Motherboards in 2002: Preview from Comdex

AOpen

Not seeing any value in being on the show floor, AOpen joined the majority of the Taiwanese manufacturers in the Venetian. They naturally had an 845 DDR solution which we should be receiving soon for our upcoming roundup.

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The SiS 645 chipset made its way into a couple of AOpen boards as well.

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The AK77 Pro was the most interesting of the Athlon solutions from AOpen, it is based on the KT266A chipset.

AOpen also had video cards using the newest NVIDIA GeForce3 graphic chips, including the GeForce3 Ti 500 and the Ti 200.