Motherboards in 2001 Preview: Part 2

Transcend

At this year's Comdex, Transcend demonstrated two sets of DDR solutions, one for AMD and one for Intel. They did not announce a lot of new product seven though they were one of the first manufacturers to have a working Socket-370 DDR board. Together with their good history in the memory market, we can expect to see more from Transcend this coming year with regards to DDR development

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The TS-APR3 is Transcend's Socket-370 DDR solution. Transcend actually demonstrated the board during Comdex running 3DMark smoothly. It uses the VIA Apollo Pro266 chipset with 1 SDR DIMM slot and 3 DDR DIMM slots, supporting up to 1.5GB of DDR SDRAM. It also features 5 PCI slots and 1 ACR slot.

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This is the TS-ALR4, Transcend's Socket-A DDR board using the ALi MAGiK1 chipset. The 3 DDR slots can support up to 2GB DDR SDRAM.