Day 2 of this year's Fall
Comdex proved to be a much more filling portion of the hardware information we all know
and love, in spite of the fact that the area covered by AnandTech only spanned a few
booths and a couple of suites. Among those visited today were ATI, Diamond
Multimedia, and FIC. So without further ado, AnandTech presents you with Fall Comdex
'98: Day 2.
Motherboards: FIC
This is the last motherboard manufacturer
update from Comdex, I promise ;) FIC requested that I pay their booth a visit after
my extensive work over at the VIA booth in the Sands. So, today, I hopped on a taxi
over to the Las Vegas Convention Center and decided to soak up some of the cigarette smoke
filled air of the Convention Center. One thing's for sure, the Sands Convention
Center is much more spaced out and free than the Vegas Convention Center.
| In any case, FIC had a fairly interesting setup in their
booth, the primary topic in their booth was the idea of having a PC99 compliant mainboard.
Actually, a sample design of a PC99 mainboard was displayed by FIC, unfortunately
the prominent "Please No Pictures" sign prevented me from posting anything
visual about the product, but as Craig Campanaro from Sharky Extreme will tell you, it didn't keep me
from snagging a quick snap shot of it with my digital camera...it's amazing what
technology will allow you to do these days isn't it? ;) |
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| KZ-6000-V - This uniquity caught my
attention when I noticed the white tape over what was obviously a Socket-370 for use with
Intel's upcoming socketed Celeron processor. Why? Well, the board wasn't using
Intel's 440BX, LX, or even the upcoming ZX chipset, instead it featured VIA's own Apollo
Pro. While the Apollo Pro may be kept out of the Slot-1 market by the BX, it may
surely succeed in the low-cost Celeron 370 market as long as mainboard manufacturers
choose to allow for the operation of the 100MHz FSB setting, and hopefully the 112MHz and
124MHz settings will follow. |
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| On-Board Video - Nope, we're not talking
about the horrendously slow ATI 3D Rage Pro, FIC demoed a motherboard with an on-board
Matrox G200 accelerator, now how's that for quality? |
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| SiS Makes a Comeback - Even FIC, the
motherboard manufacturer who seems to always live and breathe VIA has a motherboard based
on a SiS chipset. The SiS 620 controller chip will be found on one of FIC's upcoming
Slot-1 motherboards, AnandTech will naturally put that board as well as all of the other
FIC motherboards through the tests they deserve in the near future. |
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