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Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-31-2010 Category: Motherboards ECS has taken the 785G chipset, and added a few features not found on many motherboards including Special ACC, eJiffy and 15 micron gold plating. This results in a better motherboard for overclocking versus the 785GM-M board which... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-24-2010 Category: Motherboards ECS is known for having less expensive products than their competition and the ECS H55H-M motherboard is a perfect example of using a mainstream chipset without all of the bells and whistles of the competition to deliver a motherb...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-19-2010 Category: Motherboards In terms of features the GIGABYTE MA790FXTA-UD5 motherboard is second to none on the AMD market right now with support for SATA 3, USB 3, AM3 CPUs, 3-way CrossfireX and more. The inclusion of so many new features can cripple the f...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 01-03-2010 Category: Motherboards In terms of target market, the ASUS P7H55D-M EVO board fits the bill as the cornerstone of a digital home theater PC. The integrated graphics are good enough to run Blu-ray discs when paired with a powerful processor like the Core...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-03-2010 Category: Motherboards Realizing that the majority of computer users use their computer for other tasks than playing Dirt 2 or Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Intel's new Clarkdale CPU accomplishes two tasks. Full support of Blu-ray playback and encoding...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-27-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS is well known for their motherboards and the Z8NA-D6C fits the bill as a motherboard that can act as a server or a workstation with dual Xeon CPUs. While the cost of a Xeon system is expensive for the most high-end CPUs, ther...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-30-2009 Category: Motherboards From a features point of view the GIGABYTE P55A-UD6 is outstanding. Support for the latest technologies including SATA 6 Gb/second, USB 3.0, SLI and CrossfireX make this board the choice of the enthusiast wanting the latest and gr...
Author: Anthony Reynolds Date: 11-15-2009 Category: Motherboards Intel bills the DP55WG as a Media machine with a touch of Extreme. With Firewire, and a fully fledged audio solution in the form of a Realtek ALC889 which has content protection and Firewire, the DP55WG is a great solution for tho...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 11-15-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS has taken the winning combination of the ASUS P7P55D Premium motherboard and improved it by adding USB 3.0 support making a great board even better. Features-wise the P7P55D-E Premium outclasses everything on the market with ... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-07-2009 Category: Motherboards This board performs great, with performance in the same class as other motherboards in this chipset. Overclocking was a bit of a mixed bag as the 750 CPU was able to overclock to 4GHz without issue but the voltage options did not ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-04-2009 Category: Motherboards The P55 Express and LGA-1156 CPU combination has been a success for Intel as they have no real competition in this market due to the lack of a license for NVIDIA and the lack of serious competition from the AMD guys in the CPU spa...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-26-2009 Category: Motherboards For the target market of the AMD Socket AM3 CPU purchaser the ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO doesn’t get much better than this as the board looks good, performs great and has the features you would want from a motherboard with integrated gra...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-18-2009 Category: Motherboards Phase Power and much more bring this board to one of the most feature-rich P55 motherboards on the market today. The inclusion of a external SATA kit with all the wires and cables needed adds additional value to the board. GIGABYT...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-01-2009 Category: Motherboards ASRock is not well known in the enthusiast community as they often have niche motherboards based on esoteric chipsets with unique features found nowhere else. This board is the first board I’ve seen with the new SATA 6Gb/s interfa...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-16-2009 Category: Motherboards Intel has done a great job with the DP55KG Extreme motherboard. The board overclocks decently, but the real treat for this board is on the automatic overclocking that Turbo Boost provides. The board automatically changes the multi...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-13-2009 Category: Motherboards The MSI P55-GD65 has a few distinctions over the P55-CD53 motherboard which I reviewed on launch day. First is the ability to do Voltage Checkpoints, which the other board cannot do. Second is the higher Overclock ability (slightl...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-13-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS has really gone the extra mile with their P7P55D Deluxe board with performance that exceeds that of its competition and a slew of new features including the Hybrid Phase and Xtreme Design. The board overclocked using ASUS’s a...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-11-2009 Category: Motherboards GIGABYTE has gone the extra mile with this board. The board performed well in the default settings against the other P55 boards. The board overclocked to over 3.5GHz on air cooling which is not insignificant when using the 2.66GHz...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-07-2009 Category: Motherboards The Intel P55 Express chipset and the LGA-1156 CPUs are Intel’s new mainstream solution replacing the Core 2 Quad and Duo solutions earlier. As such the MSI P55-CD53 motherboard is a value board with costs of around $109 online at...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-07-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS motherboards have always been a favorite among the enthusiast crowd and us reviewers here at motherboards.org as they offer a high degree of overclocking features and the ability to tweak their boards that is second to none. ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-13-2009 Category: Motherboards This is an early look at the new ASUS P7P55D Deluxe motherboard. With a slew of new features and innovations this looks to solidify ASUS's position as THE choice for hardcore enthusiasts. Once the Core i5 CPU launches, we'll have ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-10-2009 Category: Motherboards ECS's board is a great fit for the Home Theater PC user that wants a quiet system with no fans besides the CPU cooler. The board has all of the features that you would want from a HTPC motherboard including HDMI, DVI-D and VGA po...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 08-09-2009 Category: Motherboards Intel is about to release their new series of CPUs in the weeks ahead and we were lucky enough to get our hand on a few of the latest motherboards that support this new platform. Today you will get to see three new motherboards ah...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-06-2009 Category: Motherboards The MA785GMT-UD2H motherboard has a lot going for it. It is relatively inexpensive at 89.99 on Newegg as of this morning. For that price you get the full package including the best featured integrated graphics on the market, High ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-02-2009 Category: Motherboards From the perspective of a gamer that is used to playing games with all of the settings on maximum and with high resolution, the 785GM-E65 is a bit of a disappointment, being that performance in games is not fully playable with hig...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 07-24-2009 Category: Motherboards A full-fledged X58 motherboard for under $170 was just a dream a year ago, fully realized with the ASRock X58 Extreme motherboard. ASRock offers most of the features of the X58 SuperComputer with the exceptions being 3 full length... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-16-2009 Category: Motherboards EVGA put a serious amount of time, energy and effort into the design of this motherboard, and it shows in all the features and extras this motherboard has. This is no amateur product, in fact it's really a motherboard that is gear...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-08-2009 Category: Motherboards From a features point of view the G41TM-E43 motherboard delivers for the HTPC user. Features like Blu-Ray audio playback through the onboard sound, an ok integrated graphics chip with the G41, HDMI and DVI-D support on the rear I/...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-25-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS has taken the Core i7 platform and turned it into a pseudo supercomputer. The combination of three NVIDIA Tesla cards and a Quadro card brings up to four TeraFLOPS of possible computing performance. Performance of the board i...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-23-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS has set a reputation among enthusiasts of offering high-priced excellent performing gaming motherboards of choice with their Republic Of Gamers motherboards and the CROSSHAIR III Formula is an excellent example of its breed. ...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 06-21-2009 Category: Motherboards Overclocking on this motherboard is for enthusiast users and not the faint of heart, because to get the optimum results you must use the overvoltage options. You can easily achieve a 15-20% overclock with most of the retail CPUs a...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-12-2009 Category: Motherboards From a platform point of view the Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard fits the bill as a motherboard that supports AMD's latest CPUs on the AM3 platform including the 810 we used for this review. Features-wise this board has all of...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-11-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS has done their usual solid job with a new motherboard release. As the chipsets used on this motherboard are not new, the performance across different boards using these two chipsets should be pretty close and they are. A lot ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-02-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS motherboards are favorites of me and Doc Overclock. In fact, almost every motherboard in our personal systems has an ASUS motherboards installed on them. The P5Q Pro Turbo is a good motherboard, with performance, features and...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-01-2009 Category: Motherboards The fact of the matter is that the P45 chipset is delegated to the mainstream and value market right now. If you want the fastest CPU and best platform that is the Intel Core i7 and X58 combination as the AMD Phenom IIs is simply ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-10-2009 Category: Motherboards So what differentiates this board from the many other ASUS P6 motherboards on the market? The P6T SE is one of the few X58 motherboards currently available on the open market, which does not support SLI out of the box. Balancing t...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-07-2009 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte has done their usual stellar job with the EX58-UD4P motherboard. This board overclocked to 3.8GHz on air without voltage tweaks. Had the board reached 4GHz as several of the X58 boards have reached, this product would hav...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-20-2009 Category: Motherboards In terms of features, the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP UD4H motherboard has it all. It fully supports the new Phenom II CPUs on the market on the AM2+ Socket including the Phenom II X4 940 and Phenom II X3 710 CPUs we have in-house. The ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-12-2009 Category: Motherboards AMD’s launch of the AM3 platform is an interesting one from many angles. For the new computer owner the move to DDR3 memory is pretty clear as fewer and fewer motherboards with DDR2 memory support are hitting the market today comp...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-02-2009 Category: Motherboards The ASUS M4N72-E motherboard has its strong and weak points. The strong points include SLI support, support for AM3 CPUs out of the box as it’s a new design and a solid bundle. Performance was lower than other chipsets but that is...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-02-2009 Category: Motherboards This board supports the latest AM3 CPUs without BIOS modification, which is a good thing. The board is available online for $69.99, making it a good value based choice for the AMD platform. Performance is within parameters of usin...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-03-2009 Category: Motherboards I went into this review with a few bad experiences with ASRock boards in the past but an open mind as to this board. As they are not as big as other motherboard manufacturers in the enthusiast end of the motherboard market, it was...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-10-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS has done a superlative job with the P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard. This board scored among the highest of any X58 motherboards in terms of features and performance nearly across the board. ASUS bills this motherboard as the ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-26-2009 Category: Motherboards The XFX MB-X58I-CH19 motherboard is XFX’s second motherboard to use an Intel platform, with the first being the G31 based board we reviewed last year. XFX has diversified successfully with their two Intel boards and numerous ATI b...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 01-25-2009 Category: Motherboards The GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3R board is an interesting motherboard in this day and age of economic crisis. While the Core i7 and the like outperform the P45 and X48 motherboards with the Core 2 Duo and AMD Phenom II CPUs by a wide marg...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-09-2009 Category: Motherboards XFX has a very interesting product with the nForce 750i SLI board. It overclocks very well with the 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo hitting over 3.2GHz on air cooling. That is a pretty impressive feat considering how generally un-overclocker f...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 12-30-2008 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte now joins the other motherboard manufacturers on the planet with their own special branding of their X58 chipset motherboard. Features like Hybrid SilentPower 2, Dynamic Energy Saving and EasyTune 6 set the EX58 Extreme a...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 12-28-2008 Category: Motherboards Intel has a lot to be happy about with their new CPU and X58 family launch, firmly taking over the enthusiast market with new processors that are clearly faster than the last generation. The DX58SO motherboard is nearly as fast as...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 12-19-2008 Category: Motherboards The ECS X58B-A Black Series motherboard is available online for a price of only $260. This compares favorably in the price department to other X58 motherboards which have a heftier premium. As we move into 2009 we’ll likely see th...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 12-09-2008 Category: Motherboards ASUS's P6T Deluxe OC Palm Edition is the perfect example of what a new motherboard chipset should be when released. Every conceivable feature including SLI, CrossfireX, 24GB DDR3-1600MHz support, and the general build quality that...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 12-09-2008 Category: Motherboards MSI has exceeded all expectations with the MSI X58 Eclipse motherboard with a bundle like you wouldn’t believe, performance that matches or beats the competition in this marketplace and overclocking ability like there’s no tomorro... Author: Ben Sun Date: 11-18-2008 Category: Motherboards The AMD chipset platform is constantly changing with new releases from AMD and NVIDIA to satisfy any need that may arise. The 790GX chipset is geared at providing the best integrated graphics performance on this platform and it su...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-29-2008 Category: Motherboards ASUS has been the motherboard maker of choice for hardware enthusiasts for several years due to features like overclocking options in the BIOS, features of the motherboard, and performance of their boards. The ASUS M3A79-T board h...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-29-2008 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte has done what they set out to do with the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P. This motherboard combines the features of the P45 chipset, the performance that one expects from a Gigabyte board and the new Ultra Durable 2 technology which ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-16-2008 Category: Motherboards In terms of overall graphics performance, the GeForce 9300 is in a class by itself on the Intel side of things. While the G45 struggles to maintain any kind of playable frame rates in the games that I tried and crashed 3DMark Vant...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-14-2008 Category: Motherboards MSI has built a stellar motherboard with the DKA790GX Platinum board. The board has all of the features that you would want from a 790GX motherboard including HD 3300 graphics with CrossfireX capability, ACC overclocking and more....
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-06-2008 Category: Motherboards ASUS tends to make high quality motherboards that are popular with a wide variety of hardcore enthusiasts and the ASUS M3N78 Pro has the features to contend with the best of the AMD chipsets available. The integrated graphics on t...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-01-2008 Category: Motherboards Intel sells their X48 chipset as the high-end model of their chipset line at the moment and the ECS X48T-A motherboard is a typical example of an X48 chipset motherboard. ECS boards are generally less expensive than other Tier-1 m...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-19-2008 Category: Motherboards The Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 has all of the features you would want from a motherboard based upon the Intel P45 and more. The board is so feature-laden in fact that I would have to say it’s a bit over the top compared with most of its co...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-01-2008 Category: Motherboards I’m of two minds on the 790GX chipset in general. Yes this is the fastest integrated graphics on the market period. Yes, it features the new SB750 Southbridge which adds RAID 5 functionality to the chipset, and yes, the chipset su...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 08-19-2008 Category: Motherboards The P45 chipset from Intel is a very successful replacement for the P35 chipset that preceded it. The Gigabyte EP45-DS4 has a few issues but none that are showstoppers or enough to warrant actual complaint. The fact that the board...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 08-16-2008 Category: Motherboards From a performance point of view, the ASUS Maximus II Formula is simply head and shoulders above the other P45 motherboards I’ve tested in the important categories of Sysmark (overall system score) and 3DMark (Graphics scores). Fr...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 08-07-2008 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte’s X48T-DQ6 is in many ways the exact same board as the Gigabyte X48-DQ6 in terms of layout, configuration with the main difference being the support of DDR3 memory on the board, which the other board does not support. The...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 08-05-2008 Category: Motherboards This motherboard is available online for $150, making it targeted for the mid-range market and not the enthusiast motherboard market another board in the $200-300 range would be in. The board has support for SLI after setting jump... Author: Ben Sun Date: 07-29-2008 Category: Motherboards Integrated graphics on the AMD platform have never been better, however. With the launch of the 780G chipset form AMD based upon the HD3200 and the launch of the GeForce 8200 from NVIDIA there is real performance from both chipset... Author: Ben Sun Date: 07-24-2008 Category: Motherboards ASUS is a favorite among hardware enthusiasts as their boards offer many extras that aren’t found on the mundane motherboards like good overclocking, a good bundle and tweaks that allow the overclocker to work with their motherboa...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 07-20-2008 Category: Motherboards Intel released their latest chipset, the Intel P45 chipset just a short month or so ago. The newest chipset includes new features like being built on the 65 nanometer process, support for the new ICH10R Memory Controller Hub and s...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 07-14-2008 Category: Motherboards Integrated graphics have been widely regarded as a joke among hardware enthusiasts as they are generally underperforming, feature deficient and have drivers that don’t support the latest features in the case of the Intel integrate...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 07-03-2008 Category: Motherboards The X48 Express chipset was launched a month or two ago to great acclaim as it introduced new features like the FSB 1600MHz CPUs (Yorkfield) and sported a new MCH. The X48 chipset has been a success in the market place as AMD’s Ph...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-03-2008 Category: Motherboards AMD has made the 790FX chipset their high-end chipset and as such, the Gigabyte MA-790FX-DS5 is designed to work with the newest Phenom B3 CPUs. Gigabyte has done an outstanding job outfitting this card with the features that you ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-19-2008 Category: Motherboards The board features everything you could possibly want from a new motherboard today including DDR3 support, external SATA support, Crossfire support, and saves energy while delivering the features and performance you want from a ne... Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-04-2008 Category: Motherboards Intel motherboards dominate the market since their CPUs also dominate the market. Their main rival in the consumer business AMD has continued to struggle with their business mainly due to the inability of their CPUs to compete wit...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-30-2008 Category: Motherboards Elite Computer Systems has been around making motherboards and video cards among other computer related components for years. Mostly known as a value motherboard maker in recent years, ECS today has tried to change all of that wit...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-21-2008 Category: Motherboards The new Intel E7200 was able to achieve a 3.56GHz speed over its normal 2.56GHz default setting, and the E8500 was able to go from 2.53 all the way up to a 4.2GHz increase completely stable. This is excellent results and shows th...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-26-2008 Category: Motherboards ASUS has done a wonderful job with their ASUS MAXIMUS Formula board. Based upon Intel’s X38 chipset, the Maximus Formula brings the performance, the features and the stability one would expect from a top of the line motherboard fr...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 03-19-2008 Category: Motherboards EVGA is a company that has pounded the pavement with NVIDIA products for almost a decade now and they show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. For every release NVIDIA has EVGA has a solution based on that product, usually with...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-29-2008 Category: Motherboards XFX has long been known as one of the top video card makers in the NVIDIA camp, with many overclocked versions of their video cards reaching the market. Recently, they’ve also started manufacturing motherboards based upon NVIDIA c... Author: Doc Overclock Date: 02-17-2008 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte uses the X48 Northbridge and ICH9R Southbridge combo to good effect. You’ll notice the inclusion of DDR2 memory instead DDR3 that the X48 chipset supports. The full feature set of X48 chipset and Gigabyte’s unique feature...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-10-2008 Category: Motherboards EVGA is best known for building NVIDIA video cards and their excellent technical support, but they have recently gone into making motherboards based upon NVIDIA chipsets as well. EVGA has built motherboards based upon the nForce 6...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 02-08-2008 Category: Motherboards Asus has always been one of the favorites of the hardcore enthusiast community with excellent overclocking potential on every one of their high-end boards, excellent performance and the features that matter most from each chipset....
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-27-2008 Category: Motherboards Asus reigns supreme when it comes to motherboard sales and they have the biggest selection of boards as well, being that they manufacture products from all the major chipset players including Intel, NVIDIA and ATI to name the majo...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-24-2008 Category: Motherboards The Intel P35 chipset was launched a little over 8 months ago as the replacement for the 965P platform that was the mainstream chipset equivalent to the 975X platform. The Bear Lake platform introduced new features including supp... |
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