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 ...

ATI's CrossFire dual graphics technology has had a protracted and painful birth, but now more products are becoming available that support the technology. One of the latest motherboards to appear is the KA1 MVP Extreme from ...

The Epia-N is the first of VIA's new Nano-ITX form factor motherboards. This new form factor is a mere 12cm by 12cm, a development of VIA's successful 17cm x 17cm Mini-ITX design. Officially launched in March ...

AMD has taken a bold step with the latest version of the Athlon 64, as the new FX-60 has a clock speed that is 200MHz slower than the previous FX-57. At first glance this seems like ...

There is a growing band of people who can see the benefits of taking a CPU originally aimed for use in laptops and putting it to work in desktop PCs. This results in less power, less ...

The DFI LAN Party UT RDX200 CF-DR is the first Socket 939 CrossFire motherboard that we have ever seen, outside of reference hardware that came directly from ATi. This means that it has a pair of ...

Asus is one of the first motherboard manufacturers to use the new Nvidia nForce4 SLI X16 chipset which supports AMD Athlon 64 processors in its Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe. The original Nvidia nForce4 SLI chipset had a ...

Sapphire is going for the jugular with its PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 motherboard, which is such a new model that we got our hands on one of only three samples in the UK. While the exact details ...

The first thing that hits you when you open the Asus P5LD2 Deluxe box is, "How have they managed to fit a motherboard in this box?" Because this, the WiFi-TV Edition of the P5LD2 Deluxe, just ...