Motherboards - 8 articles

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. Both ...

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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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With the X38 range of motherboards beginning to hit the market, the previews are coming thick and fast. I managed to get hold of MSI's first X38 board; the Diamond. This is a pre-release model with some changes still to be made but it gives us a rough idea of what it will look like; got some BIOS pictures too.

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In the past Nvidia have produced some of the best enthusiast chipsets around, most notably perhaps their nForce 4 for the old AMD 939 systems. Still, times have changed now and for quite a while Intel's 965P and 975P based motherboards were the way to go with LGA 775 systems. However, in recent times Nvidia have clawed their way back in with their feature packed 680i boards and we have finally ...

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In my mind, all motherboards are created the same. You buy one for your processor and your RAM. However, this is one time when I’m wrong… Today I have Abit’s AN-M2HD which features the media moguls favourite; HDMI.

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Over the last few years, the name Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel has become synonymous with gaming prowess. In the same way ABIT’s line of motherboards under the same name have themselves become synonymous with being the powerhouses of gamers computers the world over. Today I have managed to get my mitts on the Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI, lets see how well it lives up to its reputation.

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