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Product News Release

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Juno Wang, Marketing
Tel: 886-2-26981719 ext. 207
Fax: 886-2-26981747
Date : Oct, 1998

DataExpert's MBX8440 Awarded
Best Buy Recommendation
from CHIP Magazine/Germany

DataExpert Corporation, the professional multimedia Motherboards leader, gladly
announced that its MBX8440 (Intel 82440BX chipset) motherboard received the
Best Buy award with the highest overall scores as published in the November issue
of CHIP Magazine.

The Quality Test was conducted by Chip Magazine test center in Germany. DataExpert
acquired the outstanding scores in performance, quality and manual/documentation, and
the highest in motherboard design (upgradability, memory/connectors/special feature
design). According to the test center professionals, "DataExpert's MBX8440 is the
right BX board for all purposes… all BX boards tested are at a very high level and quite
similar in terms of quality and performance. Only a few boards stand out. The DataExpert
MBX 8440 (No. 1 ) was granted "Best Buy" recommendation not only because it is in
the top ranks with respect to performance and quality, but also because it is a design
winner. With 4 PCI, 3 ISA and an AGP slot there are plenty of upgrade opportunities".

With Wake-on-Lan, optional audio capabilities on board, System health monitoring,
and many other practical features, DataExpert's MBX8440 out-performed those from
Abit, A-Open, Gigabyte, MSI, Chaintech in the overall Pentium II motherboard
purchasing consideration. Backed by the 3-year warranty, DataExpert's MBX8440 and
other motherboards from DataExpert's GLOBAL series are system integrator's best
choice when it comes to performance, reliability and stability.

Established in 1987, DataExpert Corporation specializes in total multimedia solutions. In addition to MBX8440 motherboard, DataExpert's DIT5740 (Intel740) video card was Chip Magazine/Italy test winner this May. For more information, please contact Mr. Bart Poels at the Netherlands or Mr. Jeffrey Yang in Taiwan.

Note: DataExpert awaits the official logo from Chip Magazine/Germany. The logo featured here
was received from Chip 11/98.
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SPECIFICATION CHIP VALUES
Sequence Model Form Factor Chipset FSB(MHz) Slots(ISA/ PCI/ AGP) Memory/ DIMM/ SIMM Performance Overall design Quality Documentation Total Value
1 DataExpert
MBX8440		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 194.7 80.5 21 24 84.8
2 Matsonic
MS707-OS		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 189.5 80.0 21 22 82.8
3 ABIT BX6 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 4/0 191.4 64.5 21 31 82.5
4 Chaintech
6 BTM		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 4/0 191.6 62.0 21 33 82.4
5 Tekram
P6 B40-A4X		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 4/0 197.1 63.0 21 25 81.6
6 MSI MS6116 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 4/0 195.7 60.5 21 25 80.6
7 ATREND
ATC 6220		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 196.6 56.5 21 28 80.6
8 EPOX
EP-618 XA-M		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 194.0 61.0 21 23 79.7
9 EliteGroup
P6BX-A+		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 194.5 59.0 21 23 79.3
10 AOPEN
AX6BC		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 196.8 57.0 21 23 79.2
11 Mycomp
TL -6NB		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 4/0 192.2 58.0 21 25 79.2
12 ABIT BH6 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 190.5 59.0 21 25 79.1
13 Free Tech
P6F91I		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 189.7 59.5 21 25 79.1
14 Gigabyte
GA/6BXC		 ATX 440BX 100 3/4/1 3/0 196.6 56.0 21 22 78.5
!!! BEST BUY !!! TOP
The right taking the exceptions all BX boards testd are at a very high level and quite
similar what quality and performance concerns. Only a few boards stard out. The
DataExpert MBX8440 (No.1) was granted " BEST BUY " not only because it in the top
ranks in respect of performance and quality but also because it is design winner.
With 4 PCI, 3 ISA and an AGP slot there are plenty of upgrade.