17th Hong Kong International Computer Expo – Computer 2001

Moving away from the booth showing ABIT boards, we came across a booth with some new Magic-Pro boards.  Magic-Pro is actually the name Soltek by in Asia, just like EPoX is called 2themax here. 

Magic-Pro MP-6VIP-DR

The above board is the new MP-6VIP-DR, using the VIA Apollo Pro266 chipset.  Below is the Magic-Pro dual Socket-370 solution, using the Apollo Pro133A chipset.

At the FIC booth, we saw the new FIC AN11 and AN11C boards, both of which use the new VIA KT266 chipset.  The AN11 features onboard IDE RAID, while the AN11C does not in the interest of cost savings. FIC has already finished developing these board, and they were demonstrating a working AN11 sample during the show.  You can expect to see the board on the market very soon.

FIC AN11

Over at the ECS booth, they were also demonstrating a KT266 solution, the K7VTA3.  While the reddish PCB may be considered quite attractive, the most impressive thing about the board is its price.  Priced less than US$110, it is far less expensive than most other DDR boards on the market.

ECS P4ITA

The P4ITA is ECS's Pentium 4 solution, which we should see on the market soon.