Remember VIA Technologies, the Taiwanese chipset manufacturer. Although I once found myself reviewing VIA based motherboards on a weekly basis, it has been over a year now since I last touched a retail motherboard that used a VIA chipset. This being the case I was literally stunned when I came across the ASUS P5VD2-MX which is designed for the new Core 2 Duo processors. I was stunned because this affordable little Micro-ATX motherboard not only supports Core 2 Duo processors, but it does so using the VIA P4M890 chipset! This article looks at the performance of the P4M890 when using a Core 2 Duo processor and compares it to high-end products such as the P965 and 975X.

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