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Choosing your next motherboard gets a little confusing when it comes time to compare the never ending bullet point feature list manufacturers enjoy throwing out there. Thankfully most motherboards from top tier companies sport feature parity so there isn’t much of a guessing game as much as it is a choice of style. The Gigabyte [...]
Read more Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 for that feature overload feeling
Intel’s P55 chipset offers a dizzying array of advanced features but in order to bring its costs down, and keep it from competing with its bigger brother the X58, they cut out a few PCI Express lanes which are important for those with Multi-GPU dreams. In comes the ECS P55H-AK which takes the budget minded [...]
Read more ECS P55H-AK enjoys more lanes than most
Multi-GPU setups are expensive, and sometimes a bit of a pain to set up with all sorts of driver finagling, but when you start to jump into the 3 graphics card and up range you’re staring at some might expensive motherboard options in order to get the most out of them. The MSI Big Bang [...]
There has been a trend at the top of the motherboard market which sees a number of high priced models which push every conceivable barrier in the race to have the most powerful PC possible. The Gigabyte GA-X58-UD9 motherboard comes in at a wallet busting $700 US MSRP which is quite a bit for anything [...]
ASRock used to be the manufacturer of motherboards with…some interesting design decisions. Their budget products typically combined the latest CPU support with a chipset that was a generation or two behind and it somehow all worked quite well together. The ASRock P55 Extreme4 on the other hand plays things by the book so that means [...]
There used to be a distinct divide between server hardware and the desktop market, that is until Intel and AMD started adding reasonably priced server chips to their lineups making a trip into SMP world both intriguing and reasonable. The ASUS Z8NA-D6C motherboard is more than happy to help you on your way to computing [...]
AMD’s CPU performance has lagged Intel for a number of years now. That’s not to say that their chips don’t perform well but when you look at the other camp’s offerings it’s hard to pass up. The one saving grace for AMD is that their system chipsets have been top notch as of late so [...]
Read more AMD 890FX motherboards rounded up, the budget gamer’s choice
The Mini-ITX form factor promised all manner of space saving and energy friendly designs for scientific and industrial applications when it was launched but, as time went on, process refinements has turned it into a platform which can easily play host to some of the fastest processors and graphics cards on the market today. GIGABYTE’s [...]
Read more GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 is comfortable in cramped spaces
Intel has taken a good chunk of the CPU market for itself with its extremely powerful processor lineup but AMD’s focus on the whole computer, including the chipsets and graphics cards that make them tear through games ever so quickly, leads to some interesting performance and tweaking capabilities. The MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard works its magic [...]
Read more MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard plays friendly with AMD CPUs
The latest and greatest typically means it’s a few years off from hitting the mainstream so while the enthusiasts have been enjoying the hardware for over a year we’re finally starting to see an effort into pushing the older chipsets down to the affordable level. The ASUS P6X58D-E Xtreme Design Motherboard comes up big with [...]
Read more ASUS P6X58D-E Xtreme Design gets you in on the ground floor
Your desktop next to you, yeah that one right there, are you fully utilizing is potential. I mean the thing has several PCI or PCI-E slots but there’s nothing in them now is there? So why have a PC that takes up so much space when you can easily downsize. The GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 mini-ITX motherboard [...]
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