Motherboards - 8 articles
Everything plugs into this oversized PCB so make sure you do your homework before you buy one
With Intel’s dominance throughout the CPU market, many users are making the obvious decision of choosing the big ‘I’ over AMD. Also with the success of ATI’s latest graphics cards, most enthusiasts are going for either an ‘Xx8’ or ‘Px5’ series of motherboard.
One such motherboard which uses the P45 series chipset is the Foxconn DigitaLife ELA. Despite the odd sounding name, this board is ...
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Over the last few years, Intel have completely dominated the enthusiast CPU market, and thanks to recent problems with nVidia chipsets, Intel based mobos have become common place in the high end enthusiast and gamer system. To cater for this wider audience the Intel boards are appealing to, they have two ranges of boards the Xx8 boards for the overclockers, and the Px5 boards for the more ...
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With the introduction of HDMI pumping graphics cards, the motherboard market has jumped on the band wagon, with many featuring full HDMI output con audio. The abit AN-M2HD with it’s GeForce 7050PV and nForce 630a chipset is one such example, but today I have AMD/ATI’s reply; the Biostar TA690G AM2. As the name implies, this mATX motherboard uses the AMD 690G with onboard X1250 graphics.
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Recently, XSR and several other sites have posted previews of upcoming x38 motherboards, and the MSI Diamond was no different. Thankfully, we finally have our hands on the finished article and with some brand new testing equipment, hope to put it through it's paces. Let's see how it does.
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