Computex 2000 Coverage Day 2: Motherboards

ASUS

Another big stop for us was the ASUS booth. While they weren't showing anything too out of the ordinary in the booth, rumor has it that they were giving private showings of a Willamette in an unnamed Hotel suite.

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For starters we have ASUS' i815E based solution, the CUSL2. The board actually features two CNR slots and what appears to be an unusually thin PCI slot in order to make room for the two CNR slots. The two CNR slots are actually shared with the last two PCI slots thus letting you only occupy one or the other (CNR or PCI) at any given time.

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And then we have the microATX version.

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The successor to the impressive K7V, ASUS' Socket-A/KT133 A7V features the standard ASUS AGP Pro slot as well as an on-board Promise controller that adds ATA 100 support.