Gigabyte is one of the first manufacturers to bring out a retail board using AMD's latest 790GX chipset, in the shape of the GA-MA790GP-DS4H, which is a bit of a mouthful for a nice and feature-rich ...

Asus has rolled out the successor to its Maximus X38 motherboard with the startlingly unimaginative name of Maximus II Formula. The new model uses the P45 chipset which positions Maximus II below the Asus Rampage Formula ...

The MSI K9N2 Diamond is a mid-range gaming motherboard that supports the Phenom processor with three PCI Express graphics slots, four DDR2 memory slots and a huge passive cooling system on the chipset. The board uses ...

Asus has built its P5Q Deluxe motherboard around Intel's new P45 chipset and it packs in loads of features that are sure to appeal to the avid gamer. The main developments in P45 from the earlier ...

AMD's first stab at a quad-core processor was a bit of a turkey, as Phenom was plagued by a TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer) error that required a temporary fix before the processor could be launched. Although ...

One of the latest boards form Asus is the M3N-HT Deluxe, based around Nvidia's new nForce 780a SLI chipset which offers 3-Way SLI support for AMD processors, as well as bringing Nvidia's new HybridSLI technology to ...

At first glance, Sapphire's PI-AM2RS780G looks like the perfect board to base an HTPC (Home Theatre PC) around. But digging a little deeper reveals that it is something of a missed opportunity, which is a real ...

Right, were you paying attention at the back? Did you spot the 'E' in the product name for Gigabyte's latest P35 motherboard? No? Well, it's easy to miss at first glance, but as far as Gigabyte ...

If you are looking to build an HTPC or media center PC, there are many Micro-ATX motherboards to choose from. But one that may have escaped your eye is the I-N73HD from Abit; which would be ...

Nvidia's 780i chipset is the latest high-end offering and is basically an update on the company's popular 680i chipset, using a third chip, the nForce 200, to bring an additional 32 lanes of PCI-E. These support ...

The first Striker Extreme motherboard from Asus used an Nvidia nForce 680i SLI chipset, to combine an Intel LGA775 processor with dual Nvidia graphics cards for maximum gaming power, and now it's time for an update. ...

For a time AMD took a technical lead over Intel with Athlon 64, but that lead came to an abrupt end when Intel launched its superb Core architecture. There's no denying that Core 2 Duo and ...

Late last year we reviewed the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650. This was the first 45nm Penryn processor to slip out of Intel's laboratory and, while it was impressive, it had very similar performance to the ...

MSI's K9A2 Platinum presents us with a couple of firsts: it's the first motherboard that we've seen that supports AMD's latest AM2+ processors (i.e. the Phenoms) and it's also the first we have seen that uses ...

Intel is releasing information about its next-generation Penryn Core 2 processors in carefully controlled stages. Penryn is the code name for the move from a 65nm process to 45nm, which dramatically reduces the size of the ...

Let's talk chipsets. Intel introduced its P31/P33/P35 family of Core 2 Duo chipsets six months ago, but it left a gap at the top of the range for an Extreme performance chipset that would replace the ...

There seems to be no limit to the cost of high-end motherboards; charging £180-£250 for a motherboard is the norm these days, but what about us mere mortals? What we could do with is a feature-rich ...

Most motherboard manufacturers at one time or another have dipped their toes in the mobile CPU motherboard market, with varying degrees of success. Some give it up as a bad job while others doggedly keep going. ...

One of the first motherboards to hit the shelves using Intel's new Series 3 chipsets came not from one of the usual suspects - Asus, MSI or Gigabyte - but from Foxconn. You may not have ...

The P5K3 Deluxe Wi-Fi AP Edition is Asus's take on a high-end gaming motherboard that uses the Intel P35 chipset. Naturally it supports the new 1,333MHz FSB and, as you might have guessed from the P5K3 ...