Motherboards in 2002: Preview from Comdex

Tyan

Our last motherboard visit was to Tyan and we stumbled upon three boards of interest:

The first board is the Tyan Thunder K7X which is a derivative of the Thunder K7 except based on the AMD 760MPX chipset. Outside of the use of three 64-bit/66MHz PCI slots (instead of the 33MHz variety), the board is identical to the Thunder K7.

Next we have the Tiger MPX which is nothing more than the Tyan Tiger MP but based on the 760MPX chipset. The board now features two 64-bit/66MHz PCI slots courtesy of the new AMD 768 South Bridge.

The most interesting board of all was Tyan's P4X266 based Pentium 4 board. If you know anything about Tyan's history you'll know that they have been very close to Intel, but this release seems like a very strange move for Tyan. With the majority of manufacturers backing off of the P4X266 release Tyan, of all the possible manufacturers, will be shipping a P4X266 board within the coming weeks. Is it a smart move for Tyan? With the SiS 645 chipset ready and Intel's DDR enabled 845 soon to arrive, we don't think so.