Sudhian Media has posted a review on the AOpen AK79G motherboard

When AOpen demonstrated their Tube Amp audio technology at the 2002 Comdex it grabbed headlines and interest as a product no one was sure what to think of. Most everyone agreed the board certainly looked unique (vacuum tubes are not often seen jutting out of modern computer equipment) but past that reactions varied considerably. We've seen several generations of Tube Amp motherboards for Intel boards but this is AOpen's first Tube board for the AthlonXP, so it'll be interesting to see how their Tube Amp technology works when paired with the nForce2 chipset.

The AK79G Tube is built on NVIDIA's nForce2-G chipset (meaning it offers integrated graphics) and uses the MCP-T southbridge without NVIDIA's sound solution. A Realtek ALC650 chip provides sound (we'll discuss the ramifications of this later in the review).

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