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Electic Tech was one of those (un)lucky few who got ahold of some of the early Tiger 133 boards. Well they are back with the latest rev. F motherboard, putting it through its paces. Here is their review and our review for comparison.

The Tiger133 is a major contender in the current workstation market because of its low cost and high-end feature list. The board does have its limitations, however, as a result of this low cost. There are no jumpers or BIOS controls for front-side-bus manipulation, as well as tight fan space - both of these may deter over clockers. The CPU performance is also average, though the memory performance is respectable. The AGP port can use some help, however, since a 4-speed port is essential for a modern day workstation platform.

The stability of the revision F board has been extremely trustworthy. Crashes are virtually non-existant (at least motherboard related crashes), and Tyan's tech support is devoted to continued development of BIOS updates for the board, as well as all of their other boards. In short, the board is definitely above average, though not an industry standard-setter.

Personally I don't see any reason for current Tiger 100 Rev. F owners to upgrade to the Tiger 133 and in the immortal words of J0rdan "You can pull it from my cold dead hands" the Tiger 100 Rev.F that is ;-)

06/15/2000 02:57 PM: Tyan Tiger 133 Review #2 by J0rdan
Electic Tech have a review of the Tiger 133 posted. Everyone has been a tad bit anxious regarding this motherboard of late. In part due to the mixed information that's been floating around the industr...

06/09/2000 01:41 AM: Tyan Tiger 100 rev F. Review by dadmin
I've been a busy boy lately, reviewing even more cool hardware. Since many of you are considering new SMP boards and can't or don't want to wait for the VIA-based boards to arrive, the Tiger 100 from...

06/06/2000 12:39 PM: Tyan Tiger 133: Not so bad?!? by Hooz
One of our Belgian readers was so discouraged by GamePC's review of the Tiger 133, he emailed his local Tyan manufacturer (Tyan.de) and asked them a few questions. They had a short, but interesting,...

06/02/2000 09:27 PM: Tyan Tiger 133 Review! by J0rdan
I fell out of my chair when I saw this link. The guys over at GamePC got their hands on a Tiger 133 and I know you've all been dying for this. Will the Tiger 133 coupled with the upstart Via Apollo 13...

05/15/2000 01:51 AM: Tyan Tiger 100 issues by dadmin
I've recently purchased a Tyan Tiger 100 and a pair of P3 600E's. I was truly hoping to run them both at 800MHz, as they would do so individually in my MSI BXMaster. Well it POSTs, gets into Windows...

05/05/2000 08:18 PM: Rioworks PDVIA vs Tyan Tiger 100 by nitro_fish
I saw this over at Akiba PC Hotline. They've got the Rioworks PDVIA going head to head with the Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard. As usual, I can not read much of the page but here is the whole article...

02/29/2000 06:57 PM: Supermicro Rumor and Cumines on a Tyan Tiger 100 by Micah
PC Accelerate has a few goodies for us today. The first is a rumor that Supermicro is going to be assimilated into the motherboard industry's equivalent of the Borg... Yes, it appears that Supermicr...

02/15/2000 06:03 PM: Review of the Tyan Tiger 100 (Sort of) by Micah
It seems the guys over at FullOn3D have taken a look at Tyan's Tiger 100... Sort of. The reason I say "sort of" is that the Tiger 100 is a workstation class slot1 motherboard, but the revi...

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