuttle box that will come in both Athlon 64 and P4 solutions.

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Finally, the Shuttle nForce3 motherboard was on display. I already have this board and you should see it in a review very shortly.

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Soltek

Soltek showed off a K8 solution for the VIA K8T800, K8M800 and the nForce3 150 chipsets. All three are shown below. However, Soltek was quick to point that a lack of available nF3 chipsets has forced them to move almost entirely to the VIA chipset line.

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Soyo

Soyo is one of the few manufacturers to actually show an ALi/ULi solution for the Athlon 64 processors.

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They also had an NVIDIA nForce3 150 motherboard as well.

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Tyan

Tyan had a few Athlon 64 and Opteron motherboards to show off, though only one that is aimed really at the regular end user market — that is the 2861 based on the VIA K8T800 chipset.

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Tyan has two boards using the AMD-8151 AGP bridge and the AMD-8111 chipsets and I have both of these boards in house already.

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Finally, the Tyan Tomcat is an AGP-free motherboard using the original AMD-8111 solution set.

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