For once Asus hasn't picked a model code for this motherboard by grabbing a handful of letters from the Scrabble bag, but has instead has plumped for the name 'Commando'. Confrontational or what! This LGA775 design ...

The devil's in the detail with the model code for the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P Rev 3.3 motherboard. The 965P part is simple enough as this model uses an Intel P965 chipset, but then it starts to get ...

If you want to run a pair of Nvidia graphics cards in SLI mode then you need a motherboard with an Nvidia chipset. Given that a motherboard with an nForce 650i SLI costs about £70-£75, you ...

ECS has aimed for the high end of the market with its PN2 SLI2+ model. This LGA 775 motherboard uses the new Nvidia Nforce 680i chipset to give you, well, everything really, provided you favour Nvidia ...

Here's a motherboard that deserves to be shown off in a case with a transparent side panel. Why? Because the Pure CrossFire 3200 Advantage (also known as the PC-AM2RD580) is built on a white PCB with ...

The Foxconn K8M890M2MA-R2SH is an amazingly cheap Socket AM2 motherboard, which sounds like it ought to be the conclusion to a review but in reality it's a good starting point. There's only one way that a ...

The Fatal1ty branding on this Socket AM2 motherboard makes it clear that Abit is aiming this high-end board at the gaming market. The large package displays the Fatal1ty AN9 32X in a clear case and it's ...

The M2N32-WS Professional motherboard from Asus is part of the company's Main Station product line mainly aimed at workstations, but before you run screaming for the hills, it's worth mentioning that not only does it support ...

As the model name suggests, MSI has used the new ATi Radeon 1650 Pro chip in this graphics card. Despite the new name it looks as though the only difference between the Radeon X1600 and X1650 ...

Intel is on a roll after the launch of Core 2 Duo E6700 in July 2006 and here we are, a mere four months later, with the launch of the quad core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 ...

When Intel launched its superb Core 2 Duo processor (see review here), it also launched the 965 family of chipsets. The 965P was supposed to be 'the exciting one' as it was the performance option, but ...

The key feature of Gigabyte's GA-965P-DS4 motherboard is the chipset, but not necessarily in the way that you might expect. When Intel launched its superb Core 2 Duo processor (reviewed here), it was paired with the ...

AOpen's stable of motherboards for mobile CPUs grows ever stronger, the latest addition to the family ranks being this i945GTm-VHL. Like its sibling, the i945GTt-VFA, this board uses SO-DIMM memory modules which are normally to be ...

With the release of AMD's Energy Efficient Athlon64, 64 X2 and Sempron AM2 processors, the idea of building a powerful but quiet system into a small form factor case is actually achievable. At present there are ...

A number of motherboard companies have tried dipping their toes into the mobile-CPU-in-desktop-motherboard market over the years, but you can count on the fingers of one hand the number that have stayed the course. One company ...

In June 2003 Intel released the 3.2GHz Northwood Pentium 4 and after that it entered a black period with the Prescott core which failed miserably to produce decent clock speeds despite a move to a 90nm ...

Although overshadowed by the same-day launch of AMD's latest Socket generation, the AM2, Nvidia's latest chipset, the nForce 5, is the company's most powerful to date. Both of them come together on Gigabyte's new GA-M59SLI-S5, which ...

With the launch of Athlon 64 FX-62, AMD has also rolled out its new AM2 platform. This is a move from Socket 939 and Socket 754 to a new processor socket which has 940 pins. That ...

With Intel's introduction of the Core Duo mobile processor, desktop motherboards that use mobile CPUs have suddenly become a lot more interesting, but unfortunately they are still seen as niche products and so carry niche product ...

The Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 is a Micro-ATX Socket 939 motherboard that supports your Athlon 64 processor with an Nvidia GeForce 6100 chipset with Nforce 430 Southbridge. This chipset includes graphics which are based on the GeForce 6200 ...